Education:

MPhil, Modern Irish History, Trinity College, Dublin
MA, English Literature and History, University of Edinburgh

Research Interests:

20th century Irish-America; the Irish Diaspora and Catholicism; U.S. immigration, ethnicity, and race

Awards and Fellowships

• University Dissertation Fellowship, Boston College, 2011-2012
• Littleton-Griswold Research Grant, American Historical Association, June 2011
• Research Travel Grant, Cushwa Center, University of Notre Dame, 2011
• Dorothy Mohler Research Grant, American Catholic History Research Center, Catholic University of America, 2011
• Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award, B.C. May, 2010
• Summer Research Stipend, Clough Center for Constitutional Studies, Boston College. Summer, 2010
• Irish Studies Fellowship, Boston College
• Irish Fulbright Commission Award in Humanities 2007/08
• Janet S. Christie Award, University of Edinburgh, 2005

Conference Presentations:

• “Ethnic Pluralism and Father Patrick Peyton’s Family Rosary Crusade in the United States, 1942-1960,” American Conference for Irish Studies, State College, PA. 5-8th May, 2010
• “Ethnic Pluralism and Father Patrick Peyton’s Family Rosary Crusade in the United States, 1942-1960,” Biennial Boston College Conference on the History of Religion, Chestnut Hill, MA. 19th-20th March, 2010.
• “‘The Secret of Ireland’: The Revival of Ethnic Identity and the Family Rosary Crusade in the United States, 1942-1960,” Irish Association for American Studies Postgraduate Symposium, University College Cork, Ireland. 16th January, 2010.
• "'Britain’s Last Colony’: Postcolonial Rhetoric and the Irish-American Movement for Civil Rights in Northern Ireland, 1967-1972," The Northeast Conference on British Studies, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, November 15, 2008.
• “John Mitchel and The Citizen: Mid-Nineteenth Century Irish Immigration and American Citizenship,” The New England Historical Association, Endicott College, Beverly, Massachusetts, October 25, 2008.