I graduated with a BA in History and Modern Irish from University College Cork (UCC) in 2011. Soon after this I began my doctoral studies at UCC and was awarded a PhD in History in 2016. From 2017-18, I held a research fellowship from the Society for Renaissnace Studies and from 2018-20 I held a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Reseach Fellowship at the University of Glasgow. I taught at Trinity College Dublin from 2020 to 2022 and joined the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at QUB in 2023. 

My research focuses on the history and culture of later medieval Ireland, c.1100-c.1600. I am particularly interested in exploring:

• Gaelic and Gaelicized lordship
• the evolving relationship between Ireland and Scotland during the period
• how events in this wider Gaelic world shaped the politics of the wider archipelago
• Ireland's place within the wider North Atlantic world, embracing the Iberian Peninsula and Scandinavia

I currently teach/co-teach the following modules:

• HIS1003: Exploring History
• HIS2047 The Expansion of Europe
• HIS3143 War, Politics, and Identity in Late Medieval Ireland, c.1166-c.1521
• IRS7012 Kingship and Colonisation in Medieval Ireland: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
• MHY7011 Individually Negotiated Topic
• MHY7092 Approaches to History