Papers by Eamonn McNamara
I would first like to thank Professor Nicholas Brown who agreed to supervise me back in October 2... more I would first like to thank Professor Nicholas Brown who agreed to supervise me back in October 2014. Your generosity, insight, patience and hard work have made this thesis what it is. I would also like to thank Dr Ben Mercer, your helpful and perceptive insights not only contributed enormously to my thesis, but helped fund my research by hiring and mentoring me as a tutor. Thank you to Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Malcolm whose knowledge and experience thoroughly enhanced this thesis. I could not have asked for a better panel. I would also like to thank the academic and administrative staff of the ANU's School of History for their encouragement and support, in Monday afternoon tea, seminars throughout my candidature and especially useful feedback during my Thesis Proposal and Pre-Submission Presentations. I would like to thank the McClay Library at Queen's University Belfast for allowing me access to their collections and the generous staff of the Linen Hall Library, Belfast City Library and Belfast's Newspaper Library for all their help. Also thanks to my local libraries, the NLA and the ANU's Chifley and Menzies libraries. A big thank you to Niamh Baker of the BBC Archives in Belfast for allowing me access to the collection. I would also like to acknowledge Bertie Ahern, Seán Neeson and John Lindsay for their insightful interviews and conversations that added a personal dimension to this thesis. Thanks also to the Irish History Students' Association (IHSA) and the Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand (ISAANZ) for useful feedback at conferences in Galway and Adelaide. Finally, I would like to thank, friends and fellow research students who have lived with my Northern Ireland obsession. To my parents (and honorary editors) Peter and Jacinta, grandparents Peter and Eileen, siblings Clare and Dan and my beautiful Georgia, thank you all. Unending gratitude to my 3109 Coombs-room-buddies Daniel May, Nick Hoare, Rory McLeod and Wilbert Wong for putting up with the messiest desk in recorded Coombs history. To my fellow research students
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Papers by Eamonn McNamara