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Staff

‌	Dr Róisín Healy Head of History Rm. 415, Tower 1, Floor 2 Tel: +353 (0)91 492551 roisin.healy@universityofgalway.ie
	Ms Helena Condon Administrator (part-time) Rm. 405, Tower 1, Floor 2 Tel: +353 (0)91 492537 helena.condon@universityofgalway.ie
	Mr Liam O'Neill Administrator (part-time) Rm. 405, Tower 1, Floor 2 Tel: +353 (0)91 492537 liam.oneill@universityofgalway.ie

Academic Staff

	Dr Gearóid Barry, PhD (Uni of Dub) Head of Final Year Head of BA History Exams Officer Room 401, Tower 1, Floor 2 Tel: +353 (0)91 493342 gearoid.barry@universityofgalway.ie
	Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley, PhD (NUI) Vice-Dean for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Staff Development Room 407, Tower 1, Floor 2 Tel: +353 (0)91 494294 sarahanne.buckley@universityofgalway.ie
	Professor Enrico Dal Lago, Laurea in Lettere (Roma), M.A. (Kansas), M.A., Ph.D. (Lond.), D.Litt. (NUI), MRIA Established Professor of History Sabbatical Leave until end of February 2025 Room 406, Tower 1, Floor 2 Tel: +353 (0)91 493546 enrico.dallago@universityofgalway.ie
	Dr Shannon Devlin, PhD (QUB) Room 404, Tower 1, Floor 2 Tel: +353 (0)91 495642 shannon.devlin@universityofgalway.ie
	Dr Chris Doyle, PhD (NUI) Room 411, Tower 1, Floor 2 cdoyle@universityofgalway.ie
	Dr Tomás Finn, PhD (NUI) Head of Second Year Director of Postgraduate Studies in History Room 312, Tower 1, Floor 1 Tel: +353 (0)91 492552 tomas.finn@universityofgalway.ie
	Professor Alison Forrestal, M.A. (NUI), Ph.D. (Manchester), MRIA Head of School Room 412, Tower 1, Floor 2 Tel: +353 (0)91 495629 alison.forrestal@universityofgalway.ie
	Dr. Róisín Healy, M.A., (NUI), M.A.G.E.S., Ph.D. (Georgetown), MRIA Head of Department Director of MA History Room 415, Tower 1, Floor 2 Tel: +353 (0)91 492551 roisin.healy@universityofgalway.ie
	An tOllamh/Professor Breandán Mac Suibhne Director of MA Recruitment Room 410, Tower 1, Floor 2 Tel: +353 (0)91 493019 breandan.macsuibhne@universityofgalway.ie
	Dr. Laurence Marley, M.A. PhD, (NUI) Head of First Year Academic Integrity Officer Room 409, Tower 1, Floor 2 Tel: +353 (0)91 493791 laurence.marley@universityofgalway.ie
	Professor Pól Ó Dochartaigh PhD, DLitt (Nottingham), FRHistS, FHEA, FRSA, MRIA Sabbatical Leave until 30 April 2026 Room 403, Tower 1, Floor 2 Tel: +353 (0)91 493722 pol.odochartaigh@universityofgalway.ie
	Dr. Kevin O'Sullivan, Ph.D. (Dub) Research Seminar Convenor Room 413, Tower 1, Floor 2 Tel: +353 (0)91 493625 kevin.k.osullivan@universityofgalway.ie
	Dr. Anita Rupprecht Room 414, Tower 1, Floor 2 Tel: +353 (0)91 493099 anita.rupprecht@universityofgalway.ie
	Dr. Jackie Uí Chionna, M.A. (UCC), H.Dip.Ed. (TCD), Ph.D. (NUIG) Room 314, Floor 1 jackie.uichionna@universityofgalway.ie

Additional Academics Teaching Modules in History

An tOllamh/Professor James Livesey

BA MA (UCC) PhD (Harvard)
An Leas-Uachtarán don Taighde agus Nuálaíocht, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe
Vice President for Research and Innovation, University of Galway

e-mail/r-phost: jlivesey@universityofgalway.ie

Professor Ciara Meehan
Dean of Students
Office of the Dean of Students

E-mail: ciara.meehan@universityofgalway.ie

Dr David Doolin
Lecturer (Above the Bar) in Transdisciplinary Learning
Designing Futures

E-mail: david.doolin@universityofgalway.ie

Honorary Professor

Professor Kerby Miller
PhD (Berkeley)

Honorary Professor of History
University of Galway

Email: kerby.miller@universityofgalway.ie

Postdoctoral Scholars

‘Dr José Shane Brownrigg-Gleeson Martinez, ‘The Global Irish and the Re-Imagining of Latin America during the Age of Revolutions (1776-1848)’ - Funded by the Irish Research Council, (€91,720) 2019-2021’ (Mentored by Enrico Dal Lago).

Dr Ruth A. Canning ‘Personal and Corporate Petitions during Ireland’s Nine Years’ War, 1594-1603’ – Funded by the Moore Visiting Fellowship, 2017 (Mentored by Pádraig Lenihan).

Dr David Convery, 'The British working-class and Ireland, 1922-45: Identity, representation and postcolonialism’ – Funded by the Irish Research Council (€91,720), 2014-16 (Mentored by John Cunningham).

Dr Alice Colombo, ‘The transnational mobility of cheap print: British chapbooks in Italy, 1800-1850’ – Funded by the European Commission Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (€174,000), 2015-2017 (Mentored by Niall Ó Ciosáin).

Dr Regina Donlon, ‘The Tuke Irish in Minnesota: A Transnational Analysis of Assisted Emigration to the American Midwest, 1880-1930’ - Funded by the Irish Research Council, (€91,720) 2014-2016 (Mentored by Enrico Dal Lago).

Dr Máirín MacCarron – Funded by the National University of Ireland, Garret FitzGerald Research Fellowship in the Humanities, 2012-2015 (€104,000 + €26,000), 2012-2015 (Mentored by Dáíbhí Ó Cróinín).

Dr Ciaran McCabe, ‘Begging, charity and religion in pre-famine and famine Ireland - Funded by the Irish Research Council (€45,895), 2015-2016 (Mentored by Niall Ó Ciosáín).

Dr Andrew Phemister, ‘Irish boycotting and the development of modern liberal thought’ - Funded by the Irish Research Council (€91,720), 2018-20 (Mentored by John Cunningham).

Dr Niamh Wycherly - Funded by the Irish Research Council (€52,000), 2017-2018 (Mentored by Dáibhí Ó Cróinín).