I offer modules primarily in the field of modern Irish history at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. I am particularly happy to supervise students working on the history of crime and the law and on modern Irish history and the history of migration from Ireland. As part of an inter-institutional agreement between Trinity and Carlow College, I am also designing, and contributing to, a new four year inter-disciplinary programme in Irish history and culture entitled 'Reimagining Ireland

My primary research interests lie in the fields of modern Irish, Scottish and American history with a particular focus on the comparative and transnational history of violence and the law. I have a particular interest in the history of violence and the law in Ireland and among Irish migrants in Glasgow, San Francisco, New York and Toronto as well as in rural Ontario and Pennsylvania in the nineteenth century. I have also published work in the field of European criminal justice history and have a keen interest in interdisciplinary approaches to history. In collaboration with fellow researchers at the University of Cambridge, Ohio State University, the University of Bern and Winthorp University, I am a co-director of the Historical Violence Database. Prior to my arrival at Trinity College Dublin, I also held research fellowships at a range of universities outside of Ireland including Stanford University, New York University, the University of Tampere and the University of Edinburgh