Historian with Antarctic expedition team
Aboard Norwegian Cruise Line's Norwegian Star 12 February-12 March, 2023, I gave public talks about Antarctic exploration and history and engaged with our team's education & outreach goals to enhance the experience of guests. (Expedition team leader: Dr Torre Stockard)
Titles of talks preapred
Scott & Amundsen in Antarctica: Fram & Terra Nova expeditions both in pursuit of the same, great goal
Shackleton’s Endurance epic: Life in the Weddell Sea ice with hoosh, a banjo & the Boss in charge
Significant Antarctic firsts: sightings, landings, the South Pole and record-making in Antarctica
Finding Terra Australis Incognita: a brief history of humans & Antarctica: theorising, sailing & discovering
Names honoured in Antarctica: stories about features named after explorers, patrons and sweethearts
Historic Antarctic lifesavers: selfless actions of Heroic Age explorers to save their mates on the ice
Suggested readings and source lists provided for guests:
https://liam-maloney-antarctica.blogspot.com
Tutoring with School of
History, University College, Dublin
Living, Loving, and Dying in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Module Coordinator: Professor Catherine Cox)
Interpreting Evidence (Module Coordinator: Dr Edward Coleman)
Modern Ireland: From the Irish Revolution to Brexit 1912-2022 (Module Co-ordinator: Dr Fionnuala Walsh)
European Statecraft, Strategy & Culture, c. 1470-c.1770: Personalities & Power (Module Coordinator: Dr Declan M. Downey)
Modern German History: The Third Reich 1933-1945 (Module Coordinator: Dr Mark Jones)
Modern China since 1600 (Module Coordinator: Dr Jennifer Bond)
Early Modern Europe, 1450–1800:
The Rise of the Maritime Powers, Portugal, Spain, The Dutch Republic & The
Sovereign Order of St. John (Module Coordinators: Dr Declan M. Downey & Dr
Edward Collins)
Australian History and
its Afterlives (Module Coordinator: Professor Amanda Nettelbeck)
Ireland’s English
centuries: 1460-1800 (Module Coordinator: Associate Professor Dr Ivar McGrath)
Shackleton Endurance
Exhibition work
Research pieces
concerning polar exploration:
https://shackletonexhibition.com/blog/
Posts
concerning polar exploration and news items:
https://www.facebook.com/Shackletonexhibition
Booklet researched and
written about Perce Blackborow, member of Shackleton’s ‘Endurance’ crew, now
shared via a blog—‘Our Young Stowaway: Perce Blackborow and Life on
Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914-1916’:
Selection of talks presented
25 January, 2024
Finding Terra Australis Incognita: Antarctic theorising, sailing & discovering
Gilbert White’s House, Selborne, Hampshire
22 November, 2023
Shackleton's Endurance Epic
Swords Men's Shed, Swords, Co. Dublin
5 December, 2021
13 December, 2022
Shackleton and Antarctica Q&A
Maltby Lilly Hall Academy Primary School, Maltby, Rotherham
14 June, 2021
Shackleton's Endurance
Norris Middle School, Norris, Tennessee & Lake City Middle School, Lake City, Tennessee
21 November, 2015
The Sinking of Endurance
Royal St. George Yacht Club, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
Written projects
‘‘To Benefit the Citizens
of Dublin’: The Dublin Corporation Markets of St. Michan’s Street’. (August,
2018.)
‘Strong Hearts Stir BCSJ:
Twenty-six lives linking Belvedere College SJ and the Easter rising of 1916’.
(April, 2016)
Available at: https://shs-bcsj.blogspot.com/
Published papers
Liam Maloney, ‘Sir Ernest
in Dublin: the celebrity of Shackleton, Dublin society and the Lady Dudley
scheme’, The James Caird Society Journal, No. 10 (2019), pp. 63-69.
Liam Maloney, ‘The Lord
and all his wonders in the deep: Sir Ernest Shackleton and the ‘Power that
informs the whole living world’, The James Caird Society Journal, No. 9
(2018), pp. 26-32.
Presentation papers
‘City Engineer Neville’s
realised & unrealised market plans for Dublin’.
Buying and Selling:
Dublin’s Markets 1500–2019, Wood Quay Venue, 26 January, 2019.
‘The Earl of Orrery and
the defence of the Protestant interest in the settlement of Ireland’.
Tudor & Stuart
Ireland conference, Maynooth University, 29 August, 2015.
Podcast available
at:
https://soundcloud.com/history-hub/liam-maloney-earl-of-orrery-and-defence-of-protestant-interest-in-settlement-of-ireland
University College Dublin degree work
Maloney, L. The ‘best
interest his majesty has in this kingdom’: The Earl of Orrery and the Defence
of the Protestant Interest in the Restoration Settlements of Ireland, 1660-65.
Unpublished M. A. dissertation, University College Dublin, 2014.
Supervisor: (now Professor)
Dr Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin.
Maloney, L. ‘Restoration
Ireland: Secular Loyalties, Confessional Affiliations and Political
Manoeuvrings’. Unpublished B. A. thesis, University College Dublin, 2012.
Supervisor: (now
Associate Professor) Dr Ivar McGrath.
