Essays

Essays and Peer-Reviewed Articles

Stuart Hall and the Absent Irish. Radical History Review, No. 143 (May 2022)

The Two Irish Wives of Friedrich Engels: Recovering the Narratives of Mary and Lizzie Burns. Socialist History , No. 60 (Autumn 2021)

The Problem of Capitalism in Irish Catholic Social Thought, 1922-1950. Études Irlandaises, Vol. 46, No.2 (2021)

Counter-Revolutionary Masculinities: Gender, Social Control and Revising the Chronologies of Irish Nationalist Politics. Irish Studies Review, Vol. 29, No. 2 (May, 2021)

Marx and Engels, Ireland, and the Racial History of Capitalism. Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4 (December, 2019)

Where Does the State End and the Church Begin? The Strange Career of Richard S. Devane. Studi Irlandesi: A Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 9 (2019)

The Gaelic League and the Spatial Logics of Irish Nationalism. Irish Historical Studies, Vol. 43, No.1 (May, 2019)

Zionism and Irish Nationalism: Ideology and Identity on the Borders of Europe. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Vol.45, No.2 (2017) 315-338

Jews and the Irish Nationalist Imagination: Between Philo-Semitism and Anti-Semitism. Journal of Jewish Studies, Vol. 68, No. 1 (2017) 116-136

“Belfast is Not Here”: The Israeli Press and the Good Friday Agreement.
Israel Studies, Vol. 22, No.2 (Summer, 2017) 78-95

Masculinity and Nationhood in the East Clare By-Election, 1917. Éire-Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies, Vol.51, Nos. 3&4, (Fall/Winter, 2016) 141-164

An Irish Revolution Without a Revolution. Journal of World-Systems Research, Vol. 22, No.1 (2016) 54-76

Irish Modernity and the Politics of Contraception, 1979-1993. New Hibernia Review, Vol. 17, No.3 (Autumn, 2013) 100-118

Edited Volumes

Irish and World Histories. Special issue of Radical History Review, Vol. 143 (2022) [co-edited with Peter Hession and Van Gosse]

Ireland in the World-System, Special issue of Journal of World-Systems Research, Vol. 22, No.1 (2016) [co-edited with Dr. Sharae Deckard and Dr. Maurice Coakley]

Book Chapters

Royalism in Republicanism: The Political Vocabulary of Irish Sovereignty, 1912-1924. Mariana Bonnouvrier and Carolina Armenteros, eds. Monarchy and European Republicanism: From the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries (Forthcoming)

The Emergence of Irish Masculinity Studies. Jyoti Atwal, Ciara Breathnach, & Sarah-Anne Buckley, eds. Gender and History: Ireland, 1852–1922 (London: Routledge, 2022)

Free State Freaks: The Politics of Masculinity in 1922. Darragh Gannon and Fearghal McGarry, eds. Ireland 1922: Independence, Partition, Civil War (Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2022)

The Economic War and the Pamphlet War. Douglas Kanter and Patrick Walsh, eds. Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662-2016 (London: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2019)

Fianna Fáil, Masculinity, and the Irish Agrarian Man. Sean Brady, Jane McGaughey, Rebecca Barr, eds. Ireland and Masculinities in History (London: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2019)

Review Essays

Review of Kenneth Shonk. “Ireland’s New Traditionalists: Fianna Fáil, Republicanism and Gender”. Irish Historical Studies, Vol. 46, No. 170 (November, 2022)

Review of Katell Berthelot. “Jews and their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome’s Challenge to Israel”. H-Empire (December, 2022)

Review of Conor Morrissey. “Protestant Nationalists in Ireland, 1900–1923”. American Historical Review, Vol. 126, No.1 (March, 2021)

Review of Martin Walsh. Richard Devane SJ. Social Commentator and Advocate, 1876–1951 (Dublin: Irish Messenger Publications, 2019) in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 109, No. 435 (Autumn, 2020)

Review of Paul A. Hanebrink. A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2018) in H-Judaic (February, 2020)

Review of Conor McNamara. Liam Mellows, Soldier of the Irish Republic: Selected Writings, 1914-1922 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2019) in H- Socialisms (December, 2019)

Review of Patrick Doyle. Civilising Rural Ireland: The Co-Operative Movement, Development and the Nation-State (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019) in H-Socialisms (August, 2019).

Review of Caoimhín de Barra. The Coming of the Celts, AD 1860: Celtic Nationalism in Ireland and Wales (South Bend IN: Notre Dame University Press, 2018) in Journal of British Studies, Vol. 58, No.3 (2019).

Review of Lindsey Earner-Byrne. Letters of the Catholic Poor: Poverty in Independent Ireland, 1920-1940 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017) in H-Socialisms (March, 2019)

Review of Giulia Bruna. J.M. Synge and the Travel Writing of the Irish Revival (Syracuse NY: Syracuse University Press, 2017) in Irish Studies Review, Vol. 27, No.1 (2019).

