Ongoing Projects
2022-2026. MALCONTENTS: Order and Disorder in the Early Modern World of Learning.
Funding body: IRC, Irish Research Council Laureate Award (Consolidator)
Funding awarded c.€600,000
Principal Investigator: Dr Richard Kirwan.
Project Team: Dr Richard Kirwan, Dr Colin Donnelly, Ms Ciara Sheehan.
2021-2024. OS200 Digitally Remapping Ireland’s Ordnance Survey Heritage.
Funding body: IRC and AHRC, UK-Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities Research
Funding awarded c.€740,000
Principal Investigators: Dr Catherine Porter (UL) and Professor Keith Lilley (QUB).
2013-15. Irish Records Linkage, 1864-1913
Funding body: IRC, Research Project Grant
Funding awarded €329,181
Principal Investigators: Dr Ciara Breathnach (UL) & Sandra Collins, (Digital Repository of Ireland/RIA).
2013-2016. A study of women in the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, 1919 to 1979
IRC, Postgraduate Scholarship
IRC Scholar: Ann Marie O’Brien-Graham
Supervisor: Professor Bernadette Whelan
Completed Projects
2011/12. Augmented Reality Phone Application: ‘Irelandundersiege’
Funding body: NAIRTL.
Funding awarded: €20,000
Principal Investigators: Prof. Bernadette Whelan (UL), Robert Hutchison (UL).
Team: J.O’Callaghan (UL), D.Fleming (UL), P. Lenihan NUIG, Moore RIA.
2010-11. Death and funerary practices, 1829-1901
Funding bodies: IRCHSS/Eneclan Co.Ltd.
Funding awarded: €57,000
Principal Investigator: Dr Ciara Breathnach (UL)
Team: D. Butler UL, L. Geary (UCC) P. Gray (QUB).
2008-12. Graduate Research Education Programme, ‘Gender, Culture and Identity: local, national, international.’
Funding body: IRCHSS
Funding awarded: €991,020
Principal Investigators: Prof. Bernadette Whelan (UL), Prof. Gerardine Meaney (UCD).
2008-10. From the cradle to the Grave: life-cycles in modern Ireland
Funding body: IRCHSS
Funding awarded: €97,745
Principal Investigator: Professor Anthony McElligott (UL); Co Investigator: Dr Ciara Breathnach (UL) (2008-10); Post Doctoral Research Associate: Dr Georgina Laragy (July-December 2010).
2007-10. Inventing and re-inventing the Irish woman: external influences on gender construction 1760-2005
Funding body: IRCHSS
Funding awarded: €150,000
Team: Prof. Bernadette Whelan (UL), Prof. Geraldine Meaney (UCD), Prof. Mary O’Dowd (Queen’s University Belfast)
2006-10. Comparative Civic Cultures
Funding Body: IRCHSS/AMAI
Funding awarded: €160,000.
Principal Investigator: Professor Anthony McElligott (UL)
Team: Nadine Rossol, Dr Matthew Potter, Professor Barry Doyle (Huddersfield), Professor Tim Kirk (Newcastle)
2004-06. Women and public life: north and south
Funding Body: HEA
Funding awarded: €150,000.
Principal Investigators: Prof. Bernadette Whelan (UL), Prof. Gerardine Meaney (UCD).
IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL (IRC/IRCHSS) Fellows and Scholars
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Jason Begley, B.A., Ph.D. (Limerick) |
Postgraduate Scholar, 2000-3 |
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Tina Dingel, M.A. (St. Andrews), Ph.D. (Limerick) |
Postgraduate Scholar, 2002-4 |
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David Fleming, B.A. (Limerick), M.St. (Oxon), D.Phil (Oxon) |
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2007-9 |
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Mary Healy B.A. (LSAD), M.A. (Limerick), Ph.D. (Limerick) |
Postgraduate Scholar, 2010-11 |
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John Maguire, B.A., Ph.D. (Limerick) |
Postgraduate Scholar, 2003-6 |
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William O’Brien, B.A., M.A. H. Dip. Ed (N.U.I.), Ph.D. (Limerick) |
Postgraduate Scholar, 1999-0 |
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John O’Callaghan, B.A., M.A. (Limerick), H.Dip.Ed (N.U.I.) |
Postgraduate Scholar, 2006-8 |
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Anne O’Connell, B.A. (N.U.I.) M.A. Ph.D. (Limerick) |
Postgraduate Scholar, 1994-8 |
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Catherine O’Connor, B.Rel.Sc. (N.U.I.) M.A., Ph.D. (Limerick) |
Postgraduate Scholar, 2002-5 |
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Matthew Potter, B.A. (London), Ph.D. (N.U.I.) |
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2006-8 |
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Nadine Rossol, M.A. (St. Andrews), Ph.D. (Limerick) |
Postgraduate Scholar, 2003-5 |
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Nadine Rossol, M.A. (St. Andrews), Ph.D. (Limerick) |
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2007-9 |
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Bernadette Whelan, B.A. M.A. Ph.D. (N.U.I.) |
Senior Research Fellow, 2005-6 |
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Gavin Wilk, B.A., (Villanova), M.A. (Limerick) |
Postgraduate Scholar, 2008-10 |
IRCHSS GRADUATE RESEARCH EDUCATION PROGRAMME 'GENDER CULTURE AND IDENTITY'
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Patrick McMahon , B.A. Limerick GREP Scholar |
2008-12 |
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Alexandra McCarthy GREP Doctoral Student |
2010-13 |
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