I teach freshman modules on Irish and British social and cultural history. At Sophister level I teach a specialist year-long module on Ireland and Empire and a one-term module on History and Fiction. I directed the M.Phil in Public History and Cultural Heritage 2011-16, and now co-direct it for 2016-17, along with Georgina Laragy. In 2015 I won the Provost’s Teaching Award at Trinity College Dublin. PhD Supervision I supervise, or co-supervise the following graduate students: Mary Hatfield, Growing up in Ireland: constructions of gender and childhood in nineteenth-century Ireland (estimated completion 2017) Jerome Devitt,, Defending Ireland from the Irish - The British and Irish Executive's reaction to Fenianism 1863-69 (estimated completion 2017) Mai Yatani, Women's Reading Habits in fin de siècle Ireland (estimated completion 2016) Katherine Browne, Defining surgical competence, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland 1784-1984 (estimated completion 2018) Antonia Hart, Irish Women in Business in the nineteenth century (estimated completion c. 2019) Graduates Sarah Hunter, Health of a nation - the physical and societal impact of Irish medical missionaries working in Bengal, 1885-1935 (Graduated 2016)

My research has mostly focused on elites and elite education, something very much at the core of both of my books, Irish Elites (2013) and Catholics of Consequence (2014). I also occasionally publish on Irish literature 1890-1940, and have also become more and more interested in Public History since my time at TCD. My next project will be about power. Since 2014 I have been the President of the SSNCI - an interdisciplinary society dedicated to the study of nineteenth-century Ireland. In addition to this I have also been involved with a group of likeminded historians working together in the Transnational Ireland Network, and in a global research network called SPECTRESS, funded by the European Commission.