academy for irish cultural heritages - Research - University of Ulster

ACADEMY FOR 

IRISH CULTURAL HERITAGES 

ANNUAL REPORT 

1 AUGUST 2006 - 31 JULY 2007

ACADEMY FOR 


ANNUAL REPORT 

1 August 2006 – 31 July 2007

ACADEMY FOR 


ANNUAL REPORT 

(1 AUGUST 2006 - 31 JULY 2007) 

CONTENTS 

Page No 

1. Foreword from the Pro Vice Chancellor (Research and Innovation) 2 

2. Foreword from the Director of the Research Institute 3 

3. Research Institute Members 5 

4. Staff Biographies 6 

5. Research Students 18 

6. Research Publications 23 

7. Research Funding 29 

8. Indicators of Esteem 30 

9. International Advisory Board 37

1. Foreword by the Pro Vice Chancellor 

(Research and Innovation) 

I am delighted to welcome readers to our annual 

reports from University of Ulster Research Institutes. 

We have had an excellent year marked by great 

achievements in recruiting superb researchers to 

academic and research posts, attracting external 

income and completing work that has led to highly 

prestigious papers, books and other outputs. There 

has been a very strong flow of research findings as 

new disclosures to our Office of Innovation. These 

are being managed as promising new intellectual 

property and that Office also ensures that the 

expertise of our staff is accessed by external 

organisations through consultancy contracts. Overall our Institutes provide high 

quality research environments that are strongly supportive of research. Our 

achievements point to improved research capacity and capability amongst the 

University’s staff – the best possible training environments for our increasing 

number of research students. We are very proud of every student who graduates 

with a doctoral degree and delighted that our statistics for successful completion 

rank very highly in UK national comparisons. 

This past year was marked by final preparations for the forthcoming UK Research 

Assessment Exercise (RAE). The work to be submitted for RAE has been underway 

since 2001, so some of it is detailed in the current Annual Reports. The University 

is proud of the quality of its RAE submission and looks forward confidently to the 

announcement of outcomes at the end of 2008. 

The enhanced research performance of recent years is in line with that planned 

for in our Strategy and Action Plan for Research, Research Training and Innovation, 

entitled SUPPORTIVe 1 . Developed through comprehensive, university-wide 

consultation, SUPPORTIVe articulates our commitment to ensuring that research 

at the University of Ulster fully supports our goals summarized as ‘excellence, 

innovation and regional engagement’. 

I commend this report to you as a demonstration that University of Ulster 

research ranks proudly amongst UK institutions; documents, analyses and shapes 

the modern Northern Ireland and attracts international recognition and awards. 

Professor Bernie Hannigan 

Pro Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation) 

1 

http://research.ulster.ac.uk/office/supportive.pdf

2. Foreword by the Research Institute 

Director 2004-2009 

 

 

Interdisciplinary research is the primary focus of the 

Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages (AICH), which 

was established with SPUR funding in December 2000. 

In setting up the Academy, the University of Ulster was 

making a key commitment to originality and innovation in 

scholarship and research in the field of cultural heritages, 

both Irish and international. 

But how is interdisciplinary research defined, and 

why is it so confusing Many established researchers 

find it difficult to cope with terms such as ‘inter-’ and 

‘multidisciplinarity’, but clearly they are not the same. A multidisciplinary project 

draws on several disciplines, but it does not radically re-define the theoretical 

canon of any single discipline. A multidisciplinary research team may involve 

researchers from several different disciplines. However, each researcher may 

continue to operate with rigour within his or her own disciplinary framework. 

In such circumstances, it is the combination of single-disciplinary skills and 

insights that generates a multidisciplinary outcome, but usually one can recognize 

distinctive disciplinary contributions in the end product. 

In contrast, an interdisciplinary project works across disciplines and breaks down 

traditional subject boundaries. An interdisciplinary assignment can, in theory, 

be completed by a single individual who works across different disciplines and 

combines methodologies in a radically new manner. The result, however, may be 

very difficult to attribute to any single-disciplinary framework. Interdisciplinary 

research may eventually generate new fields of research which cannot be easily 

classified within the current disciplinary framework. 

The difference between the two approaches was noted in the Academy report 

last year. I drew attention to a response in the post-RAE 1996 consultation 

process which pointed out that many projects described as interdisciplinary in the 

previous assessment would ‘more properly be termed “multidisciplinary”, since 

they bring together researchers from different subject disciplines on projects 

which essentially do not re-draw the subject map.’ That response identified 

other characteristics of interdisciplinarity: ‘where researchers work between and 

across disciplines, drawing innovatively on the subject matter and methodologies 

of more than one subject, or where a larger body of work which is similarly based 

has claims to be treated as a discrete emerging discipline in its own right’. 

Generally speaking, clearly defined disciplines have institutional status and 

privilege. They are easy for institutions to cope with. Interdisciplinary research 

is more difficult to characterize and support institutionally – although ultimately 

such research may generate entirely new and paradigm-shifting results. The Irish 

geographer Anne Buttimer, in her analysis of the life-cycles of various disciplines, 

once characterized the early stages of an emerging field of research as the 

Phoenix period ‘when new life emerges from the ashes with prospects for a 

fresh beginning’. This emancipatory movement can involve a cry for freedom from 

oppression or constitute an attempt ‘to soar to new heights of understanding, 

being and becoming’. It is usually followed by a ‘Faustian’ disciplining of the field 

in the process of gaining legitimacy in academic circles. Energies are directed 

towards ‘the building of structures, institutions and legal guarantees for their 

autonomous existence and identity.’ (Buttimer 1992: 43)

In the current context of research assessment exercises in the UK, it is a very 

brave university that maintains a strong commitment to interdisciplinarity. While, 

in theory, the RAE deems itself to be capable of dealing with interdisciplinary 

research, the reality is that each individual is assigned in the first instance to a 

single panel for assessment, and interdisciplinarity is generally dealt with within 

a single-subject context – although guidance may be sought from other panels. 

However, a new approach to assessment of research may well change the singlesubject 

context and, at this point, it would appear that interdisciplinary research 

could strongly benefit from a revised approach and become far more central to 

the system. 

In the case of the University of Ulster, the Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages 

provides the necessary structures for supporting and energizing research ideas 

and themes in the field of heritage. Some 30 researchers and 40 PhD students 

are located within the Academy, which is based in three campi of the university 

– Magee, Coleraine and Jordanstown. Members have contributed strongly to the 

RAE in the following subject areas: Art and Design, Celtic Studies, English, French, 

History, Music and Politics. 

The Academy actively promotes three prominent research themes which have 

catalysed the individual research interests of its members: oral and written 

heritages; cultural encounters; and, habitat and habitus. Through these themes 

and its various externally funded research projects, the Academy has a strong 

and growing international profile, reflecting the successful pursuit of its central 

aim: ‘to be an internationally recognized centre of excellence for interdisciplinary 

research on cultural heritages, both material and non-material, in an international 

context with particular emphasis on cultural heritages connected with the island 

of Ireland’. 

The present report features the research activities of AICH staff and postgraduate 

research students in the academic year 2006-2007, and details of the members of 

our international advisory board. Further details of the Academy’s activities can 

be found at http://www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/research/aich/ 

Professor Máiréad Nic Craith 

Director 

http://www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/research/aich/index.htm

3. Research Institute Members 

Surname Forename Title Position 

Arthur Paul Prof Professor 

Blackstock Allan Dr Reader 

Crooke Elizabeth Dr Senior Lecturer 

Davies Paul Dr Reader 

Delargy Mary Mrs Research Associate 

Ferrario Maria Dr Research Associate 

Gargett Graham Prof Professor 

Garnham Neal Dr Senior Lecturer 

Gilligan Chris Dr Lecturer 

Jamison Anne Dr Editorial Assistant 

Jones Greta Prof Professor 

Kelly William Dr Lecturer 

Kennedy-Andrews Elmer Prof Professor 

Koch Max Dr Lecturer 

Kockel Ullrich Prof Professor 

Loughlin James Dr Reader 

McCann Anthony Dr Lecturer 

McConnel James Dr Lecturer 

McKee Jane Dr Senior Lecturer 

Murphy Willa Dr Lectureship 

Nic Craith Máiréad Prof Professor 

O Ciardha Eamonn Dr Lecturer 

O’Connor Peter Dr Senior Lecturer 

Odhianbo Elly Mr Research Associate 

Patterson Henry Prof Professor 

Stapleton Karyn Dr Research Associate 

Welch Robert Prof Dean of the Faculty of Arts 

Wilson John Prof Director of the Institute of Ulster-Scots Studies

4. Staff Biographies 

Prof Paul Arthur 

Paul Arthur is a Professor of Politics and Director of the Graduate Programme in Peace and Conflict Studies at 

the University of Ulster. He holds a BA and MSSc from Queen’s University Belfast and a D.Litt. from the National 

University of Ireland. He is the author of five books - the latest being Special Relationships: Britain, Ireland and the 

Northern Ireland problem (2001) - and circa seventy peer-reviewed articles. He has extensive media experience 

in Ireland, Britain and the United States including two years as an op-ed writer for the Irish Times as well as being 

Ulster Television’s regular political analyst. He has contributed to the Times, New York Times, Observer, Sunday 

Independent and Guardian. 

