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Public talks and presentations:
• Irish History Teachers Association, Dublin AGM, November 2020: 'The impact of the Troubles'.
• History Ireland Hedge School, with Siobhán Doyle, Fearghal McGarry and Joe Connell Jr, 'History, Memory and Bloody Sunday, 1920', November 2020.
• History Ireland Hedge School, with Marie Coleman, Brian Walker and Kieran Glennon, 'Belfast and the North, 1920-22'
• History Ireland Hedge School, with May Moran and John Burke, 'The West's Awake' Revolution in Roscommon, 1916-21
• 'Tans and Auxies' at the Fingal Festival of History, Swords Castle, September 2020.
• History Ireland Hedge School with Kate O'Malley, Cécile Gordon and John Gibney on the centenary of the Connaught Rangers Mutiny, June 2020.
• Discussion on Sean Russell with John Flannery on Trasna na Tire, June 2020.
• 'The end of Civil War politics?' Discussion with Eddie O'Sullivan on Eddie's Edge, June 2020.
• 'Republicans and crime' on the Irish History Show podcast, May 2020.
• 'Refugees in the Republic' Discussion with Eddie O'Sullivan on Eddie's Edge podcast, May 2020.
• Panellist, History Ireland Hedge School 'Strikes, Soviets and land seizures', May 2020, with Mary Muldowney, Sarah Anne Buckley and John Cunningham.
• 'The burning of the British embassy' discussion with Donal Fallon on Three Castles Burning podcast, April 2020.
• Panellist, History Ireland Hedge School 'Teaching controversial subjects', Irish Teachers Association conference, Dublin, March 2020 (with Jim Herlhy, Mary McAuliffe and Deirdre Mac Mathúna.
• Discussion with Vincent Browne on the impact of the Troubles during the 1970s, Dublin, February 2020.
• 'Boiling volcano?': the challenges of writing about the impact of the Troubles on the south', Queens University Belfast, February, 2020.
• Panellist (with Mary McAuliffe) discussion on Peter Lennon's 'The Rocky Road to Dublin', Phizzfest, Dublin, January 2020.
• Discussion on the Black and Tans and the RIC with Ken Early on Second Captains, 10 Jan. 2020.
• Panellist (with Lindsay Earner-Byrne & Linda Connolly) 'An inconvenient truth?' Sexual violence and the Irish Revolution' History Ireland Hedge School, National Photographic Archive, Dublin, November 2019.
• 'Something deep was stirring': the impact of August 1969, Drumcondra public library, November 2019.
• Panellist (with Margaret Ward & Emmet O'Connor) 'Labour, the North and the National Question' Conference, Labour, Gender, Class and the Struggle for Irish Independence, NUI Galway, November 2019.
• Panellist (with Theresa Moriarty & Patrick Mahoney) 'The Irish Labour Diaspora and the Struggle for Independence' Conference, Labour, Gender, Class and Independence, NUI Glaway, November 2019.
• 'The Border and the Republic's accession to the EEC', Conference, 'The Future of the Irish Border and the European Union's Role', Castleblayney, Monaghan, October 2019.
• 'Something deep was stirring': the impact of August 1969, Drumcondra public library, October 2019.
• 'Loaded with dynamite: Ireland's global revolution', Dublin Festival of History, Dublin City Library & Archives, October 2019.
• 'The Irish Struggle for Independence', Abbeyleix library, Co. Laois, September 2019.
• History Ireland Hedge School: 'Censorship- then and now', (with Sarah-Anne Buckley and Donal Fallon) Electric Picnic, September 2019.
• 'The Irish Struggle for Independence', Laois County Library History Lecture Series, Portarlington, Co. Laois, August 2019.
• Panellist (with Mary McAuliffe, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa & Senia Paseta), 'The personal and the political in Irish history and historiography' Activist Histories of Ireland Conference, Oxford, July 2019.
• 'The Irish and the Jews have a good deal in common': Irish republicans, anti-Semitism and the post-war world', Global Irish Revolution workshop, University of Edinburgh, June 2019.
• 'Something deep was stirring': the impact of August 1969 on the Republic', Conference 1969: the Outbreak of the Troubles in Northern Ireland' QUB, Belfast, June 2019.
