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Dr Margaret O'Callaghan
School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and PoliticsMargaret O’ Callaghan works on cultural identity in the Irish Free state; crime , nationality and the law in Victorian Ireland; the high politics of Britain in Ireland since 1880; Irish political thought; women in independent Ireland; Roger Casement and the British Empire ; genealogies of partition ; the politics of commemoration; the ‘pre-Troubles’ Troubles.
She is currently working on Conor Cruise O’ Brien , female Irish political autobiography and Alice Stopford Green and her circles.
Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the field of
- Modern Irish history and politics/the politics of Irish literature
- The politics of commemoration
- British high politics and Ireland
Research students
| PhD Title | Partition in international proto Commonwealth context |
| PhD Title | Nuns and the Troubles in Northern Ireland |
Alumni: Where are they now
| PhD Title | Race, History, Nationality; an intellectual history of the Young Ireland movement 1840-52 |
| Current Position | Elected to a Busteed Fellowship at the Institute of Irish Studies University of Liverpool 2018 |
| PhD Title | Douglas Savoury and his Ulster Unionist circles |
| Current Position | Teaching in the US |
| PhD Title | Eire Nua and the political thought of its latterly displaced architects within Sinn Fein and the IRA |
| Country | USA |