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Towards an interconnected history of World War I: Europe and beyond
(Brill, 2016)In recent years, the historiography of World War I has undergone a very significant transformation in terms of its geographical scope and thematic reach. While most studies of World War I up to the 1990s focused on ... -
Past practice into future policy: A model for historical reflection in the humanitarian sector
(Manchester University Press, 2019-05-01)This article describes the results of a pilot project on using historical reflection as a tool for policy-making in the humanitarian sector. It begins by establishing the rationale for integrating reflection into humanitarian ... -
Globalising the Easter Rising: 1916 and the challenge to empires
(Routledge, 2017-11-16)The year 1916 has recently been identified as “a tipping point for the intensification of protests, riots, uprisings and even revolutions.”1 Many of these constituted a challenge to the international pre-war order of ... -
From travel to mobility: Perspectives on journeys in the Russian, Central and East European past
(Routledge, 2019-03-28)This chapter introduces the “new mobilities paradigm” and argues for its application to the modern history of Russia, central and east Europe. It charts the emergence of this approach in the context of the more established ... -
Latecomers to reform? Catholic activism in the wake of the French wars of religion
(Studies, The Irish Jesuit Quarterly, 2017-11)100 years after Martin Luther wrote his Ninety-Five theses, France found itself on the cusp of an extraordinary period of Catholic ascendency. From the violence and bloodshed of four decades of civil war came an age of ... -
‘Found in a “dying” condition’: nurse-children in Ireland, 1872–1952
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Family and power: Incest and Ireland, 1880-1950
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Interrogating institutionalisation and child welfare: the Irish case, 1939–1991*
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-02-20)The topic of institutionalisation and child welfare in Ireland has garnered increasing national and international public and scholarly attention over the past twenty years. This is not an Irish phenomenon. Governments ... -
Parenting, poverty and the NSPCC in Ireland, 1889–1939
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)This chapter addresses a number of key questions surrounding parenting, poverty and the state in Ireland from 1889 to 1939.1 Concentrating on the period from the opening of the first Irish branch of the National Society ... -
‘Growing Up Poor’: child welfare, motherhood and the State during the First World War
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-11-23)In the history of child welfare in Ireland and other western countries, the period during the First World War coincided with a time of international attention on poor and working-class families and children. As this occurred ... -
Irish sources for Spenser's View
(The University of Chicago Press Journals, 2018-01-31)The first section of the View is widely understood to be influenced by the twelfth-century texts of Gerald of Wales, as transmitted by Richard Stanyhurst in his Plain and Perfect Description of Ireland included in Holinshed ... -
A crisis of lordship: Robert Ogle, Fifth Lord Ogle, and the rule of early Tudor Northumberland
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-03-23)Henry Tudor’s diffusion of power in the English far north, and his savage pruning of resources for his wardens there to maintain good rule and defence, were perhaps necessary steps initially to prevent further challenges ... -
Institutionalised for poverty: women's rights and child welfare in the Ireland, 1922-1996
(Jacobin, 2016-05-27)While referring to all citizens of the Republic, the oft-cited reference to the 1916 Proclamation and cherishing all the children of the nation equally holds much relevance when discussing the institutionalisation of ... -
Letters of Kuno Meyer to Douglas Hyde, 1896–1919
(Liverpool University Press, 2016-11)No single individual did more to make Irish respectable in the decades before and after 1900 than the great German scholar Kuno Meyer. But while Meyer s tireless activities as an editor and translator of Irish texts and ... -
'No Good Days But The Present Ones?' Readers' Letters to Woman's Way 1963-69
(Lilliput Press, 2015)[No abstract available]