Various historical endeavours

Collections work at Malahide Castle and Newbridge House

I’ve been working wih the curatorial and collections team at both Malahide Castle and Newbridge House. two historic country houses in north county Dublin. Across several months, I’ve catalogued 1,600+ volumes in Malahide Castle’s library and assisted in the selection of volumes to be added, removed and/or further researched. I have conducted research on individual items at both sites and augmented/updated/corrected collection databases. Other duties include moving furniture, hanging paintings, labelling and boxing items across both sites. (Curator of Malahide Castle and Newbridge House: Cathal Dowd Smith)

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

Proofreading 

I’ve been fortunate to be able to assist friends and colleagues in the final stages of their book publishing processes. I proofread and made suggestions on the texts of the following volumes:

Fletcher, A. Widows of the Ice: The Women that Scott's Antarctic Expedition Left Behind. Stroud, 2022.

Maher, R. K. Sir Charles Wogan: Jacobite, Soldier, Royal Agent & Man of Letters. Barnsley, 2025.

O’Shea, D. M. The Choral Foundation of the Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle: Constitution, Liturgy, Music, 1814-1922. Woodbridge, 2023.

Zuvich, A. Ravenous: A Life of Barbara Villiers, Charles II's Most Infamous Mistress. Barnsley, 2024.

Zuvich, A. Sex and Sexuality in Stuart Britain. Barnsley, 2020.

 

Podcasts and shows

I contributed to The Blizzard podcast of the team at RRS Discvoery and Discovery Point, Dundee. I spoke to Julie Cummings about my research relating to the return of the Antarctic expedition aboard Discovery in 1904 and the short lecture Captain Scott undertook in Scotland. It is available via YouTube (link below).

https://youtu.be/o_qk8oecxEM

Andrea Zuvich, the Seventeenth Century Lady, relaunched her monthly Stuart Saturday Live show in December, 2023. I was the guest for the first episode. It is available via YouTube (link below) and as a podcast.

        https://youtu.be/3D9ARk9ixnQ

I assisted the research for the Valentine’s Day 2023 special episode of the Antarticast podcast. It is available at the Spotify link below.

        https://open.spotify.com/episode/3h1idaWHj8k6L9VAczCWk8?si=8NSWUE39Q0-RcCiofMIrfg&nd=1&dlsi=9a037d55ef994040

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's Endurance 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’:

        https://perceblackborow.blogspot.com/

 

Polar history presentations

Selection of talks presented

9 November, 2024
Irish in the polar regions: 400+ years of adventures in the high latitudes
Online talk to the Irish Genealogical Research Society

3 October, 2024
Shackleton’s 1909 Dublin lecture and the Lady Dudley nurses
Online talk to the Dublin Festival of History

        Available to view online here:https: //youtu.be/uLpxcoLx57M

8 April, 2024
Significant Antarctic firsts: sightings, landings, the South Pole and record-making in Antarctica
Clontarf Historical Society at St John's Resource Centre, Clontarf Road

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

‘Shackleton—genetic certainty or individual spirit?’, The James Caird Society Journal, No. 13 (2025), pp. 45-57.

 

‘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.

‘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.

 

All available here: https://jamescairdsociety.com/journals  

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

‘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 MA dissertation, University College Dublin, 2014. 

Supervisor: (now Professor) Dr Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin.

‘Restoration Ireland: Secular Loyalties, Confessional Affiliations and Political Manoeuvrings’. Unpublished BA thesis, University College Dublin, 2012. 

Supervisor: (now Associate Professor) Dr Ivar McGrath.