• Participant (with Jim Slaven, Liz Gillis and Donal Fallon) at SIPTU Mayfest 2019: songs and stories in honour of James Connolly.
• 'Militants and rebels' panellist (with Charlie Maguire, Sean Donnelly and Tim Ellis) at the 'Pints and Politics' discussion at the Teesside Irish Festival, Stockon-on-Tees, May 2019.
• 'From Baginbun to Brexit' 850 Years of oppression?' History Ireland Hedge School, Dublin, May 2019.
• 'A celebration of the First Dáil' Mansion House, Dublin, January 2019.
• Panelist, 'The 1918 General Election and the break-up of the United Kingdom' (with Sonja Tiernan, Ewen Cameron & Alvin Jackson) University of Edinburgh, December 2018.
• Panelist, Richard Grayson's 'Dublin's Great Wars' launch and discussion, Falls Road Library, Belfast, December 2018.
• '1918: from Ballots to Bullets' History Ireland Hedge School (with Niamh Puirseil and Liz Gillis) National Photographic Archive, Dublin, December 2018.
• 'Civil rights internationally and the crisis of the Sixties' Fellowship of Messines, Shankill Road, Belfast, December 2018.
• 'The Conscription Crisis 1918: the nail in the coffin?' Countess Markievicz Memorial Lecture, Irish Association for Industrial Relations, Dublin, November 2018.
• 'We shall overcome': civil rights 1968 from Memphis to Derry' Seán O'Casey centre, East Wall, Dublin, November 2018.
• '1918: political earthquake or same old same old?' History Ireland Hedge School, Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal, November 2018 (with Padriac Travers, Brian Walker and Margaret O'Callaghan).
• 'Shake hands with the Devil' CCA, Glasgow, October 2015.
• 'Boiling volcano? the South responds to the Northern Troubles' Cabra public library, Dublin, September 2018.
• '1918: Ireland united or divided?' Tallaght public library, Dublin, September 2018.
• 'The most important city': Liverpool and the Irish Revolution' Port and Maritime History conference, Liverpool, September 2018.
• Participant in discussion on 'Dealing with conflict legacy in the Republic of Ireland, 1969-1998', National University of Ireland, Dublin, September 2018.
• Participant in History Ireland Hedge School (with John Horne, Jennifer Wellington and John Gibney), '1918: the New World Order', Electric Picnic, Stradbally, Co. Laois, September 2018.
• 'The Negro peoples are beginning to realise their powers …' Global Irish Revolution workshop, Belfast, June 2018.
• 'Very dangerous places': the IRA and the post-war underworld', American Conference for Irish Studies, Cork, June 2018.
• 'James Connolly and the 1916 Rising' Glasgow, June 2018.
• 'The 1918 General Election: Ireland united or divided?' Centenaries & Citizenship Project, Belfast, June 2018.
• 'Connolly: socialist and soldier' James Connolly 150 conference, Edinburgh, June 2018.
• '1968: Ireland then and now' at 'Realising utopia, 1968' conference, Limerick, May 2018.
•'You will still break stone: power and the state': new approaches to Irish Revolutionary History', Trinity College Dublin, May 2018.
• 'The role of the Catholic Church': 'Anti-Conscription Conference, 100 Years On', Mansion House, Dublin, April 2018.
• 'The end of British rule in the not too distant future': republicans and Civil Rights', Remembering 1968 event, Queens University Belfast, March 2018.
• 'The 1918 General Election': lecture at Peoples College, Dublin, March 2018.
• Panellist, History Ireland Hedge School on John Redmond (with Martin O'Donoghue & Dermot Meleady), Athlone, March 2018.
• 'The other minority: southern Protestants and the early years of the Northern Ireland conflict'; University of Edinburgh, Modern Irish History seminar series, January 2018.
• Panellist, discussion 'Lessons of the Russian Revolution' Kevin McMahon memorial lecture, Liberty Hall, Dublin, November 2017.
• 'Red scares and rebels: Communism and Ireland, 1917-1937', City Hall, Dublin, October 2017.
• 'Collective Reminiscing: the Tenement Museum's Ongoing Oral History Project' at Henrietta Street/Hentown: from Georgian beginnings to tenement living', Dublin, October 2017.
