Dónal Hassett is a colonial historian. His research focuses on two key interrelated fields of study: the history of the French Empire, in particular North Africa, and the legacies of conflict, especially veteran studies. He has published widely on these topics and his first monograph…

Dr Eoghan Moloney is Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Ancient History in the Department of Ancient Classics and formerly senior lecturer in Classical Studies at the University of Winchester (2015-2022) as well as lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Adelaide (2006-2012)…

Dr John Paul Newman is Associate Professor in Twentieth-century European History. He is interested in the modern history of the Southeastern and East-Central Europe, with a particular focus on Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Macedonia. His first book, Yugoslavia..

Dr Raul Cârstocea is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century European History. He completed his PhD at University College London and has previously worked as Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Leicester, Lecturer in European Studies at the Europa Universität Flensburg, Senior Research…

Roisín Higgins did her degree and PhD at the University of St Andrews and has taught at universities in England, Ireland and Scotland. Her research focuses on the dynamic relationship between past and present, and the ways in which individuals and societies remember and…

Donal joined the school of law as an Assistant Professor in Law in August 2020. In January 2023, Donal was appointed an Affiliate Researcher of the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt am Main. Donal’s research interests are in the fields of public law and legal history. His interests are…

Conor McCarthy is Senior Lecturer in English at Maynooth University. After schooling in Ireland and Canada, he took his BA in English and Sociology at Trinity College Dublin (1989), his Master’s Degree in English at University College Dublin (1991) and his D.Phil. in English at Sussex (1996)…

I am Associate Professor in Postcolonial and Global Literatures. I joined the Department of English at Maynooth University in January 2018 after being Lecturer in World Literature at Goldsmiths (University of London), and previously, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at…

Liam Mac Amhlaigh is a scholar of contemporary literature and of lexicography.My research interests include contemporary Irish-language literature (especially modern poetry), Modern Irish-language lexicography, digital humanities of Modern Irish, and the history of the Irish language in the 20th century. I have published extensively in these areas.

Tá Riocárd Ó hOddail ina Ollamh Cúnta i Roinn na Spáinnise agus an Léinn Mheiriceá Laidinigh in Ollscoil Mhá Nuad. Bhain sé dochtúireacht sa Chatalóinis amach ó Queen Mary (Ollscoil Londain) sa bhliain 2021. Bhí sé ina Chomhalta Iardhochtúireachta Ahmanson-Getty ag UCLA (California)…

Mette Lebech holds her degrees from the Universities of Copenhagen, Louvain-la-neuve and Leuven. She has taught in Maynooth University since 1998 and before that for 3 years at the University of Copenhagen, where she also was a member of the Centre for Ethics and Law. She has worked principally on the themes of Human Dignity…

Estelle Murphy is a musicologist with two areas of specialism: English and Irish music of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and contemporary popular music (specifically heavy metal).
Estelle completed her undergraduate degree at University College Cork, where she developed a love of …

My first degree was in Spanish Literature and Linguistics. I did it in the University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain, and at the time I thought that my career would be in linguistics as I loved sociolinguistics, in particular the gender perspective. However, after a postgraduate year at the University of Durham in the UK studying literature, I realized that my heart was split into the two disciplines but that there was something linking them: my interest to understand Spanish society through the parameters of gender. I did my PhD at Durham on the work of the Spanish writer Carmen Martin Gaite. After analysing the critical reception of her work in different periods in terms of a specific rhetoric about women and writing I came to the conclusion that despite Gaite´s contradictory public relationship with feminist theory and practice in Spain, her writing was informed by feminist struggles in Spain in a number of ways. Within the same framework and driven by Gaite´s and my own interest on popular culture, I developed an interest in popular music. In the same contradictory ways that Gaite related to a particular kind of feminism, “coplas” have been identified with specific discourses andparticularly with the conservative of the Franco regime. As in the case of Gaite, I argue that “coplas” have been historically informed by feminist struggles in a number of ways and that they have negotiated with different discourses in order to keep their popularity and to carry on opening a window in women’s lives. 

I studied History and Philosophy in Trinity College Dublin, where I also concluded my PhD in History. I joined NUI Maynooth in 1997/8. I have published widely in aspects of contemporary Portuguese and Spanish history. In 2005/6 I was a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais, in the University of Lisbon, and in 2012/13 I was the FLAD/Brown Michael Teague Visiting Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University. I was elected to the Royal Irish Academy in 2017.

Niall Ó Cuileagáin is a Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow working on a project entitled Rural Radicals: Modernity and Modernism in Rural Ireland, 1900-1950. This project focuses on four politically radical writers—W.P. Ryan, Peadar O’Donnell, Teresa Deevy, and Máirtín Ó Cadhain—most of whom came from rural Ireland and made rural matters a central concern in their interrogations of modernity and visions of the nation. Niall’s forthcoming monograph, James Joyce, Rural Ireland and Modernity: Beyond the Pale(Edinburgh University Press, 2025), is based on the Wolfson-funded PhD he completed at University College London in 2022. It offers a reappraisal of the dominant Dublin-centric readings of Joyce by delving into his depictions of rural and provincial Ireland. Niall’s research has also been published in James Joyce in Italy, the Dublin James Joyce Journal and the Review of Irish Studies in Europe.