He has lectured extensively in Europe and the United States. In 1997-98 he held a Senior Fellowship at the United 

States Institute of Peace (USIP) in Washington DC where his research was in Track Two Diplomacy. He has also 

held the Jefferson Smurfit Distinguished Fellowship in Irish Studies at the University of Missouri (2000). He has 

acted in a consultancy capacity for the United Nations Research Institute in Social Development (UNRISD) on 

political violence, and the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee at the House of Commons on an enquiry on 

“Dealing with the Past”. He sits on a number of International Advisory Boards including the “Project on Justice in 

Times of Transition” in New York, “Fusion” in Bogota, “The Global Majority” in Monterey (Ca), and the William 

Jefferson Clinton Institute in Dublin. He has been involved in a series of problem-solving workshops in Colombia, 

Guatemala, Sri Lanka, Palestine and Macedonia. In the past year he has been involved in background discussions 

with the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka and delegations from Georgia, Iraq and Israel/Palestine when they have visited 

Northern Ireland. 

Since 1990 he has participated in many Track Two initiatives with Northern Ireland’s political parties in Europe, the 

United States and South Africa. 

Dr Allan Blackstock 

Allan Blackstock was born in Belfast where, after a working in industry, he entered third level education as a 

mature student. After graduation, he worked for a period as an archivist in the Public Record Office of Northern 

Ireland and has also provided historical consultancy for various museums. He taught at Queen’s University Belfast 

(QUB) in the School of Modern History and the Institute of Irish Studies before joining the University of Ulster in 

2002 where, in addition to conventional teaching, he has been involved in developing e-learning programmes in Irish 

Cultural Heritages. He was promoted to Reader in Irish Cultural Heritages in 2005. In 2001 he was elected Fellow 

of the Royal Historical Society and in 2006 to the editorial board of the Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies. 

Qualifications 

He graduated with a BA (hons) degree in English and Modern History at QUB in 1988 where he also completed 

his PhD in 1993 and gained a Postgraduate Certificate in Education in 1995. He also attained an Adult and Further 

Education Teacher’s Certificate at the Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education in 1990. In 2005 he gained a 

certificate in e-tutoring. 

Research Fields 

Loyalism in Ireland, 1789-1869 

Irish social and military history, c1770-1830 

Popular protest in Ireland and Britain, c1760-1850 

Sociability: Irish intellectual Clubs and Societies, 18th and 19th centuries. 

Book and publication history in Ireland 

Dr Elizabeth Crooke 

Elizabeth joined the University of Ulster in 2001 and is now Senior Lecturer in Museum and Heritage Studies. She

ead Geography and Economics at Trinity College Dublin and undertook an MPhil in Archaeological Heritage and 

Museum Studies at Department of Archaeology Cambridge University, where she later completed her PhD. 

Elizabeth is responsible for the postgraduate programmes in museum and heritage studies, one on the Belfast 

campus and the by other distance learning. She supervises PhD students in museum and heritage studies. Elizabeth 

represents the University of Ulster on committees in the Heritage Council (Ireland) and Northern Ireland 

Museums Council. She is also involved with various initiatives with local museums, such as exhibitions and research 

projects. She held the post of Museum Officer in Fermanagh County Museum and has worked for the National 

Trust. 

Elizabeth’s publications include Museums and Community (Routledge 2007) and Politics, Museums and the 

Creation of a National Museum of Ireland (Royal Irish Academy 2000). 

Education 

PhD Cambridge University (British Academy scholarship) MPhil Archaeological Heritage and Museums, Cambridge 

University BA (Hons) Geography and Economics, Trinity College Dublin 


Museums and community 

History of collecting and collections 

Representation of contested histories in museums and as heritage 

Dr Paul Davies 

My teaching specialisms are in Romanticism, 20th Century English and European literature, and contemporary 

anglophone literature, and contemporary critical and cultural theory. I also have interests in Beat writing and 

countercultural writing and music. I coordinate and lecture on modules in Contemporary Writing, Contemporary 

Cultural Theory, Romantic Movement Poetry and Theory, Romantics and Victorians, Nineteenth and 20th Century 

Literature, Modernism, and Modern Irish Literature 


Samuel Beckett studies (over fifteen years’ internationally recognised publications and conference contributions); 

Romanticism; 

Esotericism and spiritual languages in contemporary theory; 

Ecocriticism in contemporary theory. 

Mrs Mary Delargy 

Before joining the University of Ulster in 2001, Mary Delargy was a librarian at the Linen Hall library in Belfast. 

Having worked both as a cross-community Irish teacher and established library services for the Ulster-Scots 

community in Belfast, her natural home at the University is in the Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages with its 

emphasis on all the heritages of the island of Ireland. 

Current research focuses on ethnic minorities in the public space, how minority communities are perceived by 

the host community and how they feel that they can best make use of the public space to give themselves a visible 

presence in the host community for example through festivals and other cultural events. Much of the research 

involves conducting interviews with members of minority ethnic communities about their experiences of life in 

Northern Ireland. PhD thesis (commenced October 2005) explores the issue of British and Irish identity among 

minority communities in Northern Ireland. Just completed researching teaching multiculturalism in three schools in 

the Derry City Council area. (Community Relations Council funded project). 


B.A. (HONS) Celtic Languages and Literature Queen’s University Belfast 

Postgraduate Diploma in Library and Information Studies. Queen’s University Belfast 

MSSc Irish Studies. Queen’s University Belfast


Minority Communities in the Public Space 

Teaching Multiculturalism in Northern Ireland Schools 

Linguistic links between Ulster and Scotland 

Dr Elizabeth Doherty 

Liz Doherty, from Buncrana, Co. Donegal was appointed Irish Traditional Music Lecturer at the School of Creative 

Arts, University of Ulster in 2007. She previously held a full-time lecturing position in the Music Department, 

University College, Cork (1992-2001) and has been a visiting lecturer at the Instituto Universitario Irlandeses, 

Amergin, La Coruna, Irish World Music and Dance Academy, University of Limerick, University of Newcastle 

Upon Tyne, England, University of the Highland and Islands, Scotland, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, 

Scotland, Cape Breton University, Canada and National University of Australia. In 2001 she was appointed Edwards 

Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Arts at Marshall University, West Virginia and was also a Visiting Fellow at 

the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. From 2005-2007 Liz has been 

Traditional Arts Specialist with the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon with responsibility for developing and 

implementing national policy for the traditional arts. She is also a noted fiddle player with several recordings to her 

credit (including Quare Imagaination, Busy Lizzy Records, 2002 and Last Orders, 1999). She has toured extensively 

as a solo artist and with various bands and shows. Liz has also won several awards including the Fleishmann Prize 

for outstanding contribution to music in Ireland (2000). 


Liz Doherty graduated from University College, Cork with a B Mus in 1991 and University of Limerick with a PhD 

in 1996. Her PhD dissertation was entitled ‘The Paradox of the Periphery – Evolution of the Cape Breton Fiddle 

Tradition c1928-1995.’ 


Irish, Scottish, Canadian and related fiddle traditions 

The dance tradition as it relates to fiddle repertoires and styles 

Performance issues for traditional artists 

Gender issues within traditional music circles 

Collectors and collections of traditional music 

National policies for the support and recognition of traditional arts 

Dr Maria Angela Ferrario 

Dr M.A. Ferrario is an Italian national who has been living in Ireland for over a decade. After obtaining a degree in 

Philosophy in 1995, she left Milan for Dublin where she completed an MSc in Multimedia Systems at Trinity College 

Dublin. In February 2002, shortly after completing a PhD in Computer Science at University College Dublin, 

she moved to Donegal to work as an Information Technology Officer with the non-profit cross-border agency 

ERNACT (European Regional Network for Application of Communication Technologies). 

Her responsibilities included liaising, informing, and networking with senior representatives of public agencies at 

local, departmental and national level. She lead a number of projects which involved managing and liaising with 

private consultancy companies, educational institutions, community groups and public sectors from a range of 

European Countries. She joined AICH as an Associate Researcher in Heritage in July 2006, since then her key 

responsibilities included the planning, organisation and communication of the Northbound symposia series and 

SIEF2008, International Congress of Ethnology and Folklore 


Ph.D. Intelligent On-line Applications, Computer Science Department, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, 

Ireland 

MSc. Multimedia Systems, Trinity College Dublin, Engineering Department, College Green, Dublin, Ireland 

B.A. (Hons.) in Philosophy, Social Communications & Media Studies, Catholic University of Milan.


Migration Networks, 

European Cultural Heritages 

Digital Cultures 

Information Society andE-government 

Collaborative Knowledge Management 

Prof Graham Gargett 

Graham Gargett was born and brought up in the North East of England. After studying at Reading and Norwich, 

he taught English for several years in Dijon and Paris. Appointed Lecturer in West European Studies at the New 

University of Ulster, he was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1981. In the late 1970s and early 1980s he was active 

in forming twinning links between Coleraine and La Roche-sur-Yon, being Vice-Chairman of the Coleraine Twinning 

Association 1981-4. In 1984 he became Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Ulster and in 1999 was 

awarded a Personal Chair as Professor of French Culture and Ideas. He was President of the Eighteenth-Century 

Ireland Society/Cumann Eire san Octu Cead Deag 2000-2006 and was elected to the Royal Irish Academy in March 

2006 

Qaulifications 

He graduated with a degree in French Studies at the University of Reading in 1967, then studied for a Ph.D. at the 

University of East Anglia on the subject of ‘Voltaire and Protestantism’ (awarded 1974). 


