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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
	Administrator (part-time) Rm. 405, Tower 1, Floor 2 Tel: +353 (0)91 492537
	Ms Tara Ryan Atlantic Futures Project Manager Room 211, Research Office tara.ryan@universityofgalway.ie

Academic Staff

	Dr Gearóid Barry, PhD (Uni of Dub) Head of Final Year Head of BA History (Years 3-4) 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. Director of MA Recruitment and Research Seminar Convenor 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 Director of Postgraduate Research Degrees, Exams Officer 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) Sabbatical Leave 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 James Livesey BA MA (UCC) PhD (Harvard) *Sabbatical leave until 1 August 2026* jlivesey@universityofgalway.ie
	An tOllamh/Professor Breandán Mac Suibhne Sabbatical leave until 1 Sept 2025 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) Sabbatical until 1 Sept 2025 Room 413, Tower 1, Floor 2 Tel: +353 (0)91 493625 kevin.k.osullivan@universityofgalway.ie
	Dr. Anita Rupprecht Erasmus/International Co-Ordinator and Director of BA History (Years 1-2) 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

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

Current Postdoctoral Scholars & Projects

Dr Aoife O'Leary McNeice, 'Adaptation, globalisation and loss: A more-than-human history of hydro-electricity in mid-century Ireland' - Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship (2024-2026). Mentored by Kevin O'Sullivan.

Former Postdoctoral Scholars & Projects

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).