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Mr Liam Alex Heffron

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Biography

Liam Alex Heffron is an award-winning entrepreneur, actor and historian. He published No Revolution - Igniting war in North Mayo, 1917-1923, (Mayo County Library, 2018) based on his MA thesis and is the founding director of ANSEO.ie. This unique heritage project is creating a digital archive of all national school records, with crowd-sourced volunteers cataloging, imaging and tagging each record page and document.  

His PhD is titled The revolutionary intersection of land hunger, social justice impulse, and memory in the rural west of Ireland, 1918-1923, at the Department of History, National University of Ireland, Galway. Research interests include the History of Geography, History of History and Cultural History with particular focus on utilising Oral History, and History from Below to investigate the Irish Revolution and its' antecedents.

Research Interests

Research interests include; Oral History and History from Below with subjects; the Irish Revolution in the west of Ireland and its 18th & 19th century antecedents arising from land-hunger, cultural memory and social justice impulses, History of Irish National Schools, Folk memory, Medieval and early Irish History.

Peer Reviewed Journals

  Year Publication
(2018) 'Book Review - Donal Hall and Martin Maguire, eds, County Louth and the Irish Revolution, 1912-1923'
Liam Alex Heffron (2018) 'Book Review - Donal Hall and Martin Maguire, eds, County Louth and the Irish Revolution, 1912-1923'. Saothar: Journal Of The Irish Labour History Society, 43 :159-160 [Details]
(2016) 'Reviewed Work: Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh, (editor) - The GAA and Revolution in Ireland 1913-1923'
Liam Alex Heffron (2016) 'Reviewed Work: Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh, (editor) - The GAA and Revolution in Ireland 1913-1923'. History Ireland, 24 (3):65-65 [Details]

Books

  Year Publication
(2018) No Revolution: Igniting War in North Mayo, 1917-1923.
Liam Alex Heffron (2018) No Revolution: Igniting War in North Mayo, 1917-1923. Mayo: Mayo County Library. [Details]

Honours and Awards

  Year Title Awarding Body
2015 EXPLORE - NUI Galway Award for Innovation Partnership NUI Galway

Education

  Year Institution Qualification Subject
2016 National University of Ireland, Galway MASTERS DEGREE (LEVEL 9) Degree of Masters of Arts - History

Consultancy

  Client Description
Moygownagh Community Council
Providing heritage advice and project management to the community council in their plans of development heritage sites in central North Mayo, most notably in their development with Coillte, of the Blanemore Forest Walk in North Mayo. This archaeological walk through a commercial conifer forest features megalithic tombs and bronze-age standing stones, stone rows and pre-bogs walls - all part of the 6,000 year old extensive neolithic farming settlement in the North West of which the nearby Ceide Fields is the most renowned example. www.blanemoreforest.com

Community Engagement

  Title Type From / To
Advocacy The ANSEO! Project - digitising our national school records 01-DEC-15 / 31-DEC-18

Teaching Interests

Oral History and History from Below, examining; the Irish Revolution in the west of Ireland and its 18th & 19th century antecedents arising from land-hunger, cultural memory and social justice impulses, History of Irish National Schools, Folk memory, Medieval and early Irish History.