Voltaire, the philosophes, and the literature and ideas of eighteenth-century France - the ‘Counter-Enlightenment’ in 

eighteenth-century France, in particular the abbé Trublet and the abbé Bergier; 

enlightened Protestantism’ in eighteenth-century France, Switzerland and Ireland, especially Jacob Vernet; 

the struggle to regain civil rights for French Huguenots, especially by Gilbert de Voisins; 

the influence of the French Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Ireland - Jean-Pierre Droz and A Literary Journal 

(1744-9); 

French influences on Oliver Goldsmith, particularly Voltaire 

Dr Neal Garnham 

Neal Garnham is a senior lecturer in history at the University of Ulster. He has previously worked at universities in 

Belfast, Oxford and Sunderland. 


Neal holds a bachelor’s degree and a doctorate in history from the University of Ulster. 


Neal’s research interests include sport, popular culture, and aspects of the law in Ireland and England. 

Dr Anne Jamison 

Anne Jamison is a lecturer in the School of Languages and Literature. She joined the University of Ulster in 

2005 as Editorial Assistant to Professors Robert Welch and Brian Walker’s ‘History of the Irish Book’ project 

- a 5 volume series they are producing for Oxford University Press. In 2007 she was appointed to a lectureship. 

Previous to joining UU, she was a research fellow in the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s University Belfast, 

where she developed an online archive of parts of the Somerville and Ross papers held in the Special Collections 

library at Queen’s. In 2006 she was appointed Visiting Fellow in the Women’s Studies department at the University 

of Limerick where she worked on the Kate O’Brien archive as part of the department’s ‘Gender, Memory, and 

Modernity’ research group. In 2006 she also organised an exhibition of the Somerville and Ross archive in the 

Visitors Centre at Queen’s, which ran from October to December, and is due to travel to University College Cork 

in 2007.


She studied at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland for an honours degree in English Literature and graduated 

from there in 2000. She then moved on to Queen’s University Belfast to complete a Master’s degree in Irish Writing 

(2001) and a Ph.D. on nineteenth-century Irish writers E. Œ. Somerville and Martin Ross (2004). 


Her main research areas are in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Irish women’s writing; literary 

production and the socio-cultural representation of women’s texts in Ireland and Britain; and legal, technological 

and literary theories of authorship. She is currently working on a monograph of E. Œ. Somerville and Martin Ross 

for publication with Cork University Press (2008), and her most recent journal publications have focussed on issues 

of law and authorship. 

Prof Greta Jones 

Greta Jones is a member of the history department. She has taught at Jordanstown since 1976 and before then was 

a research associate at the University of Leicester 


Greta Jones has an honours degree in Medieval and Modern History from University College London and a Ph.D 

from the London School of Economics. Her Ph.D became the book Social Darwinism and English Thought published 

by Harvester in 1980 and was the key to the award of a Mellon Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania 1982-3. 

During this time she completed the book Social Hygiene in Twentieth Century Britain ( Croom Helm 1986) Greta 

also held the Morris Ginsberg Fellowship at the London School of Economics in 1986. This allowed her to finish 

Science Politics and the Cold War (Routledge 1988). She was visiting fellow at Corpus Christi College Cambridge in 

1990. She has been a member of the editorial board of Social History of Medicine published by Oxford University 

Press and the holder of several grants from the Wellcome Trust for the History of Medicine. 


Greta’s primary research interests are in nineteenth century cultural and intellectual history , particularly 

Darwinism and in the history of nineteenth and twentieth century science and medicine. She has recently been 

awarded a grant , in conjunction with University College Dublin, from the Wellcome Trust to set up a centre for the 

history of medicine in Ireland. This will involve a five year programme of appointments and activities to promote 

the subject.. Her most recent work in the history of medicine in Ireland is a study of medical migration to and from 

Ireland 1860-1960. 

Dr William Kelly 

Dr Kelly was born in Derry in 1954 and attended St Columb’s College, Trinity College Dublin and the University of 

Cambridge. He has worked for the Royal Historical Society, and the University of Ulster. 


Ph.D. in History, University of Cambridge 

B.A. (Hons) in Modern History, Trinity College, Dublin 

Winner of the Cluff Memorial Prize 


Dr Kelly’s primary research interests are in early modern Irish and British History. Dr Kelly is Managing Editor of 

the translation of the Commentarius Rinuccinianus, the papal nuncio’s account of his time in Ireland between 1645- 

1649 and is one of the key sources for the study of early modern Ireland and Britain and diplomatic relationships 

with Europe. Dr Kelly also manages the translation of the Historia, another key source for the history of Ireland in 

the mid-seventeenth century. Both projects are funded by the Department of Arts Sport & Tourism in the Republic 

of Ireland. As Assistant Director of the Institute of Ulster Scots Studies he is particularly interested in the role of 

the Scots in Ulster in the seventeenth century. 

 

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Prof Elmer Kennedy-Andrews 

Elmer Kennedy-Andrews grew up in Northern Ireland. He studied English at Queen’s University, Belfast, where as 

an undergraduate he was a Queen’s Scholar, holding both the Porter and Foundation scholarships. He also took his 

Masters and doctorate at Queen’s. 

Prior to his appointment to the University of Ulster, he taught in several schools in Northern Ireland and at the 

University of Thessalonki in Greece and Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco. In 1994 he was made Senior 

Lecturer in English at the University of Ulster, and in 2004 became Head of the Research Graduate School in the 

Faculty of Arts. In 2005 he was appointed to a personal chair in English Literature. 

His main research interest is in modern and contemporary Irish literature in English. Since 1989 he has been 

Course Director for the PGDip/MA in Irish Literature in English. His undergraduate teaching covers both Irish and 

American literature, and he has a particular interest in the relationships between the two literatures. 

Since 1998 he has been in charge of the biennial international Ulster Symposium on Irish poets held at Coleraine, 

and has edited the proceedings of each symposium for publication in book form, as part of the Ulster Editions & 

Monographs series published by Colin Smythe Ltd. Publications emanating from symposia so far include: Modern 

Irish Writers and the Wars (1999), Louis MacNeice and his Influence (1999), The Poetry of Michael Longley (2000), 

The Poetry of Derek Mahon (2002) and Paul Muldoon: Poetry, Prose, Drama, A Collection of Critical Essays (2006). 

He is currently preparing volumes on Ciaran Carson and John Montague. 


Ph.D.: ‘American Black Activist Drama in the 1960s’, Queen’s University Belfast 

M.A:. ‘A Comparison between European and American Absurdist Drama’, Queen’s University Belfast 

B.A. (Hons) in English Language and Literature, Queen’s University Belfast. 


Contemporary Irish Literature in English 

American Literature 

Prof Ullrich Kockel 

A native of Göttingen, Germany, Ullrich Kockel was appointed Professor of Ethnology and Folk Life at the 

University of Ulster’s Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages in 2005. In the 1980s, following an earlier career in 

industry, he held research and teaching appointments at Hochschule Bremen, Leeds Polytechnic, University College 

Galway, the University of Liverpool and the University of Glasgow. He lectured at the University of Liverpool’s 

Institute of Irish Studies and the Department of Geography at University College Cork between 1989 and 1999, 

when he was appointed to a Chair in European Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol, where he 

remains a Visiting Professor. At the University of Ulster, he is a member of the School of Languages and Literature 

and was Acting Head of the Arts Faculty’s Research Graduate School in 2006. He is an Academician of the Academy 

of Social Sciences and an active member of national and international scholarly associations in the fields of 

anthropology, ethnology and folk life. 


He graduated in European Studies (Finance and Accounting) from Leeds Polytechnic and in Business Economics 

from Hochschule Bremen in 1984. In 1985 he won a PhD studentship at the University of Liverpool’s Faculty 

of Social and Environmental Studies with a project on culture and economy in the West of Ireland, which he 

completed in 1988. During the 1980s, he also studied by distance learning for certificates in philosophy, psychology 

and education, for which he gained distinctions. 


European ethnology, economic anthropology, human ecology, heritage tourism, reflexive traditions, counter-cultural 

movements, and cultural encounters. He has undertaken fieldwork across Europe, especially in Ireland, Britain, 

Germany, Finland, Spain and Lithuania, and also has a keen interest in interdisciplinary research and intercultural 

philosophy. 

 

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Dr James Loughlin 

James Loughlin is a Reader in the School of History and International Affairs. Before joining the University of 

Ulster, in 1988, he held the posts of Junior Research Fellow and then Senior Research Fellow (funded by the ESRC) 

at the Institute of Irish Studies. 


BA(Hons) History and Politics, Ulster College, Northern Ireland Polytechnic 

PhD, Trinity College Dublin 

Research Interests 

Home Rule 

Ulster Unionist Identity 

British monarchy and Ireland 

State formation in Northern Ireland 

Dr Anthony McCann 

Born in Magherafelt Co. Derry, and raised in Warrenpoint, Co. Down, Anthony McCann works as Lecturer in 

Contemporary Folk Culture at the Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages of the University of Ulster. He has 

previously held positions at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam 

University, and the University of Limerick. In 1999 he acted as assistant coordinator of a UNESCO/Smithsonian 

World Conference in Washington DC entitled “A Global Assessment of the 1989 UNESCO Recommendation on 

the Safeguarding of Traditional Culture and Folklore: Local Empowerment and International Cooperation”. Anthony 

undertook postdoctoral research at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage of the Smithsonian Institution in 

Washington DC from 2001-2002. 


Anthony is a graduate of Queen’s University Belfast (B.A. Joint Honours, Celtic Studies and Spanish), University 

College Galway (M.Phil, Irish Studies), and the University of Limerick (Ph.D., Ethnomusicology). His Ph.D. 

research, completed in 2002, focused on the expansionary character of the operations of the Irish Music Rights 

Organisation, a performing rights collection agency, from 1995-2000. 


