My work focuses on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and themes of migration, political violence, nationalism and radicalism, mainly relating to Ireland and the Irish diapsora. I completed my doctorate at the European University Institute, Florence. Before coming to Strathclyde, I worked at Bielefeld University, Germany, NUI Glaway and the University of Edinburgh.

My new book is called Changing Land: Diaspora Activism and the Irish Land War and will appear in 2021 with NYU Press, in the Gluckman Irish Diaspora Series. It is based on research supported by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Intra-European Fellowship and examines radical networks in Ireland and Irish migrant communities in Scotland, England, the United States and Argentina. My first book is The Dynamiters: Irish nationalism and political violence in the wider world, 1867-1900, which appeared with Cambridge University Press in 2012.

My next project is a book length study of John O'Dwyer Creaghe, an Irish emigrant who became a leading figure in the large anarchist movement in Argentina at the turn of the twentieth century.

I teach the history of modern Ireland at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and I also run a year-long undergraduate module on the global history of terrorism.

Along with teaching and research, I’m interested in the interpretation of history through music and film. I am presently working on a collaborative project with musicians on primary historical sources and music. I have organised the mini-film series Screening Irish History which has run at the Glasgow Film Theatre, the CCA Glasgow and Edinburgh’s Filmhouse.

At Strathclyde I am the History rep for the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities, and I am the Erasmus and International Exchange co-ordinator for History.

Links:  

http://strathclyde.academia.edu/NiallWhelehan

https://twitter.com/Niallnineteen/

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

I welcome applications from potential PhD students who wish to work on areas of:

• modern Ireland and the Irish diaspora
• migration
• terrorism and political violence
• Cinema and Irish history