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Administrative Staff

Professor Enrico Dal Lago
Head of Department
Head of School of History and Philosophy
Rm. 406, ext. 3546
enrico.dallago@nuigalway.ie

Ms Helena Condon
Administrator
Rm. 405, ext. 2537
helena.condon@nuigalway.ie

Academic Staff

	Dr. Gearóid Barry, B.A. (Moderatorship in History & Political Sciences), PhD. (University of Dublin) Head of First year, Exam Officer Room 401, ext. 3342, gearoid.barry@nuigalway.ie Research interests: Cultural and Political History of the First World War; History of Pacifism in the Euro-American World; History of Modern France; History of World Catholicism; Twentieth-Century European History; The First World War in Transnational Perspective; Vichy France.
‌	Dr. Sarah-Anne Buckley, B.A. PhD. (NUI) Room 408, ext. 4294, sarahanne.buckley@nuigalway.ie Research interests: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Irish Social History; History of Childhood and Youth; Gender History and Women's History; History of Institutions and Welfare; Twentieth-Century British History; History of Social Movements; Transnational History.

	Dr. Caitriona Clear, M.A., Ph.D. (NUI) Sabbatical Leave 2020-2021 Room 414, ext. 3099, caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie Research interests: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Women's History; Modern Irish Social History; History of Poverty, History of World Catholicism; Neglected Twentieth-Century Irish Writers; Modern European and Irish Social and Economic History; History of Poverty and Crime; Women's/Gender History; Oral History.
	Dr. Carmel Connolly Room 411, carmel.connolly@nuigalway.ie Research interests: Early Modern Atlantic World History; Black Women and Slavery, Teaching History through Art.
	Dr. John Cunningham Director of MA History Room 404, ext. 5642, john.cunningham@nuigalway.ie Research interests: Labour Biography; Transnational Syndicalism; Social Protest and Moral Economy; Irish Local History; History of Urban Galway; History of Irish Education; Modern Ireland; Labour Movements – Irish and Transnational.
	Professor Enrico Dal Lago, Laurea in Lettere (Roma), M.A. (Kansas), M.A., Ph.D. (Lond.), D.Litt.(NUI), MRIA Head of Department Room 406, ext. 3546, enrico.dallago@nuigalway.ie Research interests: Comparative History; Slavery and Unfree Labour; Antislavery and Abolitionism; The American Civil War in Comparative and Transnational Perspective; Nineteenth-Century Nationalism; Nineteenth-Century and Twentieth-Century United States; Italian National Unification; Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Italy
	Dr. Tomas Finn Room 312, ext. 2552, tomas.finn@nuigalway.ie Research interests: Modern Irish and British History and Politics; The Role of Intellectuals and civil society; Public Policy; Church-State Relations; Northern Ireland; Ireland since the Famine; Irish Political Thought; Skills for Historians.
	Professor Alison Forrestal, M.A. (NUI), Ph.D. (Manchester), MRIA Coordinator of new BA History, Social Media Officer Room 412, ext. 5629, alison.forrestal@nuigalway.ie Research interests: Early Modern History, c. 1400-1750, with Broad Expertise in the History of Catholicism; Religious Culture of Seventeenth-Century France; The Catholic Reformation; Bourbon Political and Social History; The Protestant Reformation.
	Dr. Mary Harris, B.A., M.A., H.Dip.Ed. (NUI), Ph.D. (Cantab.) Room 409, ext. 3290, mary.harris@nuigalway.ie Research interests: Culture and Politics in Early Twentieth-Century Ireland; Eoin MacNeill and the Gaelic Revival; Culture and Identity in Independent Ireland; Conflict and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland; Church, State, and Society in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Ireland; Irish Political Thought (1930s); Memoirs.
	Dr. Róisín Healy M.A., (NUI), M.A.G.E.S., Ph.D. (Georgetown) Director of Postgraduate Studies Room 415, ext. 2551, roisin.healy@nuigalway.ie Research interests: Prussian Poland, 1772-1918; Irish-Polish Relations 1772-Present; Colonialism within Modern Europe; Religion and Church-State Relations in Modern Central Europe; Modern European History; Nazi Germany; Coming to Terms with the Nazi Past; Irish Contacts with Continental Europe.
	Dr. Pádraig Lenihan Head of Final Year Room 403, ext. 5680, padraig.lenihan@nuigalway.ie Research interests: Seventeenth-Century Irish History; European Military History, 1618-1763; Neo-Latin Texts Pertaining to Ireland, 1641-1763; Seventeenth-Century Irish history; European Military History 1618-1763; Eighteenth Century Irish History; Technology and Social Change, 1780-1940
	Dr. Kimberly LoPrete, B.A. (Duke), M.A. (Notre Dame), Ph.D.(Chicago) Director of MA/PhD in Medieval Studies Room 407, ext. 3547, kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie Research interests: Social, Political and Cultural History of Medieval Europe, particularly Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century France; Aristocratic Women in Medieval Society; Gender and Lordship; The First Crusade and Crusading; Europeans' Travels in Asia; Medieval Historical Writing; Manuscripts, Codicology, Diplomacy, Transmission of Texts.
	Dr. Laurence Marley, M.A., PhD (NUI) Adult Education Officer Room 314, ext. 3791, laurence.marley@nuigalway.ie Research interests: Nineteenth-Century Irish History; Modern Anglo-Irish Relations: Irish Nationalism and British Democracy; Soldiers as Workers in Britain's Imperial Century; British Imperial Historiography; Party Politics and Political Radicalism in Nineteenth-Century Britain; Victorian Society; The Irish in Colonial Australasia.
	Dr. Niall Ó Ciosáin, B.A. (Dub.), Ph.D. (Eur.Univ.Inst.) Head of Second Year, Head of BA History (Single Honours) Room 410, ext. 3019, niall.ociosain@nuigalway.ie Research interests: Popular Literacy and Education in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Ireland and Europe; Literacy and Language Shift in Ireland, Britain and France; History of the Book, particularly Cheap Publishing; State Publications in the Nineteenth Century The Great Irish Famine.
	Dr. Kevin O' Sullivan B.A., Ph.D. (Dub.) Director of B.A. in History and Globalisation Studies Room 413, ext. 3625, kevin.k.osullivan@nuigalway.ie Research interests: History of Globalisation; Contemporary Irish History; Non-Governmental Organisations; Humanitarianism, Aid and Development; Global History; Contemporary Irish History; Modern African History.
	*Dr. Jackie Uí Chionna,* B.A (UCD), M.A.(UCC), H.Dip.Ed. (TCD), Ph.D. (NUIG.) Room 411. Email: jackie.uichionna@nuigalway.ie *Research interests:* Social and cultural history of Ireland since the Famine; Biography; History of Irish family businesses; History of Education; Oral history. History of intelligence and cryptography.

Emeritus Professors

Professor Nicholas Canny
Email: nicholas.canny@nuigalway.ie

Professor Steven Ellis
Email: steven.ellis@nuigalway.ie

Professor Dáibhí Ó Cróinín
Email: daibhi.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie

Professor Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh
Email: gearoid.otuathaigh@nuigalway.ie

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