• ''The layers of an onion': labour, class and post-Rising Ireland' at conference 'The death of political pluralism? Ireland after the Rising, 1916-18' Glasnevin Museum, September 2017.
• Panelist, History Ireland Hedge School, Electric Picnic, September 2017, 'The Bolshevik Revolution, 100 hundred years on: the dustbin of history?'
• 'Women of the poorer class': Women and the Irish Revolution conference, Dublin, September 2017.
• 'The radical thirties' at Shankill Road library, Belfast, August 2017.
• 'Irish republicans and sport since 1923' at GAA museum Summer School, Croke Park, June 2017.
• Three lecture series on the Irish Revolution, 1917-23 at Dublin Central Library and Archive, June 2017.
• 'The IRA in the twilight years' Raheny, Pembroke, Rathmines, Central and Ballymun libraries, April 2017.
• 'The Life and Times of Charlie Donnelly' Dundalk and the International Brigades, Dundalk, March 2017.
• 'Labour after 1916' People's College, Dublin, February 2017.
• 'Boiling volcano: North and South in the 70s' Centre for Contemporary History, TCD, February 2017.
• 'The Rising and its aftermath in Phibsborough and Glasnevin 1916-17' Glasnevin Museum, January 2017.
• 'Reflections on the Centenaries' Old Athlone Society, Athlone, January 2017.
• 'Tuppence hapenny looking down on tuppence?' Class and the Second Dáil' Workshop on the Treaty debates, NUI, Dublin, Nov. 2016.
• Panellist: 'All changed? Ireland 1917-1918' History Ireland Hedge School, National Library of Ireland, Dublin, November 2016.
• Panellist: 'Keeping their heads down? Protestants in independent Ireland' History Ireland Hedge School, Allingham festival, Ballyshannon, November 2016.
• 'The IRA, Republican Congress and the Blueshirts: a reappraisal' Ireland and the Spanish Republic conference, Dublin, October 1916.
• 'James Connolly and Margaret Skinnider': Monaghan Signatories', Carrickmacross, Castleblayney and Monaghan, October 2016.
• 'Richard O'Carroll, labour and 1916', Finglas library, Dublin, September 2016.
• 'Shared history?': at 'Reframing 1916: History and Legacies of the Easter Rising' symposium, School of Canadian Irish Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, September 2016.
• History Ireland Hedge School, Electric Picnic, Stradbally, Co. Laois 'The Somme- heroic sacrifice or senseless slaughter?' (with Eamonn McCann, Jason Burke, Jennifer Wellington and John Gibney), September 2016.
• '1916: Irishmen for and against the Empire', Féile an Phobail, Belfast, August 2016.
• 'The layers of an onion': class and the memory of the Irish Revolution', Parnell Summer School, Avondale, Co. Wicklow, August 2016.
• 'The cause of Ireland is the cause of Labour': OPW lecture series 'Who fears to speak of Easter Week?', Desmond Castle, Newcastle West, Co. Limerick, July 2016.
• 'Liam Mellows and the Irish Revolution' Teagasc, Farming and Country Life 1916 Festival, Athenry, Galway, June 2016.
• 'Shared history? Reflections on war and revolution' Goldsmith International Literary Festival, Ballymahon, Co. Longford, June 2016.
• 'The Proclamation': Proclaim Again 2016, Nenagh, Tipperary, May 2016.
• 'Ireland, Africa, War and Empire': Africa Centre annual lecture, Dublin, May 2016.
• '1916 in Phibsborough': 1916 in Our Street, MPM Residents event, Palmerston Place, Dublin 7, May 2016.
• '1916 around Grangegorman': DIT Grangegorman local schools exhibition, April 2016.
• 'The men and women of 1916': Coláiste Mhuire, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, April 2016.
• 'Dublin before the Rising' Ballymun Adult Read and Write Scheme, 1916 Commemorative event, Ballymun, April 2016.
• 'In the face of the world': the Easter Rising' Comóradh 16 lecture, Bradford City Hall, April 2016.
• 'The rebels of Cabra and Phibsborough' at 'Easter Rebellion 1916' a day of events organised by Cabra 1916 Rising Committee and East Wall History Group, City Hall, Dublin, April 2016.
