See my newspaper articles, guest blog posts, recorded lectures and contributions to digital history projects at the following links.

Newspaper articles

‘The Cork woman who inspired radicalism from Ireland to Russia,’ Irish Times, 8 Oct. 2019.

‘The trailblazing Galway nun who helped eradicate TB from Southeast Asia,’ Irish Times, 5 June 2019.

‘The Scotch-Irish author of America’s best-selling reading primer,’ Irish Times, 27 May 2019.

‘The Irish nun who opened schools for the deaf in Australia,’ Irish Times, 22 May 2019.

‘The Waterford naval officer who became first governor of New Zealand’, Irish Times, 26 Mar. 2019.

‘The Irish naval officers in imperial Russia’, Irish Times, 19 Mar. 2019.

‘Dubliner Frances Stewart, one of the first women pioneers in Canada’, Irish Times, 12 Mar. 2019.

‘Beatrice Grimshaw, the Belfast explorer treated as a ‘male chief’ on Samoa’, Irish Times, 5 Mar. 2019.

‘Thomas Heazle Parke, the first Irishman to cross Africa’, Irish Times, 29 Jan. 2019.

‘The ‘Irish Tinker Lady’ whose songs captivated London’, Irish Times, 16 Jan. 2019.

‘Mary Lee, the Irishwoman who campaigned for women’s rights in Australia’, Irish Times, 2 Jan. 2019.

‘Annie Besant, the first woman to endorse birth control’, Irish Times, 27 Nov. 2018.

‘Josephine Hart, writer and ‘heroine’ who inspired Herstory’, Irish Times, 20 Nov. 2018.

‘Fanny Durack, the Irish-Australian who won the first women’s Olympic swimming medal’, Irish Times, 13 Nov. 2018.

‘Flora Sandes, the only British female soldier to fight for the allies in WW1’, Irish Times, 7 Nov. 2018.

‘The pioneering Irishwomen who made exciting Space discoveries’, Irish Times, 8 Oct. 2018.

‘The Irish woman who became ‘prisoner’ of a Russian princess’, Irish Times, 24 Sept. 2018.

‘Kay McNulty, the Irish ‘mother of computer programming’’, Irish Times, 20 June 2018.

‘Remembering Donegal’s Máire de Paor’, Donegal Democrat, 25 Mar. 2018.

‘Kay McNulty: Proof that Science is for Girls’, Donegal Democrat, 9 Feb. 2018.

Recorded lectures

On 14 Nov. 2018, I delivered a lecture on Princess Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova as part of the Royal Irish Academy’s ‘Prodigies of Learning’ lecture series. Listen to the lecture here.

Listen to my lecture on John Lee’s visit to Co. Tipperary in 1806–7, delivered as part of the ‘Tipperary People and Places’ lecture series, Tipperary County Library, Thurles, 18 Oct. 2016.

Guest blog posts

‘How Northern lights have fascinated Irish people for centuries‘, RTÉ Brainstorm, 27 Feb. 2023.

‘Historical Donegal Women,’ series of guest posts for the Donegal Women’s Network website, Sept. 2019.

‘A 19th-Century Perspective on Ireland – Following in the Footsteps of John (Fiott) Lee,’ guest post for the Hakluyt Society website, 20 Feb. 2019.

‘Princess Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova,’ guest post for the Royal Irish Academy library website, 10 Jan. 2019.

‘Bog Bursts at Cappanihane, Ireland, 1697 and 1727,’ guest post for Weather Extremes project, Sept. 2016.