Niamh Gallagher
University Associate Professor of Modern British and Irish History · School of Humanities and Social Sciences · University of Cambridge
Quick answer: Niamh Gallagher is University Associate Professor of Modern British and Irish History at University of Cambridge. Niamh Gallagher shows an active PhD hiring signal as of 2026-09-11.
⭐ I am currently on leave as the recipient of a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship working on a new project called Ireland and the 'ends' of the British Empire, 1886 to the present. I will be taking on a small number of new MPhil and PhD students while on leave, but I will not be taking any more MPhil students for the academic year 2025-26.
Research interests
Late nineteenth and twentieth century political, social and cultural history; empires and anticolonialism; nations and nationalism; the impact of war on society; the Irish in the British World; transnational, imperial and comparative histories; the history of immigrants and minorities; emigration and settlement; political thought; gender and class; memory and myth-making; commemoration; anti-state politics
Selected publications (since 2023)
Gallagher, N., 'Ireland and the First World War: Myth, Memory and History', British Journal of Military History, 9, 2 (2023), pp. 125-42).
Gallagher, N., 'That Awkward Region: Writing and Advising on the History of Northern Ireland', Political Quarterly, vol. 94, no. 2., (2023), 237-243.
Gallagher, N. ‘Churchill, the ‘Irish Question’ and the Irish’ in Allen Packwood (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Winston Churchill, Cambridge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. 112-136.
'How to Plan an Insurrection', review of Liam McNulty's 'James Connolly: Socialist, Nationalist and Internationalist', London Review of Books, November 2023.
Frequently asked questions
Is Niamh Gallagher hiring PhD students at University of Cambridge?
Yes. As of 2026-09-11, Niamh Gallagher's faculty page shows a PhD hiring signal: I am currently on leave as the recipient of a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship working on a new project called Ireland and the 'ends' of the British Empire, 1886 to the present. I will be taking on a sm.
What does Niamh Gallagher research?
Late nineteenth and twentieth century political, social and cultural history; empires and anticolonialism; nations and nationalism; the impact of war on society; the Irish in the British World; transnational, imperial and comparative histories; the history of immigrants and minorities; emigration an
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