Professor Pierce Grace
History of medicine, disease and healthcare in Ireland.
Dr John Logan
Poverty in the eighteenth-century city; schooling, language and literacy in the nineteenth century; education policy, Ireland 1920-90.
Professor Anthony McElligott MIRA, FRHistS, Emeritus Professor of History
Germany in the twentieth century, including urban politics, cultural history; Holocaust in the Eastern Aegean.
Dr Kirsten Mulrennan
Archivistics; medical history, including psychiatric history and sensitive archival records; archival literacy, education and outreach; digital humanities and digital scholarship.
Dr Catriona Paul
Research interests: American history, 1700 – 1900; human-animal histories; social and cultural history; the American West.
Dr Matthew Potter
Urban History; History of local government; history of Limerick; death and cemeteries; social housing; Irish textiles; local history; history of modern Ireland; the Anglo-Irish landed elite 1700-1921.
Professor Bernadette Whelan
MIRA, Associate Professor Emerita
Irish foreign policy 1900-60; nineteenth and twentieth-century American-Irish relations; recovery and reconstruction after the Second World War; women in Ireland, 1900-60.
Research Interests: History of economic democracy and the historical relationship between capitalism and religion.
Contact the School of History and Geography
The School of History and Geography is located in the Main Building in Room C1076
The Head of School is Professor David Fleming
Individual staff members can be contacted through the details on their profile pages in the staff section
Email: history.geography@ul.ie
Phone: +353 61 202280
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