Review of Jack Jacobs, ed. Jews and Leftist Politics: Judaism, Israel, Antisemitism and Gender (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017) in H-Socialisms (November, 2018)

Review of Peter O’Neill. Famine Irish and the American Racial State (New York: Routledge, 2017) in Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies (September, 2018)

Review of Breandan Mac Suibhne. The End of Outrage: Post-Famine Adjustment in Rural Ireland (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017) in H-Empire (June, 2018)

Review of Kennetta Hammond Perry. London is the Place for Me: Black Britons, Citizenship and the Politics of Race (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015) in Itinerario: International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction, Vol. 41, No. 1 (2017) 195-197

Review of Alain Brossat & Sylvia Klingberg. Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism (London: Verso, 2016) in H-Judaic (February, 2017)

Review of Daniel I. O’Neill. Edmund Burke and the Conservative Logic of Empire (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2016) in Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies (January, 2017)

Review of Brenda Murphy. Brewing Identities: Globalisation, Guinness and the Production of Irishness (New York: Peter Lang, 2015) in New Hibernia Review, Vol. 20, No. 4 (Winter, 2016)

Review of Kevin McCarthy. Robert Briscoe: Sinn Féin Revolutionary, Fianna Fáil Nationalist, Revisionist Zionist (Bern: Peter Lang, 2016) in Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Vol.39, No. 2 (2016)

Review of Abby Bender. Israelites in Erin: Exodus, Revolution and the Irish Revival (Syracuse NY: Syracuse University Press, 2015) in Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Vol.39, No. 2 (2016)

Review of Robert Savage. The BBC’s “Irish Troubles”: Television, Conflict and Northern Ireland (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015) in New Hibernia Review, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Autumn, 2016)

Review of Fearghal McGarry. The Rising: Ireland, Easter 1916 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016) 2nd Edition in H-Empire (October, 2016)

Review of Angela McCarthy, ed. Ireland in the World: Comparative, Transnational, and Personal Perspectives (New York: Routledge, 2015) in World History Connected, Vol. 13, No.2 (June, 2016)

Review of Saree Makdisi. Making England Western: Occidentalism, Race, and Imperial Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014) in Itinerario: International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction, Vol. 40, No. 1 (2016) 163-165

Review of Marie McAndrew. Fragile Majorities and Education: Belgium, Catalonia, Northern Ireland, and Quebec (Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013) in H-Nationalism (September, 2013)

Non-Academic Writing

Why the Middle Classes are Afraid of Sinn Féin in Irish Times (February 2023)

Can We Look Forward to Living in Space in RTÉ Brainstorm (May 2022)

Why Do We Still Fetishise Homeownership? in Novara Media (May 2022)

For Elon Musk, Space May Be The Final Frontier of Private Property in Washington Post/Made By History (April 2022)

Countess Markievicz Defends Female Citizenship in RTÉ/Century Ireland (March 2022)

Review of Shaul Magid. Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021) in JewThink (December 2021)

Review of Renée Fox, Mike Cronin, Brian Ó Conchubhair, eds. Routledge International Handbook of Irish Studies (New York Routledge, 2020) in Galway Review (September 2021)

Review of Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna, ed. Recovering an Irish Voice from the American Frontier: The Prose Writings of Eoin Ua Cathail (Denton TX: University of North Texas Press, 2021) in The Irish Story (July 2021)

Review of Talia Lavin. Culture Warlords My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy (New York Hatchette Books, 2020) in Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture, Vol. 20, No.1 (2021)

Review of Timothy Brennan. Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said (New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2021) in JewThink (April 2021)

Sexual Fantasy and Antisemitism. JewThink (March 2021)

Review of Helena Sheehan. Navigating the Zeitgeist: A Story of the Cold War, The New Left, Irish Republicanism and International Communism (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2019) in Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture, Vol. 19, No.2 (2020)

Review of Daniel Finn. One Man’s Terrorist: A Political History of the IRA (New York: Verso, 2019) in Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture, Vol. 19, No.1 (2020)

Shutting Down and Switching Off Silicon Valley: Interview with Wendy Liu.
Scottish Left Review, No. 117 (May/June, 2020)

Racing Against the Race for Profit: Interview with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. Scottish Left Review, No. 114 (November/December, 2019)

Review of Asad Haider. Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump (London: Verso, 2018) in Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture, Vol. 17, No. 2 (2018)

Review of Alexander Gallas. The Thatcherite Offensive: A Neo-Poulantzasian Analysis (Chicago: Haymarket Press, 2016) in Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture, Vol. 17, No. 1 (2018)

Social Revolutions Beyond the Volga: Ireland and Egypt. Age of Revolutions Blog, February 2018

Language Politics: Comparing Irish Nationalism and Zionism. History Ireland, Vol. 26, No.1 (Jan-Feb, 2018)

Intersectionality and the History of Knowledge. History of Knowledge Blog, German Historical Institute, August 2017

Review of Stuart Jeffries. Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School (London: Verso: 2016) in Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture, Vol. 16, Nos. 1-2 (2017)

A Nation of Eunuchs or Athletic Youths? Irish Nationalism’s Masculine Anxieties. Irish Times, August 2016

Zionists Looked to Irish History. Irish Echo, July 2016

Review of Benedict Anderson. A Life Beyond Boundaries (London: Verso: 2016) in Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture, Vol. 15, Nos. 2-3 (2016)

Nationalists as Real Men. The Village, April 2016

Review of Donald Akenson. Discovering the End of Time: Irish Evangelicals in the Age of Daniel O’Connell (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2016) in Montreal Review of Books, April 2016

Review of Kieran Allen. 1916: Ireland’s Revolutionary Tradition (London: Pluto, 2016) in The Irish Story, December 2015

Frederick Engels and Ireland. The Irish Story, August 2015

From Gay Power to Gay Rights. Jacobin, May 2015

Review of Colin Barr; Michele Finelli; Anne O’Connor, eds. Nation/Nazione: Irish Nationalism and the Italian Risorgimento (Dublin: UCD Press, 2014) in The Irish Story, September 2014

Body and Soul of the Nation: Early Twentieth Century Irish Nationalism and Zionism. The Irish Story, February 2013

A Long and Intertwined History: Irish Nationalism and Zionism. The Irish Story, January 2013

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