• 'Dublin and Belfast in 1916: two cities, two Irelands?': Ballyfermot, Raheny and Coolock public libraries, April 1916.
• 'Shake Hands with the Devil': Filmhouse, Edinburgh, March 2016.
• 'Remembering War and Revolution', Castledermot Local History Group, Co. Kildare, March 2016.
• 'The Rebels and the Rabble: inner-city Dubliners and the Rising', RTE Reflecting the Rising, Dublin, March 2016.
• 'Cabra and Phibsborough in 1916' Cabra Library, Dublin, March 2016.
• 'The revolution betrayed?' Jacobin 1916 launch, Workers Republic conference, Dublin, March 2016.
• Guest speaker, Irish American Labor Coalition St. Patrick's Day breakfast, Manhattan, New York, March 2016.
• Guest speaker, Transport Workers Union Local 100's Mike Quill/James Connolly commemoration, Brooklyn, New York, March 2016.
• Panellist, History Ireland Hedge School, 'Jack Duggan's War' All Saint's Church, Phibsborough, March 2016.
• Panellist, 'The relevance of James Connolly' Five Lamps Festival, Marino College Dublin, March 2016.
• 'Cabra & Phibsborough in 1916', St. Dominic's College, Cabra, March 2016.
• 'Dublin in 1916': Reviewing the Rising, Dublin City Library & Archive, February 2016.
• 'Dublin Burning: three lectures on 1916': 'On the Eve' 'Thank God we have lived to see this day' & 'Who fears to speak': Dublin City Library service, Central, Rathmines, Walkinstown and Ballymun branches, February-March 2016.
• 'The Irish Citizen Army': 'People Remembering People' The People's College Remembers 1916, Dublin, January 2016.
• 'Labour and Easter Week' 1916 in Context, conference, St. Patrick's College, Dublin City University, January 2016.
• 'The Ireland of our ideals: Republicans and Separatists in 1916' Proclaiming the Revolution conference, National University of Ireland Galway, January 2016.
• 'Commemoration and its discontents', MA SPACE, Limerick Institute of Technology, November 2015.
• 'Who fears to speak?' Newcastle Historical Society conference, 'Changed utterly', Newcastle, Co. Tipperary, October 2015.
• Panellist, (with Padraig Yeates and Emmet O'Connor) 'Connolly: socialist and soldier' Irish Labour History Society conference, October 2015.
• 'Boiling volcano' the south responds to the Northern 'Troubles', St. Patrick's DCU History Society, October 2015.
• Panellist, 'The beautiful game or the garrison game: League of Ireland football', Dublin Festival of History, September 2015 (with Ciaran Priestly, Cormac Moore and Donal Fallon).
• Panellist, 'Charlie: the Hedge School'; Electric Picnic, September 2015 (with Donal Fallon, Martin Manseragh and Colm Keena).
• 'Who fears to speak of Easter Week?' Newcastlewest, Co. Limerick, August 2015.
• 'Who fears to speak of Easter Week?' Listowel, Co. Kerry, August 2015.
• Panellist, '1916: Well-planned revolt or violent fiasco?' History Ireland Hedge School, (with Lorcan Collins and Ruan O'Donnell), Byrne-Perry Summer School, Wexford, June 2015.
• 'Dublin and the Easter Rising' Dublin City Library, Iilac Centre, May, 2015.
• 'Dublin and the Easter Rising' Dublin City Library, North Strand, May, 2015.
• 'Are we trying to create a new Chile here'? The Sunday World versus the National Coalition' at 'Ireland: a peculiar society' conference, NUI Galway, April 2015.
• Panellist, (with Sarah Anne Buckley and Tom Inglis) History Ireland Hedge School, 'Ireland in the 1970s' at Mechanics Institute, Galway, April 2015.
• 'Blueshirts, the Christian Front and the Right in Ireland', International Brigades Commemoration Committee, Annual Lecture, Belfast, 2015.
• Panelist, (with Fergal McCluskey, Joe Law & Sally Campbell) 'Whose History': Commemorating the 'Great War' in an age of Shock and Awe' Belfast Working Class History Group, Belfast, February, 2015.
