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Failure and flexibility in Plantation Munster: the O’Driscolls at law
- 01 June 2023,
- Between the early sixteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries, a simple inheritance dispute arose over the O’Driscoll lordship of Collymore in west Cork, in the...

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A new agenda for women’s and gender history in Ireland
- 17 January 2023,
- The publication of this special issue, seeks to recognise the significant impact of the 1992 ‘Agenda’ on Irish scholarship

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‘Almost all the world’s most notable catastrophes have been caused by women’? Reassessing Derbforgaill
- 09 May 2022,
- There can be little doubt that the Anglo-Norman (or English) invasion of the twelfth century was one of the most important events of Irish history. By the time...
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The Franco-German Brigade: A Mirror of Integration—and Its Limits
- 30 September 2025,
- When the Franco-German Brigade (FGB) was established in 1989, it was hailed as a unique experiment in postwar Europe. Never before had soldiers from two former...

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Political Disinformation on the Eve of Reform
- 26 September 2025,
- The ‘Vote Leave’ or ‘Brexit’ bus which toured the UK in 2016 plastered with the blunt assertion ‘We send the EU £350 million a week’ is an infamous recent example...

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The IVF Pioneers: Who Really Wrote Their Autobiography?
- 26 September 2025,
- This blog post is about the author’s recent paper in Medical History, The ghostwriter and the test-tube baby: a medical breakthrough story For 45 years A Matter of Life has provided the standard account of the science and medicine behind the sensational birth of the first ‘test-tube baby’.…...
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