Dublin, Chicago, Cork

 

International Conferences:

Portrait of the City: Framing the Significance of Historic Urban Landscapes, Dublin Castle, December 2010 (co-organised with Finola O’Kane)

Bare Bones of a Fanlight’: Georgian Dublin, Newman House, Dublin, May 2006 (co-organised with Finola O’Kane)

Publications:

  • ‘”Readiness and Range”: Margaret Sullivan, Irish Nationalist, American Journalist’ in Reddin van Tuyll, O’Brien, Broersma (eds), Politics, Culture and the Irish Diaspora Press in America, (Syracuse, 2020)

  • ‘Nano Nagle - An Unconventional Woman’ (with Jessie Castle) in History Ireland, (vol 26, July/Aug 2015)

  • ‘“I am building a house” Nano Nagle’s Georgian Convents’ (with Jessie Castle) in Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies, vol IX, 2017, 54-75

  • Blood Runs Green: The Murder that Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago (Chicago, 2015)

  • ‘A Diabolical Murder’: Clan na Gael, Chicago and the Murder of Dr Cronin’, History Ireland (vol 23, May/June 2015)

  • Editor (with Finola O’Kane) Portraits of the City, (Dublin, 2012)

  • “And all her ghosts that walk”: Commemorating the past in Dublin’s future’ in Portraits of the City, 230-40

  • ‘The Future of the Past’ in Lorcan Sirr (ed.) Dublin’s Future – New Visions on Ireland’s Capital City’, (Dublin, 2011), 209-25

  • ‘Patriotism, Professionalism and the Press: The Chicago Press & Irish Journalists, 1875-1900’ in Kevin Rafter (ed.), ‘Irish Journalism: A Historical Anthology (Manchester, 2011), 120-34

  • Editor (with Finola O’Kane) Georgian Dublin (Dublin, 2008)

  • ‘“What can possess you to go to Ireland?”: Perceptions of Dublin in the late Georgian Period’, Georgian Dublin, 9-24.

Committees/Working groups/workshops

  • Member of Dublin City Council’s Cultural Heritage Working Group, 2011-2014

  • Participant in Dublin City Council and ICOMOS workshop to consider how the Historic Urban Landscape can assist in the planning and management of Dublin City’s growth and change. Mansion House, Dublin, 2018.

Conferences/Public Talks

2019

  • ‘Hidden in Plain Sight: Convents in Georgian Ireland’, (with Jessie Castle) Dublin

  • ‘Mapping the Markets: Markets in Dublin from 1202-1847’, Dublin History Network Conference

2018

  • ‘The Irish in Chicago’, Migration Panel, Liverpool Irish Festival

  • ‘Laying a strong foundation: Nano Nagle - builder and businesswoman’ Catholic Historical Society of Ireland, Dublin

  • ‘Georgian Convents: Cork, Kerry, Waterford’, (with Jessie Castle) Eighteenth Century Ireland Society Conference, Waterford

2017

  • ‘Blood Runs Green: Clan na Gael and the Murder of Dr Cronin’, Parnell Summer School, Co. Wicklow

  • ‘Hidden Cork: Nano Nagle’s Convents’ (with Jessie Castle), Cork, Heritage Week

  • ‘The Convent Economy: A Cork Case Study (with Jessie Castle), History of Women Religious in Britain and Ireland Conference, UCD

2016

  • ‘A Carnival of Plots’: Irish American Republicanism in the late-nineteenth century’, Conference of Irish Historians in Britain, University of Liverpool

  • ‘A Champion Spy’: Henri Le Caron and Irish American Republicanism’, British Crime Historians Symposium, University of Edinburgh

2015

  • Chicago and Clan na Gael’, American Irish Heritage Centre, Chicago

  • ‘The Irish in nineteenth-century Chicago’, Chicago History Museum

  • ‘Murder and Radical Irish America’, Far-Side Festival, Athlone

  • ‘”A Diabolical Murder”: The Clan, Cronin, and Chicago in the Gilded Age’, American Irish Historical Center, New York

  • ‘Thomas Nast and America’, Art and Visual Culture Seminar at the Dr William M Scholl Center for American History and Culture, Chicago

  • ‘“Truth in essentials”: Newspapers and Sensational Crime in Chicago: A Case Study’, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois

  • ‘From Pat-riot to Patriot: Caricatures of the Irish in the American Press’, Newberry Library Chicago