Personal and Political Dynamics of Enclosure 

The Politics of Gentleness 

Critical Legal Studies/Anthropology of Law: Music, copyright, and intellectual property 

Cultural Policy and Heritage Studies 

Craft and Crafting in the Folk and Healing Arts 

Dr James McConnel 

James McConnel was appointed Lecturer in History at the University of Ulster in January 2006. Previously he 

worked as a research assistant for the University of Hertfordshire and University of Wales, Bangor on an ESRCfunded 

project on Welsh devolution. He first came to the University of Ulster in 2005 as a research associate at 

the Institute of Ulster Scots Studies. He was a visiting professor at the University of Indiana South Bend during 

autumn 2006. 


He read history at the University of Sheffield (1996), before studying for an MA (1998) and a PhD (2002) at the 

University of Durham. His doctoral research examined nationalist politics in Ireland before the Great War. 


His main research interest is the Irish home rule movement between 1870 and 1922, though he has recently 

developed an interest in unionism through a study of Ulster protestant commemoration of November 5. He is 

currently researching a biography of the Irish nationalist leader John Redmond. 

 

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Dr Jane McKee 

Jane McKee grew up in North Antrim and studied at Trinity College Dublin before being appointed in 1973 to the 

staff of St Patrick’s College, Maynooth where she taught until December 1985. In January 1986 she joined the staff 

of the University of Ulster (Magee campus) where she is today a Senior Lecturer in French. She has served on the 

University Council and is currently a member of the University Senate. 


She read French and Spanish at Tinity College Dublin and graduated in 1969. Her Ph.D. (‘The Humanism of 

Romain Gary’), was also completed at Trinity College 

Research 

Current research is focused on the correspondences of the seventeenth century clergyman Charles Drelincourt 

and on his sons and she has also published papers on Charles Drelincourt and two of his sons, Laurent, the last of 

the Huguenot poets and Pierre who became Dean of Armagh in 1691. She has also published on French Huguenot 

and Enlightenment holdings in Irish church libraries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 

Before 1991 her research and publication was mostly in the area of Computer-assisted language learning 

She has also run a number of research projects and published articles on aspects of teaching, including distance 

learning, the integration of key skills into the languages curriculum and tandem learning. She was a member 

of the Ulster team involved in the FDTL-funded SMILE project (Strategies for Managing Independent Learning 

Environments). 

Dr Willa Murphy 

Willa Murphy was born and grew up North of Boston, Massachusetts, and studied English at Brigham Young 

University in Provo, Utah. She obtained an MA in theology and a PhD in English from the University of Notre 

Dame in South Bend, Indiana. Before her appointment to the University of Ulster, she was a Research Fellow in 

Women’s Studies at the University of Limerick, and had also taught English and theology at NUI-Maynooth and 

at St Patrick’s College, Dublin City University. She is currently Lecturer in Irish Writing in English in the Academy 

for Irish Cultural Heritages, University of Ulster. Her main field of research is nineteenth-century Irish writing 

in English, with particular attention to women’s writing. She is also interested in the intersection of literature 

and religious language, and is currently researching connections between evangelicalism and women’s writing in 

nineteenth-century Ireland. Her teaching includes these topics, but also extends to contemporary women’s writing, 

colonial and nineteenth-century American literature, and feminist and post-colonial theory. 


PhD, University of Notre Dame, 2001; 

MA, English, University of Notre Dame, 1994); 

MA, Systematic Theology, Notre Dame, 1990; 

BA (Honors), English, Brigham Young University, 1989 

Research Interests 

Nineteenth Century Irish and English writing 

Nineteenth Century American writing 

Critical Theory (particularly feminism and post-colonialism) 

Religion and Literature Twentieth Century 

Irish Women’s Writing 

Prof Máiréad Nic Craith 

Professor Máiréad Nic Craith is Director of the Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages at the University of Ulster 

(Northern Ireland). She has previously held an Irish-Government sponsored post at the University of Liverpool 

and tutored at University College Cork. She also held a visiting fellowship at the Department of Politics in 

University College Dublin. Máiréad’s research draws on the social sciences and is interdisciplinary. She is author 

 

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and editor of 10 books and a considerable number of essays. In 2004, she was joint winner of the Ruth Michaelis- 

Jena Ratcliff research prize for folklife. Two years later, she was awarded a Senior Distinguished Research Fellowship 

at the University of Ulster, She is a member of the sub-panel for European Studies in the current Research 

Assessment Exercise. 


PhD Anglicisation and culture contact in nineteenth-century Cork. 

MA (first class honours) Memoirs of Tomás Ó Criomhthain 

BA (hons) Philosophy, Irish 

BEd (hons) Education, Irish 

Research 

Culture and identity politics; 

Minority Languages; 

European Ethnology; 

Autobiography as a research tool 

Dr Emmet O’Connor 

Emmet O’Connor is a member of the School of History and International Affairs. 


O’Connor graduated from University College, Galway with a BA in history and politics in 1977. Following an MA 

in UCG in 1979, he worked with Combat Poverty in Waterford and then read for a PhD at St John’s College, 

Cambridge. After post-doctoral work at Churchill College, Cambridge, he joined the staff at Magee College in 1985. 


Emmet O’Connor’s primary research interest is labour history. He was co-editor of Saothar in 1983 and 1984 and 

from 1986 to 2002, and is an honorary president of the Irish Labour History Society. 

Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha 

Dr. Éamonn Ó Ciardha, a native of County Monaghan, holds an M.A from the N.U.I. and a Ph.D from Cambridge 

University. He has published articles on Irish Jacobitism, law, order and disorder and the use of Irish-language 

sources for seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ireland. Formerly a research fellow in the School of History, 

University of Aberdeen, visiting Professor of History at St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto, and the Keough 

Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame, he held a government of Ireland post-doctoral fellowship at 

the School of History, Trinity College Dublin. He is is now a lecturer in the School of History and International 

Affairs, University of Ulster. 


PhD, Clare Hall, Cambridge University 

MA, University College Dublin 

BA, University College Dublin (History/Irish). 


Éamonn’s research interests focus on early modern Irish History, Jacobitism, the Irish Diaspora in 17th and 18th 

Century Europe, the Irish Outlaw, Irish military history and the history of the Irish book (in Irish) since 1567. 

Mr Elly Omondi Odhiambo 

Elly Ohiambo is a Kenyan researcher and analyst (international affairs and corporate responsibility). On completing 

his Masters degree in Peace Studies at the University of Ulster, Elly did community development work in Nairobi, 

 

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Kenya. He worked as a Research Officer in the theme of Corporate Social Responsibility for Ufadhili Trust, a 

leading Centre for the research and advocacy of philanthropy and ethical entrepreneurship in East and Central 

Africa. He has also been involved in civic education of rural and urban communities on the subject of contested 

constitutional reforms in Kenya. He has been a module coordinator at the School of Sociology (University of 

Ulster, Magee) where he taught development (Africa in Transition). In his work as a freelance commentator, Elly 

has written articles on politics of Africa, globalization and race relations issues in Europe. He currently provides 

editorial analysis for ‘The African Channel’, a London based media group. Elly is currently working on Giving Voice 

to New Voices an ongoing research project which will explore the manner in which the African community can 

articulate its views and become involved with local communities as well as with political representatives. This 

project is supported and funded by the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council and the European Union 

Programme for Peace and Reconciliation. 


BA (hons) degree in Politics at the University of East London, UEL in 1998. 

MA in Peace Studies at the University of Ulster in 2002. 


‘Third’ World Politics and Development - Deconstructing the caricature of the ‘Third world’ 

Corporate Social Responsibility-Correcting myths of Corporate Social Responsibility 

Conflict Resolution 

Race Relations in Europe 

Migration 

Poverty Issues 

Prof Henry Patterson 

Professor Patterson was an undergraduate at Queen’s University Belfast where he obtained a first class honours 

degree in Economic and Social History. He was subsequently a postgraduate student at Nuffield College Oxford. 

After a research fellowship at the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s he obtained in lectureship in the School of 

History, Philosophy and Politics at the Ulster Polytechnic in 1976. With the creation of UU in 1984 he became a 

lecturer in Politics and has been Professor of Politics since 1995. 


His main areas of research are the politics of Northern Ireland and the Republic, North-South relations, the labour 

movement, Republicanism, Ulster Unionism and Orangeism. His most recent research project was an ESRC funded 

study of Unionism and Orangeism in Northern Ireland since 1945. The results of that research will be published as 

a book in Manchester University Press’s Devolution series in 2007. His current research is on the experience of 

Protestants in Fermanagh during the Troubles. 

Dr Loredana Salis 

Loredana was born in Italy and graduated there in 1997. In 1996 she was awarded a EU grant and spent twelve 

months on the Erasmus exchange programme c/o the English Department at the University of Manchester, UK. 

She has lived in UK since 1998, at first in Manchester, where she taught Italian in a private school, and then in 


In 1999, she was awarded a grant from the Sardinian Department of Education, and was admitted to the MA in 

Irish Literature in English at the University of Ulster. In 2005 she completed her PhD at the University of Ulster, 

and later worked on the ‘Heritage Network’ project, a faculty inventory on heritages commissioned by the 

AICH. In 2006 she was offered a post as research associate on a co-financed project between the Università di 

Sassari and the Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages, University of Ulster. Her tasks include research as well as 

contributing to Northbound, a series of symposia organised by the AICH on the established and the new migrant 

communities in Northern Ireland. 

