PhD Students

Barsi Flippo

Affiliation: Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, Italy.

Specialism: Irish socialist republican history before and during the Irish Revolution

Caomhanach Nula

Affiliation: New York University (4^th year)

Specialism: International conservation law and Madagascar, gender and science.

Gallogly Eliot

Affiliation: University of Galway

Specialism: History of the LGBTQIA+ community in rural Ireland, 20^th century Irish and queer Irish history, 19^th and 20^th century Irish gender and women’s history.

Hickey Orlaith

Affiliation: Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, Dublin City University (4^th year)

Specialism: Representation of women in Irish language history, and Irish folklore tradition

Ingram Katherine

Affiliation: Queen’s University, Belfast (4^th year)

Specialism: The women’s suffrage movement in the United Kingdom between 1900 and 1918. And in particular the impact suffrage militancy and suffragists’ relations with political parties (including the Irish Parliamentary Party, the Liberal Party, the Conservative Party and the Labour Party), and war (including the First World War and the Easter Rising) had on unity between suffragists.

Owens Norma

Affiliation: University of Galway

Specialism: Historical Social Network Analysis, Women’s History, Social History, Long 18th Century, Lace & Textile Industries, Early Modern Ireland

Early Career Academics

Deedigan Susie

Affiliation: University of Notre Dame/Queen’s University of Belfast

Specialism: Gender and politics in Modern Ireland and Britain

Devlin Shannon

Affiliation: University of Galway

Specialism: Siblinghood, cousins, and Irish family, courtship and sexuality in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ireland, Irish middle-class culture and social networking, Victorian Belfast and the province of Ulster, and the role of siblings and extended family in migration from Ireland and the Irish diaspora

Established Academics

Byrne Angela

Affiliation: Royal Irish Academy

Specialism: Eighteenth century and nineteenth century, Irish diaspora, travel writing, life writing

Ellis Tim

Affiliation: Teesside University, Middlesbrough England

Specialism: History of masculinity and gender in the politics of the Irish state, c. 1922-1968

Mc Cabe Ciarán (FRHistS)

Affiliation: Queen’s University Belfast

Specialism: Social and cultural history of poverty and welfare, women’s paid work and urban environments

Walsh Martin (FRHistS)

Affiliation: University of Limerick

Specialism: Oral history, Women and migration 19^th and 20^th century Ireland and England, campaigns against perceived immorality in Irish and English Society late 19^th and early 20^th century

Independent Historians

Chemin Cecile

Affiliation: Military Archive, Dublin (Independent researcher)

Specialism: Women in the revolutionary period

Henderson Ciara (PhD)

Affiliation: Independent

Specialism: History of Maternity, Childbirth, Reproductive Loss (Miscarriage, Stillbirth, Neonatal Death), Death Studies, Burial, Bereavement, Perinatal Death, Infant and Maternal Mortality, Midwifery

Jobling Suzanne (PhD) ( suzannejobling@gmail.com )

Affiliation: Independent

Specialism: Women’s employment and employment equality legislation in the UK and Ireland during the second half of the twentieth century. And in particular equal pay, sex discrimination and maternity discrimination cases taken by women against their employers

Noonan Geraldine (PhD)

Affiliation: Independent (gnoonan4621@gmail.com)

Specialism: Education in Ireland in the 19th century provided by French congregations of teaching sisters

McGillicuddy Mary

Affiliation: Independent Researcher ( marymacgkerry@gmail.com)

Specialism: The role of women in the fishing industry, particularly in Ireland / Europe in 18-20th centuries

Mulcahy Megan (PhD)

Affiliation: Independent

Specialism: History of childhood, rural life, poverty, and gender

The Members Directory will be updated on the 1st of June and the 1st December each year