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Research

• Ireland’s regional population trends and religious demography, 1600-1900
• Early census taking in Ireland
• Seasonality of the Irish labour market in eighteenth century
• The development of the Irish parliament, 1560-1800
• Statistical inquiry before the Famine

Publications

Select publications include:

• Three eighteenth-century surveys of County Wicklow. In Analecta Hibernica, xxxix (2006), pp 79-138.
• A social history of the Wicklow Uplands. Dublin, 2006.
• No country for young men. In Ríocht na Midhe, xvii (2006), pp 173-202.
• An examination of the 1749 census of the diocese of Elphin. In Legg, Marie Louis (ed.). The census of Elphin, 1749, Dublin, 2004, pp xxv-xxxvii.
• The hearth money roll for Dublin city. In Analecta Hibernica, xxxviii (2004), pp 49-133.
• Navan, County Meath, in 1766. In Ríocht na Midhe, xv (2004), pp 83-100.
• The union of Navan in 1766. In Ríocht na Midhe, xiv (2003), pp 144-69.
• Pre-census sources for Irish demography. Dublin, 2002.
• A century of struggle in Delgany and Kilcoole. Dublin, 2002.