Madeline O’Neill was conferred with a PhD in history by the University of Galway in 2918. Titled ‘From Carnacon to Capetown: An Interpretive Study of the Transnational Career of Senator Colonel Maurice Moore (1854-1939), Soldier, Diplomat and Politician’, it is a biographical study of a significant figure in national and imperial history. In 2019, she presented a paper on ‘Maurice Moore and the Wars of Empire’ at the ‘Aughrim Remembered’ Summer School. She has also participated in local Mayo history projects and a 2022 Oireachtas documentary on the first hundred years of the Senate.

Publications: ‘A Disquieting Presence or an Entangled History? My Parents and the Museum’, Museum Ireland, vol. 28 ( 2021)

‘Moore v Adam: An Irish Merchant in 1812 Alicante: War, Politics and Business’, Étude Irlandaise,vol, 48, no. 2 (2023)

‘The Boer Colonel’: Maurice Moore (1854-1939): Military Hero or Dissident?’, History Ireland, vol. 32, no. 1 (2024)