Blogs

Louis Cullen MRIA, historian

Professor Cullen has, over the course of his illustrious career, found himself engaged in topics as diverse as the pre-Revolutionary French brandy trade, the treatment…

Samson Shatashvili MRIA, theoretical and mathematical physicist

Professor Shatashvili’s research has recently established the deep connection between two major aspects of mathematics and theoretical physics: supersymmetric quantum field theories and quantum integrable…

Dermot Moran MRIA, philosopher

Professor Moran approaches his research interests in Early Medieval philosophy and twentieth-century European philosophy, especially phenomenology, largely from a historical perspective, exploring how ideas arise…

Cormac Ó Gráda MRIA, economic historian

Professor Ó Gráda’s solo and collaborative research over a long, and much-enjoyed, career as an economic historian has seen him engage with topics ranging from…

Fergus Shanahan MRIA, clinician–scientist

Research resulting from Professor Shanahan’s longstanding curiosity with the traditional lives of Irish Travellers has revealed that their microbiome challenges restrictive definitions of a healthy…

David Livingstone MRIA, geographer and historian

Professor Livingstone is interested in researching the connections between the history of ideas and geographical thought; how history can be radically different from what people…

Mary E. Daly MRIA, historian

Professor Daly’s research focus on social and economic history in Ireland since the famine seeks to determine what features of Ireland’s history are exceptional, but…

John Dillon MRIA, philosopher

Professor Dillon, although by training a Classical scholar rather than a philosopher, focuses his research interests on the philosophy of Plato and the development of…