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Griffin, B (2019) 'Cycling in Waterford in the Victorian and Edwardian eras.' Decies: Journal of the Waterford Archaeological and Historical Society, 75. pp. 59-85.

Griffin, B (2019) Crime, violence, and the Irish in the nineteenth century [book review]. Irish Studies Review, 27 (4). pp. 583-585.

Griffin, B (2019) 'Banishing ennui, blue devils and thoughts of bad potatoes: the country house and sport and leisure during the Great Famine.' In: Dooley, T and Ridgeway, C, eds. Sport and leisure in the Irish and British country house. Four Courts Press, Dublin, pp. 132-149. ISBN 9781846828065

Griffin, B and Strachan, J (2019) 'Leaving in Irish history, politics and culture.' In: Finnerty, K, ed. The 11th Percy French Festival - taking French leave: leaving in Irish history, politics and culture. Percy French School, Castlecoote, Ireland, pp. 2-9. Please click the title to check availability.

Griffin, B (2019) Leaving the Irish Police: the Dublin Metropolitan Police and the Royal Irish Constabulary. In: The 11th Percy French Festival - Taking French Leave: Leaving in Irish History, Politics and Culture, 10 - 12 July 2019, Castlecoote House, Co. Roscommon, Ireland.

Griffin, B and Strachan, J (2019) 'Introduction: sport in Ireland from the 1880s to the 1920s.' Irish Studies Review, 27 (3). pp. 299-308.

Griffin, B (2019) 'Cycle camping in Victorian and Edwardian Ireland.' Irish Studies Review, 27 (3). pp. 377-401.

Griffin, B (2019) 'The early history of cycling in Ireland: hobby-horses, tricycles, quadricycles and other velocipedes.' In: Sanderson, G, Baker, T and Sanderson, P.P, eds. Cycle History 29: 29th International Cycling History Conference, London, England, 2018. ICHC Publications Committee, Verona, pp. 116-121. ISBN 9780578209562

Griffin, B (2018) 'Robert Cromie's writings in the cycling press in the 1880s.' Lecale Review, 16. pp. 47-52.

Griffin, B (2018) 'William Millar Woodside (1860-1890): Coleraine's forgotten cycling champion.' Bann Disc: The Journal of the Coleraine Historical Society, 24. pp. 25-34.

Griffin, B (2018) '"The more sport the merrier, say we": sport in Ireland during the Great Famine.' Irish Economic and Social History, 45 (1). pp. 90-114.

Griffin, B (2018) Sport in Ireland during the Great Famine. In: Annual Lecture Series of Meath Archaeological and Historical Society, 8 July 2018, Trim Library, Trim, Co. Meath, Ireland.

Griffin, B (2018) Before the high wheel: hobby-horses, quadricycles, tricycles and velocipedes in Ireland, 1819-1869. In: The Future from the Past: 29th International Cycle History Conference, 15 June 2018, City of London Guildhall, UK.

Griffin, B (2018) The country house and sport and leisure during the Great Famine. In: The Country House and Leisure: The 16th Annual Historical Houses Conference, 9 June 2018, Maynooth University, Ireland.

Griffin, B (2018) Cycling: a Canterbury pilgrimage/an Italian pilgrimage [book review]. Sport in History, 38 (2). pp. 246-248.

Griffin, B (2017) 'Count Konstantin Norbert Stadnicki, Poland's Irish cycling champion.' The Boneshaker: The Journal of the Veteran-Cycle Club, 21 (205). pp. 4-13.

Griffin, B (2017) 'Betham, Cecilia Maria Eleanor.' In: Quinn, J, ed. Dictionary of Irish biography online. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Griffin, B (2017) Percy French: a sceptical observer of his world? As seen through the lens of his cycling journalism. In: Towards a Third Republic: The Percy French Festival, 5 - 7 July 2017, Castlecoote House, Co. Roscommon, Ireland.

Griffin, B (2017) 'The tourist gaze: cycling tourists’ impressions of Victorian and Edwardian Ireland.' Irish Studies Review, 25 (3). pp. 283-315.

Griffin, B (2017) Cycle camping in Ireland in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. In: 28th International Cycling History Conference, 29 May - 1 June 2017, Technoseum, Mannheim, Germany.

Griffin, B (2017) Sport and class in Ireland during the Great Famine. In: The Great Famine and Social Class: Conflicts, Responsibilities, Representations, 20 - 21 April 2017, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Griffin, B (2016) The policing of Belfast 1870–1914 [book review]. Irish Studies Review, 24 (4). pp. 473-474.

