Editing Trinity Hall, Cambridge (section)

=== 2018–2023 allegations of plagiarism ===
In June 2023, allegations of plagiarism by O'Reilly publicly emerged, having been first reported to the university in 2021. Documents shown to the ''[[Financial Times]]'' showed how nearly half of O'Reilly's published article '[[Fredrick Jackson Turner]]’s Frontier Thesis, [[Orientalism]], and the Austrian Militärgrenze' in a 2018 volume of the ''[[Journal of Austrian-American History]]'' had been plagiarised from the work of a third-year undergraduate. O'Reilly had been responsible for marking the student's work and had commented that it "coined an original narrative." After a two-year investigation by the University, the plagiarism was found by a tribunal to be “the product of negligent acts but was not deliberate”. O'Reilly remained in post but [[Penn State University Press]], the journal's publisher, retracted the paper concerned saying that it presented "material without credit." O'Reilly did not contest or dispute the retraction.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cook |first1=Chris |last2=Staton |first2=Bethan |date=16 June 2023 |title=Cambridge professor remains in post despite plagiarism |url=https://www.ft.com/content/ae7f16ae-95ab-4aae-a676-0748e3e61b6d |access-date=19 June 2023 |work=Financial Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=McGuirk |first1=Colm |date=18 June 2023 |title=Irish Cambridge Professor Who Plagiarised Student's Work Keeps Job |url=https://extra.ie/2023/06/18/news/irish-cambridge-professor-copied-student-work |access-date=19 June 2023}}</ref>