Please find links to my academic research and publications below.
The EU, Irish Defence Forces and Contemporary Security
The EU, Irish Defence Forces and Contemporary Security, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Jonathan Carroll, Matthew G. O’Neill, and Mark Williams (Editors)
Jonathan Carroll, Matthew G. O’Neill, and Mark Williams are co-editors of this edited volume on the Irish Defence Forces, entitled The EU, Irish Defence Forces and Contemporary Security. It was published by Palgrave Macmillan in January 2023.
Jonathan Carroll is a PhD candidate in Military History at Texas A&M University. Matthew G. O’Neill and Mark Williams are postgraduate researchers with the Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Cybersecurity and Society (LINCS) at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen’s University Belfast.
I am very pleased to have contributed a chapter in which I explore Irish civil-military industrial relations and wider European Union military trade unionism.
Available from the publisher: The EU, Irish Defence Forces and Contemporary Security (Palgrave Macmillan).
Defence Forces Review 2022:
DF Review 2022:
Change or continuity? Ireland’s Defence Forces in an era of unprecedented conflict and challenge.
Paper Title:
From aspiration to action.
Exploring new horizons for the Defence Forces Senior Enlisted Leaders.
A download link will be available here upon publication in December 2022.
Defence Forces Review 2021:
Defence Forces Review 2021:
Making Ireland a Better Place to Live: Defence Forces Contribution to National Resilience.
Paper Title:
Ireland, the sea and its people: Building coastal resilience.
University College Cork, Master of Commerce in Government and Public Policy, Research Thesis, 2019.
Thesis Title:
Citizens in uniform: an examination of Irish military representation in comparison with European military trade unionism, and the ideals of the European social charter.
