Postgraduate theses

PhD

• Lisa Butterly, ‘The County Louth Mental Home, 1922-1933: establishing a local psychiatric facility in the Irish Free State’ [with Dr Dympna McLoughlin].
• Patrick Cosgrove, ‘The Wyndham Land Act, 1903: the final solution to the Irish land question?’ [completed 2008].
• Emer Crooke, ‘Political and Public Attitudes to the Big House in Post-Independence Ireland’. [IRCHSS funded].
• Brian Casey, ‘A reappraisal of landlordism: the Clancarty estate in East Galway, 1885-1914.’ [IRCHSS funded].
• Kevin McKenna, ‘Power, resistance, and  ritual: landlord-tenant relations on the Clonbrock estate 1849-1917’ [IRCHSS funded, completed 2011].
• Desmond Konopka, ‘The Irish political career of George Frederick William Howard, 7th Earl Carlisle, 1835-1864: a study of British administration in Ireland during the nineteenth century’.
• Ciaran Reilly, ‘Land Agents and the management of estates in King’s County during the Great Famine, 1845-53’ [IRCHSS funded, completed 2010]
• Edward Tynan, ‘War veterans, land distribution and revolution in Ireland, 1919-23’ [IRCHSS funded].

M. Litt.

• Suzanne Pegley, ‘The establishment and consolidation of the Rathcairn Gaeltacht colony in Co Meath, 1932-48’ [Published in Maynooth Studies in Local History Series 2011]

M.A. in Local History

• Oliver Conlon, ‘Frank Burke’s Easter Rising: “from the source of the Boyne to a torrent of nationalism”.’
• Brian Coughlan, ‘The Kirkintilloch tragedy (1937) and its impact on Achill Island’.  [Published in Maynooth Studies in Local History Series 2006]
• Mary Delaney, ‘William Steuart Trench and improvements on the Digby estate, 1857-1871’ [to be published in Maynooth Studies in Local History Series 2012]
• Thomas Flynn, ‘The Gaelic Athletic Association in County Longford, 1888-1923’
• Rob Goodbody, ‘Sir Charles Domville and the management of his Shankill estate, County Dublin, 1857-1868’  [Published in Maynooth Studies in Local History Series 2003]
• Anne Dowling Grindle, ‘The origins and development of the lace making industry in Carrickmacross, County Monaghan, 1816-1907’.
• Donal Hall, ‘World War I and its impact on nationalist politics in County Louth, 1912-1920’  [Published in Maynooth Local History Series 2005]
• Edward Kennedy, ‘The land movement in Tullaroan, County Kilkenny, 1879-91: “sustaining the honour of the parish”’  [Published in Maynooth Studies in Local History Series 2004]
• Micheál McDermott, ‘The Shirley estate in south Monaghan and the development of Gypsum mining, 1800-1936’.  [Published in Maynooth Studies in Local History Series 2009]
• Joseph Mooney, ‘Changing fortunes on the Headfort estate, 1877-91’ [to be published in Maynooth Local History Series, 2012]
• Hazel Mulligan, ‘Augustus Frederick FitzGerald, 3rd Duke of Leinster and his Kildare estates, 1812-52’.
• Helen O’Brien, ‘The Famine in Toomevara, County Tipperary’  [Published in Maynooth Local History Series 2010]
• Elaine O’Carroll, ‘The working of the Board of Guardians of Thomastown Poor Law Union, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny, 1876-1885’.
• Sarah O’Connell, ‘Agrarian outrages in Co Meath, 1917-1923’.
• Brid Marie Solan, ‘Land, life and liquor on the island of Arranmore, Co. Donegal, 1815-25'.  

M.A.

• William J. Boggs, ‘Belvedere House and its owners, 1747-2008’.
• Teresa Byrne, ‘The burning of Kilboy House in Nenagh, County Tipperary, 2 August 1922’.
• Leigh Ann Coffey, ‘The planters at Luggacurran: the experience of a Protestant community in Queen’s County, 1879-1927’   [Published in Maynooth Studies in Local History Series 2006]
• Richard Coplen, ‘The burning of Moydrum Castle, 3 July 1921’.
• Ann Marie Meehan, ‘The cultural and political transformation of Sir Shane Leslie, 1885-1914’.