Griffin, B (2016) Percy French: a portrait of the artist as a cycling journalist. In: The French Letter: The Percy French Festival, 6 -8 July 2016, Castlecoote House, Co. Roscommon, Ireland.

Griffin, B (2016) 'Cecilia Betham (1843-1913): Ireland's first female international sports star.' History Ireland, 24 (3). pp. 30-33.

Griffin, B (2016) '"Bad roads will absolutely nip in the bud the new development": cycling tourism in Ireland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.' In: Lane, L and Murphy, W, eds. Leisure and the Irish in the nineteenth century. Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, pp. 187-206. ISBN 9781781381823

Griffin, B (2016) Sport during the Great Famine. In: International Sports and Leisure History Colloquium, 26-27 February 2016, MMU Cheshire, Crewe, UK.

Griffin, B (2016) Murder most Irish [book review]. Irish Literary Supplement, 36 (1). pp. 18-19.

Griffin, B (2016) Sport and Ireland: a history [book review]. Reviews in History, 1937.

Griffin, B (2015) Soccer in Munster: a social history 1877-1937 [book review]. Irish Studies Review, 24 (1). pp. 105-106.

Griffin, B (2015) Sport in Ireland, 1600-1800 [book review]. Irish Studies Review, 23 (3). pp. 364-365.

Griffin, B (2015) San Fairy Ann? Motorcycles and British victory 1914-1918 [book review]. The Irish Sword, 30 (119). pp. 115-116.

Griffin, B (2014) 'A most diabolical deed': infanticide and Irish society, 1850-1900 [book review]. Irish Studies Review, 22 (4). pp. 529-530.

Griffin, B (2014) Whizzing in all directions: a history of cycling in Ireland. OpenLearn.

Griffin, B (2014) '"As happy as seven kings": cycling in nineteenth-century Ireland.' History Ireland, 22 (1). pp. 32-35.

Griffin, B (2013) 'All colours of the rainbow, including black and gold: making and selling bicycles in Ireland in the 1880s and 1890s.' Irish Historical Studies, 38 (152). pp. 620-642.

Griffin, B (2013) 'Anti-Catholicism in Bath from 1820 to 1870.' Recusant History, 31 (4). pp. 593-611.

Griffin, B (2013) 'The big house at play: archery as an elite pastime from the 1830s to the 1870s.' In: O'Neill, C, ed. Irish elites in the nineteenth century. Nineteenth-century Ireland (15). Four Courts Press, Dublin, pp. 153-171. ISBN 9781846823510

Griffin, B (2013) 'Sporting policemen: sports and the police in Victorian and Edwardian Ireland.' Eire-Ireland, 48 (1&2). 54- 78.

Griffin, B (2013) 'The bicycle and the British Army in Victorian Ireland.' The Irish Sword, XXIX (116). pp. 163-178.

Griffin, B (2011) 'The Fenians and Irish history, 1858-1916.' New Perspective on Modern History, 17 (1). pp. 1-5.

Griffin, B (2011) Human encumbrances: political violence and the Great Irish Famine [book review]. Irish Studies Review, 21 (2). pp. 228-229.

Griffin, B (2010) 'Introduction.' In: Griffin, B and McWilliams, E, eds. Irish Studies in Britain. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, pp. 2-6. ISBN 9781443824125

Griffin, B and McWilliams, E, eds. (2010) Irish studies in Britain: new perspectives on history and literature. Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle upon Tyne. ISBN 9781443824125

Griffin, B (2010) 'Irish cycling clubs, 1869-1901.' In: Kelly, J and Comerford, R.V, eds. Associational culture in Ireland and abroad. Irish Academic Press, Dublin, pp. 105-126. ISBN 9780716530787

Griffin, B (2009) 'Introduction.' In: Griffin, B, ed. New voices in Irish studies: essays on history and literature. Bath Spa University Press, Bath, UK, pp. 9-14.

Griffin, B (2009) Irish republicanism in Scotland 1858-1916: Fenians in exile [book review]. The Irish Sword, 26 (106). pp. 458-459.

Griffin, B, ed. (2009) New voices in Irish studies: essays on history and literature. Bath Spa University Press, Bath.

Griffin, B (2009) Sport and society in Victorian Ireland: the case of Westmeath [book review]. Irish Studies Review, 17 (4). pp. 525-526.