 

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BA Hons (cum laude) in Foreign Languages and Literatures at the Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere, 

Università di Sassari (Italy). 

MA in Irish Literature in English at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. 

PhD at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. She wrote her doctoral thesis on the use of Greek tragedy in 

contemporary Irish drama from the late 1970s to date. 


Dr Salis is currently doing research on the representation of the ‘Other’ in contemporary Irish literature. While at 

the Academy she will develop the theme of contemporary migration from a literary perspective, which is a vastly 

under-represented research area and ties in with a number of other researchers in AICH who are working in the 

area of migration. In addition, she is expanding her doctoral research in view of a publication on the use of Greek 

Tragedy in contemporary Irish drama in the Italian language 

Dr Karyn Stapleton 

Dr. Karyn Stapleton is a Lecturer in the School of Communication. Her core research involves the application of 

Discourse Analysis to issues of politics, culture and identity. Her recent research has focused on Northern Ireland, 

and she has a particular interest in Northern Irish unionism and Protestantism. Between 2001-2004, she was 

employed in the Institute of Ulster Scots Studies (UU), with which she retains strong research links. She has also 

been employed on two externally funded research projects. 

Karyn is a member of the International Communication Association (ICA); the British Psychological Society (BPS); 

the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA); and the European Parliamentary Network. She has recently coedited, 

with J. Wilson, a research volume entitled Devolution and Identity (Ashgate, 2006). 


BSc (Hons) (First class) Communication Studies 

D.Phil in Communication 


Discourse and Identity 

Political Discourse 

Cultural and National Identities 

Northern Irish Politics and Identity 

Unionism/Protestantism 

Ulster Scots 

Qualitative Methodologies 

Narrative Analysis 

Language and Gender 

Communities of Practice 

Gender Identity 

Prof Robert Welch 

Robert Welch is a literary historian, poet, and novelist. He is Professor of English and was previously Head of the 

School of English, Media and Theatre Studies. He lectured at Leeds University, University College, Cork, and at 

Ile-Ife University, Nigeria. He was a Visiting Fellow at St John’s College, Oxford; the Jefferson-Smurfitt Fellow at 

the University of Missouri, St Louis; and the Dal Grauer Lecturer at the University of British Columbia.. He is a 

Fellow of the English Association and is on the editorial board of the Canadian Journal for Irish Studies. He is a past 

President of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures. 


Honours degree in English and Irish; first class honours for an MA (by research) at UCC; and a PhD from the 

University of Leeds, supervised by A N Jeffares. 

 

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Main research is in: Irish literature of all periods in the two main languages of the traditions; translation and 

translation theory; literary history; cultural interactions in the European and global context. 

Prof John Wilson 

John Wilson is Professor of Communication and Director of the Institute of Ulster Scots Studies. His research 

focuses on the construction of linguistic meaning in varieties of everyday talk, drawing mainly on the fields of 

Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, and Sociolinguistics. He has published widely on a range of topics and has recently 

co-edited two research collections; Devolution and Identity (with K. Stapleton) and The Discourse of Europe (with 

S. Millar). He has obtained research funding from various government bodies and research councils, including the 

ESRC (1995 and 2003) and the Leverhulme Trust (2005). He is an elected member of the Consultation Board of 

the International Pragmatic Association, and a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations. 


BEd (Hons) Communication: The Ulster Polytechnic 

PhD Department of English, Queen’s University, Belfast 

MCIPR, Member of the Institute of Public Relations 


Sociolinguistics, 

Discourse and Politics, 

Pragmatics and Communication, 

Social Theory 

Intercultural Communication 

 

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5. Research Students 

Name 

Title of Project 

Grant Source 

barnes, C A 

The politics of commemoration: The Festival of Britain and the Coronation in 

Northern Ireland 

DEL 

Name 


beattie, S 

The Congested Districts Board and Donegal 

Name 


Buchanan, S 

Cost of Conflict, Price of Peace: Conflict Transformation through Social and Economic 

Development – Northern Ireland and the Border Counties as a Case Study 

Name 


Grant Source 

burgess, M 

Explaining Bloody Sunday 

DEL 

Name 


burke, G 

A Conversation Analytic Exploration of the Link Between Smoking and Identity 

Name 


Grant Source 

Campbell, L 

A River Runs Through It: Landscape and Community Identity in the Foyle Basin 

DEL 

Name 


Grant Source 

Conway, T 

French Influence on Ireland during the High Enlightenment (1745-94) as exemplified 

in the Gentleman’s and London Magazine 

DEL 

Name 


Delargy, M 

Identity among minority ethnic communities in Northern Ireland 

 

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Name 


Devlin, C 

The Scribal Tradition in South Armagh 

Name 


Grant Source 

Dietz, A 

Migration and Sense of Places: Italian Immigrants in Northern Ireland 

VCRS 

Name 

Doak, N 

Title of Project Assessing an Absence: Irish Protestant Women Novelists 1900-1960 

Grant Source 

DEL 

PhD awarded June 2007 

Name 


Donaghey, C 

Narratives of Childhod in Modern and Contemporary Northern Irish Poets 

Name 


Grant Source 

Grundle, G 

Translating literature and film for children. 

DEL 

Name 


Grant Source 

Harrigan, M C 

The Depositions of 1641, Use and Abuse 

DEL 

Name 


Grant Source 

Harris, L 

A Strategic Analysis of Loyalist Paramilitaries in NI 

DEL 

Name 


Grant Source 

Hunter, T 

Divining the earth - models of the threshold 

DEL 

 

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Name 

Kelly, S 

Title of Project Childhood TB in the north of Ireland 1880-1970 

Grant Source 

VCRS 

Name 


Grant Source 

Lake, E 

The history of medical communication/the book early nineteenth century Ireland 

DEL 

Name 


Lazuka, A 

Values Inherent in the Representation of Ireland During Communism, pre EC Accession 

and Post EC Accession in Poland 

Name 


Lelgouarch, K 

Hélène Lenoir ou l’écriture de la non-parole 

Name 


Grant Source 

MacAmhalaí, M 

Dark tourism in Northern Ireland: sensation and a ‘sense of place’ 

DEL 

Name 


Grant Source 

MacKinnon, I 

The Colonisation and Decolonisation of Identity: Theory and Practice Towards a 

Highland Renaissance 

DEL 

Name 


Grant Source 

Manson, C 

The Commemoration of the Great War in Belfast, Ulster and Northern Ireland 

DEL 

PhD awarded Summer 06 

Name 


Grant Source 

McAllister, D 

American Influences on Contemporary Northern Irish Poets 

DEL 

 

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Name 

McCabe, C 

Title of Project The NUR in Ireland, 1911-23 

Grant Source 

Dublin Corporation 

Name 


Grant Source 

McDermott, P 

Linguistic policy and the maintenance of linguistic heritage in Northern Ireland 

DEL 

Name 


McDowell, J 

The Male Use of Language in a Female Dominated Work Environment in the 

Case of Nursing. 

Name 

McGrattan, C 

Title of Project Political Opportunities in Northern Ireland 1972-76 

Grant Source 

DEL 

Name 


Grant Source 

Mitchell, D 

The Meaning of Peace in Northern Ireland: Implementing the Good Friday Agreement 

DEL 

Name 


Grant Source 

Mort, O 

The Modern American Long Poem 

DEL 

Name 


Muller, J 

Reviving the Irish Language in Northern Ireland 

Name 


Grant Source 

O’Doherty. L 

The Political and Military Career of Murrough O’Brien Lord Inchiquin 

DEL 

 

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Name 


Grant Source 

Peaker, R 

Everyman in Olive-Green: A study of the hero in American War Fiction 

DEL 

Name 


Grant Source 

Redmond, A 

Irish Traveller Women 

DEL 

Name 


Grant Source 

Rowland, C 

Migration and Cultural Confidence in Donegal and Scotland 

DEL 

Name 


Shalane, A 

A Critical Discursive Study of Media Coverage of the Iraq War 

Name 


Grant Source 

Sherry, J 

Scottish networks in Ulster in the later 17th Century 

VCRS 

Name 

Stephenson, C 

Title of Project Ireland’s National Theatre 1955-1985 

Grant Source 

VCRS 

Name 


Strauss, J 

The Role of Visual Art in the Mediation Process in the Northern Ireland Context 

Name 


walker, H 

Ulster Scots Identity: Loyalism in the Seventeenth and Twentieth Centuries 

Name 


walters, V 

The language of healing: Joseph Beuys and the Celtic World 

Grant Source 

VCRS 

 

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6. Research Publications 

Blackstock 

Loyalism in Ireland, 1789-1829 (Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, 2007) ISBN 978-1-84383-302-4 pp 298. 

‘Tommy Downshire’s Boys: Popular Protest, Social Change and Political Manipulation in Mid-Ulster, 1829-47’, 

published in Past and Present [196] August 2007, pp 125-172. 

‘Armed Citizens and Christian Soldiers: Crisis Sermons and Ulster Presbyterians, 1715-1803’ published in 

Eighteenth-Century Ireland [2007]. 

‘Orange songs in green books’ in Allan Blackstock and Eoin Magennis (eds) Politics and Political Culture in Britain 

and Ireland, 1750-1850: Essays in tribute to Peter Jupp (Ulster Historical Foundation, Belfast, 2007) ISBN 978-1- 

903688 pp 65-90. 

