Research & Publications

It is hard to believe now, but when I started my academic career, you only needed an up to date publications list if you were applying for a new job. Now, not only is is vital for regular quality reviews but it even effects the departmental budget on a year to year basis. When I started updating mine, I thought I would also create an online archive of my publications, only to find that some are buried on old floppy disks somewhere in that shoebox of 200 disks over there. However, I do have pdf files of the more interesting recent ones, which are linked form here, and I’ll add the others over time as I find them.

Phd Thesis : Comparative and Operational Aspects of Peacekeeping in Intra-State Conflicts with particularreference to Irish participation in ONUC 1960-64

Articles & Chapters

Boots on the Ground: Defence Forces Review, 2008 (Dublin, PR Section, COS Branch, 2008) pp 65-70 ISSN 1649-7066

Military History in Killarney 250: A History (Cork, Collins Press, 2005)

‘Battles and Dates’ Defence Forces Review, 2004 (Dublin, PR Section, COS Branch, 2004) pp 55-60

History at the Flick of a Switch’ Times Higher Education Supplement, Sept. 13th 1996

The Paperless Exam” conference paper at CATH’94 (Computers and Teaching in the Humanities). Published in Popham L., and Hughes L (eds.) Computers and Teaching in the Humanities: Selected Papers from the CATH’94 Conference, CTI Centre for Textual Studies, Occasional Series, No. 2. Oxford, 1996

Command At Sea & Shipbase III’ Paper Wars Dec. 1995

Past Lives on Floppy Disk’ Times Higher Education Supplement Jan 13th 1995

“Crisis in the Kremlin”, History Microcomputer Review, Spring 1993

Conference Papers

I have two items from my Paper at ISSOTL09 in October 2009 – a video (28mb) and a pdf of the slides (6mb). The slides are not visible on the video because of the camera angle. The ‘camera’ was, as usual, my current mobile phone, a Sony Ericsson K770i which provides adequate recording of lectures. There a slide on the end that I did not get to since I was running over time.

Coming soon – presentation from the April 2009 HCA conference on Games in History Teaching

STRAW – STRUCTURED READING, ANALYSIS AND WRITING IN HUMANITIES DISCIPLINES Proceedings of INTED2009 Conference. 9-11 March 2009, Valencia, Spain.

NVIDIA, MATROX, PAPER? – UNDERGRADUATE GAME DESIGN TOOLS IN THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Proceedings of INTED2009 Conference. 9-11 March 2009, Valencia, Spain

Wargames Unplugged AISHE-C 2008, Maynooth, August 2008

We don’t shoot horses, do we? Informal transmission of cultural norms through peacekeeping’ British International Studies Association Conference, UCC, Dec 2006

Structures of Narrative in History: Mind Mapping, and Outlining, Edtech 2006, Irish Learning Technology Association Conference, May 2006 (7.5mb)

Taxonomies, Outcomes and Disciplinary Understanding in History (Poster) Implementing Learning Outcomes Implications for re-defining Teaching & Learning, UCC, February 2006

Federation and Empire? Home Rule and Imperial Federation 1885-1914 at The Matter of Britain, Academic Track, WorldCon 2005, Glasgow, August 2005

Awareness of the Bologna Process in Irish Universities, NUI Convocation conference on the Bologna Process, November 2003

Teaching using the 1901 Census of Population, Clio-HNet Symposium, Bologna, June 2003

Teaching using the 1901 Census of Population, History & Computing Conference, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, 2002

Conference paper on use and teaching of military history to Irish History Students’ Association Conference, 1983 (only undergraduate paper from UCC in 1983)