• 'Our minority': southern Protestants and the early years of the Northern Ireland conflict', Centre for Contemporary History, TCD, January 2015.
• 'Alicia Brady, class and the memory of 1913': SIPTU and Young Workers Network, Alicia Brady commemoration, Dublin, December 2014.
• 'Researching history from below: class and crime' Limerick Institute of Technology, SPACE MA, December 2014.
• 'Dublin and World War One' History Ireland Hedge School, National Library of Ireland, November 2014. (with Ann Matthews, David Fitzpatrick and Padraig Yeates).
• '80th Anniversary of the Republican Congress' (with Tommy McKearney), Peadar O'Donnell Socialist Republican forum, Dublin, November 2014.
• 'Irish workers and World War One' SIPTU Public Administration and Community Division conference, November 2014.
• 'James Connolly and the World War' Irish Labour History Society conference, November 2014.
• 'Ireland and World War One: Look Back in Anger' John Boyle O'Reilly Autumn School, Drogheda, October 2014.
• 'Dublin and World War One' Stoneybatter and Smithfield Street Stories Festival, September 2014.
• 'The most popular of all cross-channel clubs in this country', Sports History Ireland conference, Dublin, September 2014.
• 'Limerick in the 1930s', Limerick International Brigades Trust Symposium, September 2014.
• 'The ideology of remembrance: Ireland and World War One'; (with Michael Quinn) Desmond Greaves School, Dublin, September 2014.
• History Ireland Hedge School, 'World War One: Great War or good war?' with John Horne, Ed Madigan and John Gibney, Electric Picnic, August 2014.
• 'Inter-imperialist war, 1914-1918: not a noble cause', discussion hosted by Communist Party of Ireland, Dublin, July 2014.
• 'Nationalism in 1914' The 6th Connaught Rangers: Belfast nationalists and the Great War seminar, Collins Barracks, Dublin, June 2014.
• ‘Class and the memory of 1913’ Conference organised by Derry Trades Council, Derry, December, 2013.
• ‘The Citizen Army in context 1913-1935’ ‘Red Fenians or Green Bolsheviks? Conference to mark the Centenary of the Irish Citizens Army, National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, November 2013.
• Panellist, (with Niamh Puirseil, Ann Matthews and Donal Fallon), Look Left Forum, 'Reflections on the Lockout Centenary', Dublin, November 2013.
• ‘The story of the Irish Citizens Army’ Smithfield and Stonybatter History Group, November 2013.
• The Tómas MacGiolla Lecture, ‘From Lockout to Bailout’, Nenagh, September 2013.
• ‘The impact of the 1913 Lockout’, National Gallery of Ireland, September 2013.
• Panellist, ‘JFK in Ireland: Style or Substance?’ History Ireland Hedge School, Electric Picnic, September 2013.
• ‘John Redmond, Home Rule and the Irish Volunteers’ Centenery Events Remembered, Belfast, August 2013.
• Panellist, ‘The 1913 Lockout’ History Ireland Hedge School, Dun Laoghaire 1913-2013 Weekend, August 2013.
• Panellist, ‘What happened to the Citizen Army?’ Byrne-Perry Summer School, July 2013.
• ‘1913: the Lockout and beyond’ Psychiatric Nurses Association conference, Galway, April 2013.
• ‘Frank Aiken and the IRA’ Frank Aiken: Nationalist and Internationalist, Conference, Liverpool Hope University, March 2013.
• ‘Attitudes to the IRA in southern Ireland, 1969-1998’ History Seminar series, NUI Maynooth, March 2013.
• ‘‘Remember Belfast’ The 1935 anti-Protestant outrages in the Irish Free State,’ UCD History Society, March 2013.
• ‘'The 1913 Lockout', Sinn Féin, 100th anniversary of the Lockout conference, Dublin, March 2013.
• ‘The good old IRA’ Irish nationalists respond to the Provisional IRA’s armed struggle’, Political Studies Association of Ireland conference, Derry, October, 2012.
• Panellist, History Ireland Hedge School, ‘Home Rule’, Dublin, October 2012.
