Selected Articles

• Book Review, "Lady Gregory's Early Irish Writings 1883-1893," ed. James Pethica (Gerrards Cross, UK: Colin Smyth, 2018), Irish Literary Supplement, Vol. 39. No. 1, 2019, pp. 2-3.
• “William Randolph Hearst & The Eyrecourt Staircase,” Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society [hereafter JGAHS], Vol. 69, 2017, pp. 161-190. [Due to editorial and financial constraints, this article was cut by one-third, and most of the references and notes drastically shortened. Read full article here.]
• “‘Fashionable Intelligence’ – Four Irish Miniatures of the Persse Family, Moyode Castle, County Galway,” JGAHS, Vols. 61, 62, 2009-10.
• Book Review, “The Prendergast Letters: Correspondence from the Famine-Era Ireland, 1840-1850,” ed. Shelley Barber (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006), Irish Literary Supplement, Vol. 26, No. 2, Fall 2007.
• “‘I Prefer a Free Country’ – Letters to and from County Galway Emigrants, 1843-1856,” JGAHS, Vol. 56, 2004, pp. 85-153.
• Book Review, “A Viceroy’s Vindication? Sir Henry Sidney’s Memoir of Service in Ireland, 1556-78,” ed. Ciaran Brady, JGAHS, Vol. 55, 2003, pp. 167-169.
• “Caher Na Earle, The Earl’s Chair,” JGAHS, Vol. 52, 2000, pp. 144-154.
• “Landscape and the Celtic Soul,” Eire-Ireland, Vol. XXXI, Numbers 3 & 4, 1997, pp. 228-254.
• “Triumphalism and County Galway Landlords,” JGAHS, Vol. 49, 1997, pp. 194-201. Reprinted in Castles & Demesnes: Gleanings from Kilconieran and Clostoken, ed. Cathal Stanley (Loughrea: Carrabane Parish Histories, 2000).
• Book Review, “An Innocent in Ireland: Curious Rambles and Singular Encounters,” by David McFadden, Irish Literary Supplement, Vol. 15, No. 2, Fall 1996, p. 30.
• “Celtic Soul: Some People Have It,” Irish Literary Supplement, Vol. 15, No. 1, Spring 1996, pp. 27-28.
• “‘Nothing But Misery All Round Me’: Henry Stratford Persse and the Galway Famine of 1822,” with Dr. James L. Pethica, JGAHS, Vol. 47, 1995, pp. 1-36.
• Book Review, “Pilgrimage in Ireland: The Monuments and the People,” by Peter Harbison, Eire-Ireland, Volume XXVII, Number 4, 1992, pp. 139-142.
• “St. Patrick's Purgatory,” The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Volume X, Number 1, June 1984, pp. 7-40.
• “Irish Easters, 1916 - 1975,” The Boston Observer, Volume 2, Number 2, April 1983, pp. 15–22.