Crooke 

‘Museums and Community’ in S. MacDonald (ed) A Companion to Museum Studies (Blackwell Publishing 2006) pp 

170-185 

‘The representation of place by collectors and through collections’ in Museum Ireland, 17 (2007) 116-122 

Davies 

‘Beckett after 1960: A post-humanist reading of the Contemporary’, in Irish Literature since 1960, ed: E Kennedy- 

Andrews, Colin Smythe, 2005-6, pp151-172 

Delargy 

‘Language, culture and identity: The Chinese community in Northern Ireland’ in M. Nic Craith (ed) Language, 

Power and Identity Politics’ (Palgrave macmillan 2007) pp 123-145 

Doherty 

The Complete Edition of the Captain Francis O’Neill Collections (Irish Traditional Music Archive, Dublin) 

Co-editor of Crosbhealach an Cheoil/The Crossroads Conference, University of Ulster (Whinstone Music, Dublin) 

‘Bringing it all Back Hom Issues Surrounding Cape Breton Fiddle Music in Scotland’ in Play it Like it is – Fiddle 

and Dance Studies from around the North Atlantic (Ed. Ian Russell and Mary Anne Alburger, Elphinstone Institute, 

Aberdeen) 

Gargett 

with Tim Conway, ‘Voltaire’s La Voix du sage et du peuple in Ireland: or Enlightened Anticlericalism in Two 

Jurisdictions’, Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Iris an dá chultúr, 20 (2005 [2006]), pp.79-90 

 

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Garnham 

‘Riot acts, popular protest and Protestant mentalities in eighteenth-century Ireland’, Historical Journal, 49(2), pp 

1-21, 2006 

Garnham, Neal. “The survival of illegal blood sports in Victorian Ulster,” in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 

Series C. CVII (2007): 107-26. 

Garnham, Neal. ‘‘‘The only thing British that everybody likes’: military-civilian relations in late Victorian Ulster,” in 

Eire-Ireland, LXI Pt3/4 (Fall/Winter 2006); 59-79. 

Jamison 

Plagiarism, Popularity and the Dilemma of Artistic Worth: E. Œ. Somerville and Martin Ross’s Some Experiences of 

an Irish R.M. (1899).’ European Journal for English Studies: Special Issue on Law, Literature and Language 11.1 (2007) 

ISSN: 1382-5577 (Routledge) [at press]. 

‘Collaboration v. Imitation. Authorship and the Law.’ Law & Literature 18.3 (Autumn 2006): pp 83-108. 

‘Theatricality and the Irish R.M.: Comic Country House Dramatics Versus Abbey Theatre Ideology’, in Ruth 

Connolly and Ann Coughlan (eds), New Voices in Irish Criticism 5, Four Courts Press, 2005, pp 154-165 

Jones 

Manzoor F, Jones G, & McKenna J; ‘How could these people do this sort of stuff and then we have to look after 

them’ The Ethical Dilemas of Nursing in the Northern Ireland’. Conflict Journal for Oral History Society vol. 35 

no.2 2007 

Kennedy-Andrews 

‘Ciaran Carson: The New Urban Poetics’, for Danine in D. Farquharson and S Farrell (eds), ‘Shadows of the 

Gunmen: Violence and Culture in Northern Ireland’, Cork University Press, 2007, pp.142-65. 

‘The Novel and the Northern Troubles’, for John Wilson Foster (editor), The Cambridge Companion to the Irish 

Novel, Cambridge University Press, 2006 

‘John Montague: Global Regionalist’, Cambridge Quarterly, 35, 1 (2006), 

pp. 31-48 

Edited volume, Paul Muldoon: Poetry, Prose, Drama. A Collection of Critical Essays (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 

Ltd., 2006), 291pp 

‘Introducing Paul Muldoon: Arbitrary and Contrary’, in Paul Muldoon: Poetry, Prose, Drama. A Collection of Critical 

Essays (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe Ltd., 2006), pp. 1-18 

‘Heaney and Muldoon: Omphalos and Diaspora’ in Paul Muldoon: Poetry, Prose, Drama. A Collection of Critical 

Essays (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe Ltd., 2006), pp. 101-127 

Edited volume, Irish Fiction since the 1960s (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe Ltd., 2006), 339pp 

‘Introduction: The New Humanism’, in Irish Fiction since the 1960s (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe Ltd., 2006), pp. 

1-26 

 

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‘Shadows of the Gunmen: The Troubles Novel’, in Irish Fiction since the 1960s (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe Ltd., 

2006), pp. 87-118 

‘The Novel and the Northern Troubles’, in John Wilson Foster (editor), The Cambridge Companion to the Irish 

Novel, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 238-258 

Peer-reviewed essay: ‘John Montague: Global Regionalist’, Cambridge Quarterly, 35, 1 (2006), 

pp. 31-48 

Kockel 

‘Ieškant Europos vidaus ribų: ekoetnologiniai pamąstymai apie vietos ir istoriškumo prasmę.’ Lietuvos Etnologija 

– socialinės antropologijos ir etnologijos studijos 7(16), 2007, pp. 57-76. 

‘Heritage versus Tradition: Cultural Resources for a New Europe’, in The European Puzzle: Culture and Identities in 

Europe, ed. Marion Demossier (New York and Oxford: Berghahn 2007), pp. 85-101. 

‘K(l)eine Deutschlande. Heimat und Fremde deutscher Einwanderer auf den Britischen Inseln.’ in 

Beziehungsgeschichten. Minderheiten – Mehrheiten in europäischer Perspektive, eds Elka Tschernokoshewa and 

Volker Gransow (Bautzen: Domowina 2007), pp. 188-202. 

‘Heritage and Tradition Revisited: Towards the European Ethnology for the 21st Century.’ Defining Region: Socio- 

Cultural Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis XII – Studia 

Anthropologica I, 2006, pp. 87-100. 

Cultural Heritages as Reflexive Traditions, co-ed. Máiréad Nic Craith (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2007), 221pp. 

‘Reflexive Traditions and Heritage Production’, in Cultural Heritages as Reflexive Traditions, eds Ullrich Kockel and 

Máiréad Nic Craith (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2007), pp. 19-33 

Negotiating Culture: Moving, Mixing and Memory in Contemporary Europe, co-ed. Reginald Byron (Münster et al.: 

Lit 2006), 209 pp. 

‘Negotiating Culture: An Introduction’, (with Reginald Byron) in Negotiating Culture: Moving, Mixing and Memory in 

Contemporary Europe, eds Reginald Byron and Ullrich Kockel (Münster et al.: Lit 2006), pp. 1-17. 

Loughlin 

‘Creating “a Social and Geographical Fact”: Regional Identity and the Ulster Question 1880s-1920s’, Past and 

Present no. 195 (May 2007), pp.159-96. 

‘Crown, Spectacle and Identity: the British Monarchy and Ireland under the Union 1800-1922’ in Andrzej 

Olechnowicz (ed.), The Monarchy and the British Nation : 1780 to the Present (Cambridge University press, 2007), 

pp. 108-36. 

The British Monarchy and Ireland: 1800 to the Present (Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. xv, 398. 

McConnel 

with Frank Ferguson, Across the Water: Ireland and Scotland in the Nineteenth Century (Dublin, 2007) 

With Matthew Kelly, ‘Devolution, federalism and imperial circuitry: Ireland, South Africa, and India’, in Duncan Tanner 

(ed.), Before Devolution: debating nationhood and government in Britain, 1885-1939: Britishness, devolution and the 

language of nationalism in Wales, Ireland and Scotland (Manchester, 2006). 

 

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McKee 

‘The Influence of the Huguenots on Educated Ireland: Huguenot Books in Church Libraries of the Eighteenth 

Century’. In Anne Dunan-Page, (ed). The Religious Culture of the Huguenots, 1660-1750, Aldershot, Ashgate 2006, 

pp 121-136 

Murphy 

‘The subaltern can whisper: secrecy and solidarity in the fiction of John and Michael Banim’, in T McDonagh (ed), 

Was Ireland a Colony, Dublin, Irish Academic Press, pp 455-490 

Nic Craith 

Europe and the Politics of Language: Citizens, Migrants, Outsiders, 2006, Palgrave 2006, 250pp 

Cultural Heritages as Reflexive Traditions. Macmillan/Palgrave (co-edited with Ullrich Kockel), 2007.Palgrave. 

Language, Power and Identity Politics (ed), 2007, Palgrave, 

‘Rethinking Language Policies: Challenges and Opportunities’ in C. Williams ed., Language and Governance, 

University of Wales Press, 2007, pp. 159-84. 

Sichtbarer Unterschied oder unsichtbare Gleichheit Ethnische Minderheiten in Nordirland’ in Elka 

Tschernokoshewa and Volker Gransow (eds) Beziehungsgeschichten: Minderheiten-Mehrheiten in europäischer 

Perspektive, Bautzen, Domowina-Verlag, 2007, 169-79. 

‘Languages and Power: Accommodation and Resistance’ in M. Nic Craith ed. Language, Power and Identity Politics, 

Palgrave, Macmillan, pp. 1-21. 

‘Cultural Heritages: Process, Power, Commodification’ in Ullrich Kockel and Máiréad Nic Craith eds Cultural 

Heritages as Reflexive Traditions, Palgrave, 2007, pp. 1-19. 