• ‘A fair trail of destruction’: the GAA confronts hooliganism’, Sports History Ireland Conference, University College Cork, September 2012.
• Debate ‘Patriot war or sectarian strife: Ireland 1920-22’ John Boyle O’Reilly summer school, Drogheda, July 2012.
• Discussion (with Matt Treacy) 'New Perspectives on Republicanism during the 1960s', Ireland Institute, Dublin, 2012.
• ‘The South is in the mood for violence’: Bloody Sunday 1972 Department of History seminar, University College Dublin, March 2012.
• Panellist, History Ireland Hedge School, ‘The Enigma of Frank Ryan’ Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, February 2012.
• The Reaction to Bloody Sunday (1972) in the Republic of Ireland, Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool, February 2012.
• ‘The South is in the mood for violence’ Bloody Sunday 1972, School of History Research Seminars, University College Cork, 2011.
• ‘War of Independence, Partition and Civil War’ Centenary Events Remembered, ex-prisoners project, Coleraine, 2011.
• Panellist, ‘No Sex in Ireland until Radio Telifis Eireann’ 50 Years of RTE, History Ireland Hedge School, ‘Phizzfest’ 2011.
• Panellist, ‘The IRA and the Nazis’ History Ireland Hedge School, Electric Picnic, Laois, 2011.
• ‘August 1967: the IRA looks to the future’, The London Irish Studies Seminar Symposium, King’s College, London, 2011.
• ‘The Irish Revolution, 1916-1921’ Drogheda Cross-Border Project, Drogheda, 2011.
• ‘Labour during the Irish Revolution’ Labour Party May Day conference, Drogheda, 2011.
• ‘The nation on the march’? The reaction to Bloody Sunday (1972) in southern Ireland, Humanities Seminar Series, St. Patrick’s College, DCU, 2011.
• Panellist, ‘What happened to the Irish Citizen Army?’ History Ireland Hedge School, SIPTU May Day Weekend, Athy, Co. Kildare, 2011.
• Panellist, ‘Loyalist-Republican Interfaces: the Road to the Peace Process’ conference, School of Politics, Queens University Belfast, 2011.
• Panellist, ‘The Challenges of Contemporary History’ Irish Historical Society, 2011.
• Debate: 'Would a socialist republic solve our problems?' Republican Congress, Belfast, 2010.
• ‘Terror in Twentieth Century Ireland’, Trinity History Workshop, 2010.
• ‘Then they started all this killing’ Attitudes to the IRA in southern Ireland, 1970-1998’ Ireland Since 1966 conference, UCD, 2010.
• ‘Home Rule’, Ireland 1912-1916: Centenary Events Remembered, Ex-prisoners project, Coleraine, 2010.
• Panellist, Oral History Roundtable, Department of History, UCD, 2010.
• Panellist, Symposium, ‘40th Anniversary of the Birth of the Provisional IRA’, School of Politics, Queens University Belfast, 2009.
• Discussion (with Mick Ryan) 'Remembering 1969: History and Memory' Greaves Summer School, Dublin, 2009.
• ‘Was 1916 a Blood Sacrifice?’ Seán MacDiarmada Summer School, Kiltyclogher, Co. Leitrim, 2009.
• ‘Republicanism and sport since 1921’ ‘For Community, Club, County and Country’ Conference celebrating 125 years of the GAA, Armagh, 2009.
• ‘Researching the Official republican movement’, Department of History, University College Cork, 2009.
• ‘The Workers Party, 1982-1992’ Irish Political Studies Association Symposium, Dublin, 2008.
• ‘The IRA and August 1969 reassessed’ Irish Political Studies Association Conference, Galway, 2008.
• ‘I Ran Away?’ The IRA and 1969.’ TCD, Research Seminars in Contemporary Irish History, 2008.
• ‘Left-wing republicanism in the United States: the case of the Irish Republican Clubs 1970-1981’, Irish Association for American Studies Conference, NUI Maynooth, 2008.
• ‘Army of the People’ A new look at the IRA of the 1960s’ Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies, Queens University Belfast, 2008.
• ‘Researching the Official Republican Movement’ Irish Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies, University of London, 2008.
'The 1970 Springboks tour and local politics in Limerick' Rathkeale Historical Society, Limerick, 2008.