Griffin, B (2009) 'The romance of the wheel: cycling, fiction and late nineteenth-century Ireland.' Sport in History, 29 (2). pp. 277-295.

Griffin, B (2008) The Irish policeman 1822-1922: a life, and, The memoirs of John M. Regan: a Catholic officer in the RIC and RUC, 1908-48 [book review]. Irish Studies Review, 16 (3). pp. 345-347.

Griffin, B (2008) Cycling and society [book review]. Contemporary British History, 22 (3). pp. 429-431.

Griffin, B (2007) 'The Fenians in Ulster, 1858-1867.' The Irish Sword, xxv. pp. 281-310.

Griffin, B (2007) Royal Irish Constabulary officers: a biographical dictionary and genealogical guide, 1816-1922 [book review]. Irish Studies Review, 15 (1). pp. 92-94.

Griffin, B (2006) Cycling in Victorian Ireland. Nonsuch Publishing, Dublin. ISBN 1845885627

Griffin, B (2006) 'Prevention and detection of crime in nineteenth-century Ireland.' In: Dawson, N.M, ed. Reflections on law and history : Irish Legal History Society discourses and other papers, 2000-2005. Four Courts Press, Dublin, pp. 99-125. ISBN 9781851829378

Griffin, B (2006) Belfast's unholy war: the Troubles of the 1920s [book review]. Irish Studies Review, 14 (2). pp. 281-282.

Griffin, B (2006) 'Cycling and gender in Victorian Ireland.' Eire-Ireland, 41 (1&2). pp. 213-241.

Griffin, B (2006) Sport and the Irish: histories, identities, issues [book review]. Irish Studies Review, 14 (3). pp. 390-392.

Griffin, B (2005) Sources for the study of crime in Ireland, 1801-1921. Maynooth research guides for Irish local history, 9 . Four Courts Press, Dublin. ISBN 9781851829507

Griffin, B (2005) Captain Rock, night errant: the threatening letters of pre-famine Ireland, 1801-1845 [book review]. Irish Studies Review, 13 (2). pp. 242-244.

Griffin, B (2005) 'A forgotten Meath author: Katherine Frances Purdon.' Ríocht na Midhe, xvi. pp. 142-169.

Griffin, B (2004) 'Luby, Thomas Clarke.' In: Matthew, H and Harrison, B, eds. Oxford dictionary of national biography. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 659-660. ISBN 9780198614111

Griffin, B (2004) The Royal Irish Constabulary: a history and personal memoir [book review]. Irish Economic and Social History, 31 (1). pp. 160-161.

Griffin, B (2004) 'The early history of cycling in Meath and Drogheda.' Ríocht na Midhe, xv. pp. 123-151.

Griffin, B (2004) 'The revival at local level: Katherine Frances Purdon's portrayal of rural Ireland.' In: FitzSimon, B.T and Murphy, J.H, eds. The Irish Revival reappraised. Four Courts Press, Dublin, pp. 175-186. ISBN 9781851827572

Griffin, B (2003) ''Dublin Metropolitan Police'; 'Royal Irish Constabulary'; 'James Stephens'; 'Thomas Clarke Luby' 'Irish involvement in the Crimean War'.' In: Lalor, B, ed. The encyclopedia of Ireland. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT. ISBN 9780300094428

Griffin, B (2003) The Irish Revolution, 1913-1923 [book review]. Irish Studies Review, 11 (3). pp. 353-354.

Griffin, B (2003) ''The Irish army'; 'Royal Irish Constabulary'; 'Policing in Ireland'.' In: Ruckenstein, L and O'Malley, J.A, eds. Everything Irish: the history, literature, art, music, people, and places of Ireland from A-Z. Ballantine Books, Westminster, MD. ISBN 9780345461100

Griffin, B (2003) Irish history: a research yearbook, number 1 [book review]. Irish Studies Review, 11 (1). pp. 93-94.

Griffin, B (2003) Religion, politics and violence in nineteenth-century Ireland: the Pound and Sandy Row [book review]. Irish Studies Review, 11 (2).

Griffin, B (2002) The Dublin Metropolitan Police: a short history and genealogical guide, and, The Dublin Metropolitan Police: a complete alphabetical list of officers and men, 1836-1925 [book review]. Irish Studies Review, 10 (2). pp. 212-214.

