History of Early Modern Ireland & England, particularly the Restoration
History of Law
History of Crime & Punishment
History of Parliament & Representation
History of Administration
Books
Earl of Cork & Burlington Diaries, 1650-73, with P. Little (Irish Manuscripts Commission, forthcoming 2024)
Crime and punishment in early modern Ireland: developing a colonial institution (Bloomsbury Press, forthcoming 2024)
History Matters – Published papers from the UCD Combined Departments of History Postgraduate Conference – 2001-3 (Dublin, 2004) – with M.S. O’Neill & C. Cullen
Refereed publications
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‘Richard, 6th earl of Anglesey’, History of Parliament, 1715-90 (Cambridge, forthcoming 2025)
‘"The Tower of Babell must be an example unto all assemblye"s: Parliamentary speakers and their speeches in seventeenth-century Ireland’, in Marie Betlem Castella Pujuols, Martí Grau Segú, Mikel Urquijo (eds), Presidencies of Parliamentary and Representative Institutions (Madrid, forthcoming, 2024)
‘Nisi per legale judicium parium suorum: Parliament and the right to trial by peer in early modern Ireland’, P. Crooks & T. Mohr (eds),
Magna Carta and the idea of liberty (Dublin, 2023)
‘Privilege, organisation and aristocratic identity in the seventeenth-century Irish house of lords’ in Francesco Soddu & Annamari Nieddu (eds), Assemblee rappresentative, autonomie territoriali, culture politiche (Sassari, 2011)
‘Dependency and subservience: The Irish parliament as a “small-state parliament”’ – Czasopismo Prawno-Historyczne, 61 / 2 (2009)
‘Petitioning in the Irish parliament: The evidence from 1661-6’ in M.S. O’Neill, C. Cullen, & C.A. Dennehy, History matters – Published papers from the UCD Combined Departments of History Postgraduate Conference –2001-3 (Dublin, 2004)
Reviews
Various reviews have appeared in The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice; Parliamentary History; Parliaments, Estates & Representation; The Seventeenth Century; Saothar: Journal of the Irish Labour History Society; Irish Historical Studies; Scottish Historical Review; The History Review.
Blogs & Magazines
The History of Parliament Trust
University College London
Parliamentary Archives
History Hub
l'Association Internationale de Droit Constitutionnel
Irish Criminology Research Network
Legal History Miscellany
RTÉ Brainstorm
Conference Organisation
Co-convenor - Treason in Ireland
Committee member – (Un)fit to rule: body, mind, gender and spirit on the throne, Belgrade
Committee member – British Legal History Conference, Belfast
Co-convenor – Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, and his World, London
Convenor - Law and revolution: Law & Lawyers before, during, and after the Cromwellian Interregnum, Dublin
Convenor – International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions (ICHRPI) conference, Dublin & Belfast
Co-convenor – Restoration Ireland, c.1660-85, Dublin