• ‘I Ran Away?’ The IRA of the 1960s reassessed’ Plenary Session, Department of History Research Seminars, NUI Maynooth, 2007.
• ‘Change and Continuity: the History of the IRA from 1923’ Lecture Series, The Fighting Irish, National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, 2007.
• ‘The 1970 Springboks’ Tour and local politics in Limerick’ Sports History Ireland Conference, NUI Maynooth, 2006.
• '100 Years of Sinn Féin: the 1930s' Sean Hollywood Arts Centre, Newry, 2005.
• Panellist, ‘85th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday’, GAA Museum, Croke Park, 2005.
• ‘Ireland’s peerless defender’ or ‘plain son of a bitch?’ Irish American wartime images of de Valera, 1939-45.’ De Valera Centenary Conference, UCD, 2005.
• ‘Greaves as historian’ Desmond Greaves Summer School, Dublin, 2005.
• Debate: ‘Was 1916 necessary?’ (with Professor Michael Laffan) Byrne-Perry Summer School, Co. Wexford, 2005.
• 'Historians and the Irish Revolution' Ireland Institute, Dublin, 2005.
• ‘James Connolly and the Workers Republic.’ Thomas Davis Lecture Series, RTE Radio One, 2005.
• ‘Irish American reactions to Nativism in the interwar USA.’ Seminar, Department of Ethnic and Racial Studies, TCD, 2005.
• ‘Irish Republican attitudes to sport.’ Sports History Ireland conference, UCD, 2005.
• ‘NORAID and the dilemma of Irish American conservatism.’ Seminar, Department of Contemporary Irish History, TCD, 2005.
• ‘Debating the Treaty’ (with Professor David Fitzpatrick) Contesting History: Opposing Voices, TCD, 2005.
• ‘Nationalism and Socialism: the Lockout and the Rising’ (with Professor John Horne), Contesting History: Opposing Voices, TCD, 2005.
• ‘Researching military archives.’ Guest lecture, Irish Society for the Archives, Dublin, 2004.
• ‘The Irish Citizens Army after 1916.’ Irish Labour History Society Annual Conference, Dublin, 2004.
• ‘The Irish have no apology to make to anyone’ Irish American attitudes to Irish wartime neutrality.’ American Conference for Irish Studies, Regional Conference, Princeton University, 2004.
• ‘Enemies or allies? Irish American nationalists and Jews’ Jewish Ireland conference, Belfast, 2004.
• ‘The Irish Revolution.’ Guest lecture, Boston College Summer School, DCU, 2004.
• ‘Studying the Irish Revolution.’ Guest lecture, Irish Defence Forces Cadet School, NUI Maynooth, 2004.
• ‘American support for Irish republicanism since 1922.’ Irish Historical Society, TCD, 2003.
• ‘Mike Quill, de Valera’s visit to the German Legation and Irish American attitudes to neutrality.’ Seminar, Glucksman Ireland House, New York University, 2003.
• ‘Recent scholarship on Irish republicanism.’ Parnell Summer School, Co. Wicklow, 2003.
• ‘The politics of NORAID.’ Seminar, Department of History, NUI Maynooth, 2003.
• ‘The Citizen Army and left wing paramilitarism, 1916-1936.’ Seminar, Department of Contemporary Irish History, TCD, 2003.
• ‘Change and continuity in Irish republican thought.’ Seminar, Department of History, St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, 2002.
• ‘From the 1916 Rising to the Treaty.’ Guest lecture, Boston University Summer School, DCU, 2002.
• ‘The Irish Revolution and Civil War, 1916-1923.’ Guest lecture, New York University Summer School, TCD, 2002.
• ‘Taking the gun out of politics?-the rhetoric of republican legitimacy.’ Republicanism in modern Ireland conference, NUI Maynooth, 2002.
• ‘The IRA and the Nazis: new perspectives.’ Seminar, Department of Contemporary Irish History, TCD, 2002.
• ‘The IRA and Fianna Fáil, 1926-1936.’ Seminar, Department of Modern History, TCD, 2001.
• ‘The IRA in Northern Ireland during the 1930s.’ Irish History Students Association conference, University of Limerick, 2000.
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