Griffin, B (2001) 'Ireland and the Crimean War.' The Irish Sword, xxii (89). pp. 281-312.

Griffin, B (2001) 'An Irishman's proposal for aerial bombing during the Crimean War.' The Irish Sword, xxii (90). pp. 427-431.

Griffin, B (2000) Bloody Sunday and the rule of law in Northern Ireland [book review]. Reviews in History, 149.

Griffin, B (2000) The Royal Irish Constabulary: a complete alphabetical list of officers and men, 1816-1922; The Irish constabularies 1822-1922: a century of policing; and, A policeman's Ireland: recollections of Samuel Waters, RIC [book review]. Irish Economic and Social History, 27 (1). pp. 145-147.

Griffin, B (2000) Slanguage: a dictionary of slang and colloquial English in Ireland [book review]. International Journal of Lexicography, 13 (4). pp. 337-339.

Griffin, B (2000) ''Some intriguing parson, who wishes to attract attention': Reverend Richard Ryan.' Ríocht na Midhe, xi. pp. 106-123.

Griffin, B (2000) Sport and nationalism in Ireland: Gaelic games, soccer and Irish identity since 1884 [book review]. Irish Studies Review, 8 (2). pp. 259-260.

Griffin, B (2000) The church, the state and the Fenian threat 1861-75 [book review]. Irish Studies Review, 8 (1). pp. 107-109.

Griffin, B (1999) 'A force divided: policing Ireland 1900-60.' History Today, 49 (10). pp. 25-31.

Griffin, B (1998) '"Such varmint": The Dublin police and the public, 1838-1913.' In: Briggs, S, Hyland, P and Sammells, N, eds. Reviewing Ireland: essays and interviews from Irish Studies Review. Sulis Press, Bath, UK, pp. 57-65. ISBN 9780952685654

Griffin, B (1998) 'Irish identity and the Crimean War.' In: Taithe, B and Thornton, T, eds. War: identities in conflict, 1300-2000. Themes in history . Sutton, Stroud, pp. 113-124. ISBN 9780750916837

Griffin, B (1998) The Royal Irish Constabulary: a short history and genealogical guide [book review]. Irish Studies Review, 6 (1). pp. 78-80.

Griffin, B (1997) The Bulkies: police and crime in Belfast, 1800-1865. Irish Legal History Society, 7 . Irish Academic Press, Dublin. ISBN 9780716526704

Griffin, B (1997) 'The Irish police: love, sex and marriage in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.' In: Kelleher, M and Murphy, H, eds. Gender perspectives in 19th century Ireland: public and private spheres. Irish Academic Press, Dublin, pp. 168-178. ISBN 9780716525905

Griffin, B (1997) Politics, law and order in nineteenth-century Ireland [book review]. Irish Studies Review, 5 (17). pp. 46-47.

Griffin, B (1997) A history of the Garda Siochana: a social history of the force, 1922-52, with an overview for the years 1952-97 [book review]. Irish Studies Review, 5 (19). pp. 46-47.

Griffin, B (1996) The Irish diaspora: a primer [book review]. Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, 23 (1-2). pp. 142-143.

Griffin, B (1995) ''Scallions, pikes and bog oak ornaments': the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the Chicago Fenian Fair, 1864.' Studia Hibernica, 29. pp. 85-97.

Griffin, B (1995) '"Such varmint": the Dublin police and the public, 1838–1913.' Irish Studies Review, 4 (13). pp. 21-25.

Griffin, B (1994) ''Mad dogs and Irishmen': dogs and rabies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.' Ulster Folklife. pp. 1-15.

Griffin, B (1994) 'An agrarian murder and evictions in Rathcore.' Ríocht na Midhe, ix (1). pp. 88-103.

Griffin, B (1990) 'Religion and opportunity in the Irish police forces, 1836-1914.' In: Comerford, R, Cullen, M, Hill, J and Lennon, C, eds. Religion, conflict and coexistence in Ireland: essays presented to Monsignor Patrick J.Corish. Gill and Macmillan, Dublin, pp. 219-234. ISBN 0717117367

Griffin, B (1988) ''Gaelic culture'.' In: Mitchell, S, ed. Victorian Britain: an encyclopedia. Garland, New York; London, pp. 317-318. ISBN 0824015134

Griffin, B (1986) 'Social aspects of Fenianism in Leinster and Connacht, 1858-1870.' Eire-Ireland, xxi (1). pp. 16-39.