My work focuses mainly on modern Irish history in transnational and comparative contexts, and the fields of political violence, diaspora, nationalism and social movements. My first book is The Dynamiters: Irish nationalism and political violence in the wider world, 1867-1900 (Cambridge UP, 2012, paperback 2015). Based on my PhD thesis from the European University Institute, Florence, the book offers a transnational history of Irish nationalist violence in the nineteenth century. 

My present project, entitled The Irish Land League and Diaspora Activism, is based on research supported by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Intra-European Fellowship, and explores radical networks in Ireland and the Irish diaspora in Britain, the United States and Argentina in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I have also written on the comparative history of Italy and Ireland, and I am a founding member of the research network Transnational Ireland.

Along with teaching and research, I’m interested in history and film and I have organised the film series Screening Irish History at the Glasgow Film Theatre, the CCA Glasgow and Edinburgh’s Filmhouse.

I am the Erasmus and International Exchange co-ordinator for History.

Links:  

http://strathclyde.academia.edu/NiallWhelehan

https://twitter.com/Niall_Whelehan

I teach undergraduate and postgraduate modules on Irish history and the history of political violence and terrorism.