‘A Spatial Analysis of In-Migration: A Case Study of Northern Ireland’ in Ullrich Kockel and Reg Byron (eds) 

Negotiating Culture: Moving and Mixing in Contemporary Europe. LIT Verlag,p 2006, pp121-142 

‘Boundaries of Europe: Towards a Political Anthropology of the Baltic States’ in Rimantas Sliuzinskas and Vytis 

Ciubrinskas eds. Defining Region: Socio-Cultural Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Perspectives Klaipéda: Klaipéda 

University Press, 2006, pp. 117-128. 

‘From the Local to the Global (and Back): Political Anthropology in Europe’ in Asta Vonderau and Kerstin Poehls 

eds Researching Through Europe: Europakonzepte in der Europäischen Ethnologie, Munster: LIT Verlag, 2006, pp. 

147-57. 

O’ Connor 

‘Problems of reform in the Irish Trades Union Congress, 1894-1914’, Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, 

no.23/24(spring/.autumn, 2007), pp. 37-59 

‘Derry, the north west, and the Spanish Civil War, parts 1-6’, Sunday Journal (Derry), 2 April-7 May 2006 

‘’Sentries of British imperialism’ The question of British based unions in Ireland’, Socialist History, 29 (2006), 1-19 

 

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Patterson 

New revised and updated as Ireland since 1939: Modernisation and the Persistence of Conflict, Penguin Ireland, 

September 2006 (422pp) 

‘In the land of King Canute; Border Unionism and Unionist Politics 1945-69’, Journal of Contemporary British 

History, vol 20, no 4, December 2006 pp 511-532 

‘The Dynamics of Intra-Party Support for the Belfast Agreement in the Ulster Unionist Party’ Political Studies. Vol 

54, no 3, October 2006 pp 509-532 (with Eric Kaufmann) 

Salis 

The Sepulchral Metaphor In The Burial At Thebes, A Translation Of Sophocles’ Antigone By Seamus Heaney in Maria 

Jose Carreras ed., Imaginary/Real Ireland (Valladolid, 2007) 

Stapleton 

(2006). Devolution and Identity (pp. 11-31). Aldershot: Ashgate. (edited with J. Wilson). 

(with J. Wilson) (2006). ‘New politics, new identities The case of Northern Ireland’. International Journal of the 

Humanities 2 (3) 1867-1876. 

(with J. Wilson) (2006). ‘Identity categories in use: The Ulster Scots identity in post-devolution Northern Ireland’. 

In J. Wilson and K. Stapleton (eds). Devolution and Identity (pp. 11-31). Aldershot: Ashgate. 

(with J. Wilson) (2007). ‘The discourse of resistance: Social change and policing in Northern Ireland’. Language in 

Society 36 (3) 393-425. 

(with Wilson, J.) (2007). ‘Authority’. In J. Verschueren, J-O. Östman and E.Versluys (eds). Handbook of Pragmatics. 

Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 

(with Wilson, J) (2007). Narratives of Lesser-used languages in Europe: The case of Ulster Scots’. In S.Millar and 

J.Wilson (eds). The Discourse of Europe: Talk and text in everyday life (pp. 173-196). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 

Welch 

‘The Evergreen Road’, Lagan Press, Belfast 2006 

‘Protestants’, Lagan Press, Belfast, 2006, pp.79. With essays by Robert Welch, Rachel O’ Riordan, Ophelia Byrne in 

reviews for Michael Portillo et al. 

Publication of Vol III of ‘Oxford History of the Irish Book: 1550-1800, General Editor with Brian Walker 

Wilson 

(2006). Devolution and Identity (pp. 11-31). Aldershot: Ashgate. (edited with K. Stapleton). 

(with K. Stapleton) (2006). ‘New politics, new identities The case of Northern Ireland’. International Journal of the 

Humanities 2 (3) 1867-1876. 

 

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(with K. Stapleton) (2006). ‘Identity categories in use: The Ulster Scots identity in post-devolution Northern 

Ireland’. In J. Wilson and K. Stapleton (eds). Devolution and Identity (pp. 11-31). Aldershot: Ashgate. 

(2006) Power and Pragmatics. In K. Harris, (ed) Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics. Routledge 

(2007). The Discourse of Europe. Talk and text in everyday life. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (edited with S. Millar). 

(with K. Stapleton) (2007). ‘The discourse of resistance: Social change and policing in Northern Ireland’. Language 

in Society 36 (3) 393-425 

(with K. Stapleton) (2007). ‘Authority. In J.Verschueren, J-O. Östman and E.Versluys (eds). Handbook of 

Pragmatics. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 

(with K. Stapleton) (2007). Narratives of Lesser-used languages in Europe: The case of Ulster Scots’. In S.Millar 

and J.Wilson (eds). The Discourse of Europe: Talk and text in everyday life (pp. 173-196). Amsterdam: John 

Benjamins. 

 

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7. Research Funding 

Research Awards for Irish Cultural Heritages starting between 01/08/06 and 31/07/07 

Staff Name(s) Title of Award Funding Body Value 

Crooke, Dr EM The representation of place by AHRC £5,514 

collectors and through collections: 

an evaluation of examples from 


Kelly, Dr WP Historia & Commentarius The Irish Government £674,000 

Kennedy-Andrews, Dr Copy of Writing Home: Towards a AHRC - Research £26,697 

New Poetics of Place in Contemporary Leave Scheme 

Northern Irish Poetry. 

McConnel, Dr J Guy Fawkes in British North Government of Canada £1,614 

America and Canada 

Jones, Prof GJ Enhancement Award for the The Wellcome Trust £94,400 

Development of the History of 

Medicine in Ireland 

Kockel, Prof U Collaborative Research Training AHRC £1,900 

(with P. McDermott) Workshop 

Wilson, Prof J Collation & Preparation of 2 Ulster Ulster Scots Academy £26,950 

Scots Readers 

Wilson, Prof J Institute of Ulster Scots Ulster Scots Agency £600,000 

Continuation funding 

 

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8. Indicators of Esteem 

Arthur 

• Fulbright Scholar, Department of History Stanford University (Feb – July 2007) 

• Awarded a DLitt from NUI for published works 

• Academic adviser to the Saville Inquiry on Bloody Sunday 

• Appointed to International Advisory Board FUSION (Bogota) April 2005 

• Appointed to International Advisory Board of Global Majority (Monterey Institute of International 

Studies, California, March 2005 

• Appointed as Specialist Advisor to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee’ Inquiry “Healing the 

Wounds: Dealing with Northern Ireland’s Past”. Reported April 2005 

• Invited by Nobel Peace Institute to give keynote address ‘Conflict Transformation’ at Forum on 

‘Striving for Peace: Risk and Reconciliation’ St Olaf College, Northfield, MN 

Invited Lectures 

20 February, Idaho State University, Boise 

‘The Role of Memory in the Northern Ireland Conflict’: Lecture 

22 February, Montana Technical Institute, Butte: Lecture 

‘The Northern Ireland Peace Process from analysis to implementation’ 

3 March, The Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University Boston 

‘States of Ambiguity: Rebellion and Recognition’: Panellist 

8 March, Forum on Contemporary Europe Stanford 

‘Dealing with the Past: Obstacles to Peace in Northern Ireland’: Lecture 

14 March, Oregon State University Humanities Center 

‘The evolution and disintegration of the N. Ireland conflict’: lecture 

5 April, Monterey Institute for International Studies lecture 

‘The role of civil society in the peace processes of South Africa and N. Ireland’ 

24 April, Center for British Studies UC Berkeley lecture 

‘Managing the transition in the N. Ireland peace process 

Blackstock 

• Reader for Irish Historical Studies 

• Joint editor of festschrift for Peter Jupp 

• Elected member of the editorial board of the Ulster Society for Irish Historical studies 

• Reviewer for Eighteenth-Century Ireland, The Journal of Irish Economic and Social History and is a 

reader for Irish Historical Studies. 

• Joint organiser International Conference, ‘Brethren of Britons: Loyalism in Britain, Ireland and the 

Empire, 1775-1914’ UU Magee, June 2007 

• Member Belfast Heritage Forum 

 

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Crooke 

• Appointed the Accreditation subgroup of the Museums and Archives Committee of the Heritage 

Council, Republic of Ireland, 2006 

• Appointed to the Board of Northern Ireland Museums Council, June 2006 

• Guest curator of Exhibition, Passions and Possessions: Collecting Past and Present, Fermanagh County 

Museum, 2005 

• External Examiner 2002-2006, MA Museum Studies International Centre for Culture and Heritage 

Studies, University of Newcastle 

• Member of Museums and Archives Committee of the Heritage Council, Republic of Ireland 2002-2006 

• Member of the Museum Subgroup, Healing Through Remembering, Belfast (from Jan 05-Dec 06) 

• External Assessor for AHRC, ESRC 

• Organiser AHRC Workshop series May/June 2007 

Davies 

• Reviewer: Notes and Queries 

Delargy 

• Keynote speaker ‘Minority Communities in Derry’, Step-Up Conference, University of Liverpool 2007 

• Board member, Black and Minority Ethnic Forum 

• Board member, Cultures of Ulster Music Project 

• Committee member Oireachtas na Gaeilge 2006 

• Contributor Blas, BBC Radio Ulster on the Polish Community in Northern Ireland 

• Contributor Arts Extra BBC Radio Ulster on the Polish Community in Derry 

• Reviewer Irish Journal of Anthropology 

Gargett 

• Member of Editorial Board of Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Iris an dá chultúr 

• Referee for the Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford 

• Visiting Fellow at the Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford (2006) 

• Elected member of Royal Irish Academy (2006) 

Reviewer for: 

