Post-Doc

OkeeffeeEamonn O'Keeffe

Email: eamonnok@mun.ca
Office: A-4007
Phone: 709-864-2125

Research Interests: military music during the Napoleonic Wars; duelling and honour among British army officers; war and society in Britain, Ireland and Canada (1793–1815). 

Eamonn completed a DPhil at the University of Oxford in 2022. Before arriving at Memorial, he worked at the University of Cambridge as a National Army Museum Research Fellow. Eamonn's work has been awarded the André Corvisier Prize by the International Commission of Military History and the Pollard Prize by the Institute for Historical Research. His first book, Musical Warriors: British Military Music and the Napoleonic Wars, will be published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in early 2027.

Publications:

E. O’Keeffe, "From Amputee to Author: Shadrack Byfield and the Making of a War of 1812 Veteran," Journal of British Studies (January 2026)
E. O’Keeffe, "British Military Music in Battle during the Napoleonic Wars," International Journal of Military History and Historiography (February 2025)
E. O’Keeffe, "British Military Music and the Legacy of the Napoleonic Wars," The Historical Journal (October 2024)
E. O’Keeffe, "Military Music and Society during the French Wars, 1793–1815," Historical Research (November 2023)
E. O’Keeffe, "'A Natural Passion?' The 1810 Reflections of a Yorkshire Farmer on Homosexuality", Historical Research (February 2021)
E. O’Keeffe, "The Anatomy of a Drum Corps: Drummers and Musicians in the Canadian Regiment of Fencible Infantry, 1803-1816," Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research (Winter 2020)
E. O’Keeffe (ed), Narrative of the Eventful Life of Thomas Jackson: Militiaman and Coldstream Sergeant, 1803-1815 (Helion, 2018)
E. O’Keeffe, "The Old Halberdier: From the Pyrenees to Plattsburgh with a Welshman of the 39th," Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research (Spring, Summer, and Autumn 2017)
E. O’Keeffe, "Such Want of Gentlemanly Conduct: The Court Martial of Lieutenant John de Hertel," Journal of Canadian Military History (Autumn-Winter 2016)