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'Ah, Ireland, the caring nation': foreign aid and Irish state identity in the long 1970s
(Cambridge University Press, 2013-05)On a plane leaving Baidoa refugee camp in Somalia in late 1992, an Arab doctor offered John O'Shea, head of the relief agency Goal, a glimpse of how the Irish were viewed in that civil war-ravaged state. ‘Ah, Ireland’, he ... -
Between internationalism and empire: Ireland, the 'Like-Minded' group, and the search for a new international order, 1974-82
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2015-07-31)This article examines the response of a group of small and medium-sized states to the Global South's demands for a new international economic order in the 1970s and early 1980s. Reading that experience through the eyes of ... -
Biafra's legacy: NGO humanitarianism and the Nigerian civil war
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A border baron and the Tudor state: the rise and fall of Lord Dacre of the North
(1992)Crown policy towards the nobles and the rule of the provinces under the early Tudors reflected the values and social structures of 'civil society' in lowland England. Using as a case-study the Dacres, a ... -
Catholic missionaries in a territory of Reunion: The French Crown and the Congregation of the Mission in Sedan, 1642-57
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A Catholic model of martyrdom in the Post-Reformation era: the Bishop in Seventeenth-Century France
(Taylor & Francis, 2005)By the seventeenth century, episcopal martyrdom was an established reality and ideal throughout the Catholic church. Bishops could pay homage to the celebrated prelates of the early church who had gone bravely to their ... -
The Catholic reformation in seventeenth-century Ireland: Vincent de Paul's Missionaries in Munster
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The collapse of the Gaelic world, 1450-1650.
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England in the Tudor state
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The English Pale: 'a failed entity'?
(Wordwell Ltd., 2011-03)It is hardly surprising that Irish historians have been reluctant to engage with negative later medieval English perceptions of Ireland (see sidebar below), other than to impugn their veracity. In regard to the English ... -
"Fascinating scalpel-wielders and fair dissectors": women's experience of Irish medical education, c. 1880s-1920s.
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'Fathers, Leaders, Kings': episcopacy and episcopal reform in the seventeenth-century French School
(Taylor & Francis, 2002)In their drive to ‘sanctify’ the clergy, seventeenth-century French clerical reformers developed highly sophisticated and influential theologies of both priesthood and episcopacy. This article traces the development of the ... -
A "global nervous system": The rise and rise of European humanitarian NGOs
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)Going a step beyond the guiding principle of Amnesty International and the human rights movement that individuals could change the policies of foreign governments humanitarian NGOs emphasised the power of ... -
Humanitarian encounters: Biafra, NGOs and imaginings of the Third World in Britain and Ireland, 1967-70
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-08-21)This article examines the influence of the Biafran humanitarian crisis on British and Irish conceptions of the Third World. Drawing on evidence from NGOs in both countries, it argues that the explosion of non-governmental ... -
Humanitarianisms in context
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2016-03-16)This introduction describes the rapidly expanding history of non-state humanitarianism in terms of three themes. First, it argues that we should think about humanitarianism less in terms of ruptures or breaks, and focus ... -
Introduction to 'Politics and Religion in Early Bourbon France'
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)[No abstract available]