• Modern Language Review 

• French Studies 

• The British Journal for Eighteenth- Century Studies 

• Eighteenth-Century Ireland 

• Proceedings of the Huguenot Society 

• Irish Social and Economic History 

Garnham 

• Joint editor Irish Economic and Social History 

• Editorial board Sport in History 

 

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Jamison 

• Reader for Four Courts Press 

• Reviewer for Irish Studies Review and Irish University Review 

Jones 

• Joint organiser and editor Herbert Spencer: the intellectual legacy Proceedings of a conference 

organised by the Galton Institute 

• Two year Wellcome Foundation teaching fellowship 

• Contributor to Radio 4 programme, Racial Science in the 19th Century ‘Skulduggery’ broadcast, June 

2006 

Journal Refereeing: 

• Cultural and Social History 

• English Historial Review 

• Political Studies 

• British Journal for the History of Science 

Refereeing for Grant Awarding Bodies: 

• Government of Ireland Fellowships 

• Wellcome Trust for the History of Medicine 

Kelly 

• Editor Commentarius Rinuccinianus project 

• Organiser international conference in 2006 

• Joint editor (with J. Wilson): Ulster and Scotland Series, with Four Courts (five books already 

published in the series) 

• Adjunct Professor University of Guelph, Ontario 

• Contributor to the New Dictionary of National Biography 

Kennedy-Andrews 

• Fellow of English Association 

• External Examiner for PhDs in English Trinity College Dublin (2006) 

• McCrea Literary Award Panel, 2001- present 

• Organiser of Ulster Symposium 

• Editor, Ulster Editions and Monographs Series, Colin Smythe Ltd. 

• Chief Examiner for English Literature, Northern Ireland Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and 

Assessment (CEA) 

• Member of English Working Party, Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA), London 

• Reader for Palgrave/Macmillan, Longmans, Oxford University Press 

• Reader and Reviewer for Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, University of Calgary, 

Canada. 

 

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Kockel 

• Editorial Board, Folk Life – Journal of Ethnological Studies, 2008-13 

• Editor, Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, 2007-11 

• External Assessor for two professorial appointments in Social anthropology, University of Stockholm 

• Executive Board, Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore, 2004-8 

• EASA Europeanist Network steering group, 2004-8 

• External Examiner for PhD in Social Anthropology, Stockholm 2006 

• Visiting Professor of European Studies, UWE Bristol 2005-8 

• Invited as member of Curatorial Group, Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2007, 2005-7 

• External Assessor for the Irish Higher Education Authority’s Programme for Research in Third Level 

Institutions 

• Peer reviewer for AHRC, Leverhulme Trust, Irish Higher Education Authority, Nederlandse Organisatie 

voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek 

• Peer reviewer for Identities, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Irish Studies Review, Ethnologia 

Europaea, Journal of Sustainable Development 

• Editor, Progress in European Ethnology (Ashgate,2002-) and, with Máiréad Nic Craith, European 

Studies in Culture and Policy (LIT, 2004-) 

• Editorial board, Studeyrys Manninagh – Manx Studies 

Invited plenaries 

• 2nd LAND2 Interdisciplinary Symposium, Bristol, England 2006 

• Ethnologia Europaea symposium, Lund, Sweden 2007: European Ethnology and the University 

Loughlin 

Adviser/contributor to UTV series on Ireland and the Great War 

Journal Referee: 

• Historical Journal 

• Irish Historical Studies 

• Irish Political Studies 

• Journal of British History; History 

Referee for Grant Awarding Bodies: 

• ESRC (Economic & Social Research Council) 

• IRCHSS (Irish Research Council for the Humanities: Government of Ireland) 

• Post-Doctoral Fellowships 

Reviewer: 

• Irish Historical Studies 

• History 

• European Historical Quarterly 

• English Historical Review 

• Irish Review 

Reader: 

• Oxford University Press 

• Manchester University Press 

• Routledge 

• Palgrave Macmillan 

 

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McCann 

• Appointed to Board of Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology (UCLA) 

• Reviewer for Sheffield Online Papers in Social Research (University of 

Sheffield) 

• Reviewer for British Journal for Ethnomusicology 

McConnel 

• Papers to seminars in Toronto. Boston, Bangor, London, Southampton, Oxford, Dublin 

McKee 

• Reviews editor ECIS 

• Reviewer for French Studies, Twentieth Century France and Immigrants and Minorities 

• External examiner (undergraduate) at University of Limerick 

• External reviewer: Validation of French (Combined Honours) Degree (Canterbury Christ Church 

University) 

Murphy 

• Reviewer: The Irish Times 

Nic Craith 

RAE 

• UoA50 sub-panel member RAE 2007/8 

Award 

• Senior Distinguished Fellowship at the University of Ulster, 2006 

Keynote Addresses 

• Europe, Discourse of Exclusion/Inclusion, Mercator Legislation, Barcelona, 2006 

Editorial Board 

• Irish Journal of Anthropology 

• Ethnopolitics (Routledge) 

• Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 

Reader/Reviewer 

• Reader for Palgrave, University of Edinburgh Press 

• Reviewer for Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, Journal of Multilingual and 

Multiccultural Development, Anthropology Today 

Media 

• Contributions to Lingua Franca (Conversations with Michael Rosen – Children’s Laureate), BBC Radio 

3, 2007 

O Ciardha 

 

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O’ Ciardha 

Editorial duties 

• History Ireland, The Flight of the Earls, Special Issue, July/August 2007.. 

• Volume editor, Oxford History of the Irish Book (forthcoming, 2009-). 

• Historical advisor, Robert Welch, Seamus Mac Mathúna and Kamil Kapoor (ed.), Irish-India Reader 

(forthcoming, 2009). 

Membership of societies/boards 

• History Ireland, Editorial Board, 2007- 

• Jacobite Studies Trust Committee, 2006- 

• F.R Hist Soc 

• IRCHSS [Government of Ireland Post-Doc. Scheme], Post-Doc.Reviewer 

• Irish Academic Press, Manuscript Reader 

Conferences attended and organized 

• University of Sassari, November 2006 

• Jacobite Conference, British Academy, 12 July 2007 

• Éigse Cholmcille , 2-3 March 2007 

• Flight of the Earls, 17-19 August 2007 

TV, Radio Profile 

• Flight of the Earls docu-drama, starring Stephen Rea as Hugh O’Neill, 

• broadcast 14 September 2007, for the 400th Anniversary of the Flight. 

• Newstalk, 106-108, [Flight of the Earls], 26 August 2007. 

• Interviewee and Participant in various programmes on Radio na Gaeltachta , 

• BBC Ulster, Newstalk and RTÉ 

Outreach 

• McGlinchey Summer School, 2007 

• Neil T. Blaney Winter School, Dec. 2007. 

• Clogher Record, wrote foreword and am launching forthcoming volume, 2 April 2008 

O’ Connor 

• Member committee Irish Labour History Society 1983-2004 and Hon President since 2005 

• Member editorial boards: Labour History Review and Socialist History 

• External examiner for dissertations DCU, TCD, UCC, UCD, UCG 

• Guest Lecturer UCD, 2006 

Patterson 

• External Assessor for the AHRC 

• Member of Editorial Board: Irish Political Studies 

 

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Stapleton 

• External Examiner for BA Hons Audio-Visual Media and BA Hons European Studies, Institute of 

Tallaght, Dublin (2004-present_ 

• Reviewer for The Communication Yearbook; the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture; The 

International Journal of Humanities. 

• Invited Speaker: Identity, Diversity and Citizenship Seminar Series (UCD, 2006) 

• Member of the European Parliamentary Network. 

• Paper and Panel Reviewer for the International Communication Association Annual Conference 

Welch 

• Visiting Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, 2005-09 

• Keynote Lecture on Máirtín Ó Cadhain and Samuel Beckett, Cúirt, Galway, 2006 

• Reviewer for: TG4, BBC Radio Ulster and Radio 4 

• Alan Harrison Memorial Lecture, Society for 18th Century Ireland, University of Ulster, 2006 

• General Editor, Ulster Edition and Monographs, Vols 1-14 

• External Examiner for PhDs at Dublin City University and Trinity College 

• General Editor (with Brian Walker), Oxford History of the Irish Book, 5 Volumes, 2005-2009 

Wilson 

• Keynote Lecture: Are you out of Your Mind Royal College of Speech and 

Language Therapists Annual Conference (Belfast, 2006) 

• Keynote Lecture: ‘Social Theory and Social Reality’: Habitus and the rhetorical reconstruction of 

policing in Northern Ireland’. Rhetoric in Society Conference (Aalborg, Denmark, 2006). 

• External Examiner (PhD) University of Bergen, Norway. 

• Paper and Panel Reviewer for the International Communication Association Annual conference 

• Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations 

• Elected member of the Consultation Board of the International Pragmatics Association 

• Member of editorial board: Journal of Language and Politics. 

 

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International Advisory Board 2005-2009 

• Prof Michael Cronin, School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies, Dublin City University, 

Dublin 9 

• Prof Marianne Elliott OBE, Director, Institute for Irish Studies, University of Liverpool, Liverpool 

• Prof William Logan, UNESCO Chair of Heritage & Urbanism & Alfred Deakin Professor, Director, 

Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia & the Pacific School of History, Heritage & Society Faculty of Arts 

Deakin University Burwood Victoria 3125 Australia 

• Prof Keith Robbins, Former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Lampeter 

• Prof Helena Wulff, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholms Universitet, Stockholm. 

 

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