I am from Manchester in the United Kingdom and completed my undergraduate degree in History at The University of Cambridge. After several years working in a variety of public sector research and communication jobs in the UK, I completed the Global History MA in Berlin between the FU and HU. The title of my MA Thesis was ‘How an imagined Irish past lead to an engagement with the world: the global significance of nationalist labour leaders during Ireland’s Revolutionary Period. 1900-1924.’

My thesis explores the internationalism of the Irish labour movement in the years preceding Ireland’s partial independence and partition in 1922-23. This PhD examines the intersection of nationalism, internationalism, and anti-imperialism within the Irish labour movement during the island’s revolutionary period. This contributes to a larger, global story of how various forms of nationalism and internationalism can manifest within the specific demand and realisation of a nation-state. This case study of Irish labour facilitates a re-examination of self-determination from the perspective of working-class institutions by considering the role of labour within the rise of nationalist and anti-imperial movements during the contested ‘Wilsonian moment’ following WWI.

Exile, Dual Belongings, and Long-Distance Nationalism: The Role of the Irish Diaspora within the Irish Independence Movement, 1919-1921; in Global Histories - a student journal, Vol. 7 No. 2 (2021): Global histories 7 (2). DOI: https://doi.org/10.17169/GHSJ.2021.466