I am a historian of modern Ireland with a particular interest in birth control, maternity care, female associational culture and the legal status of women in 20th century Ireland. I have a PhD in History from Dublin City University, and currently hold the Roy Foster Irish Government Research Fellowship at Hertford College, Oxford.
I am currently revising my doctoral thesis, ‘“Women are Citizens”: Women’s Groups and the Commission on the Status of Women in Ireland, c. 1967-1979’, for publication. This book investigates the changing legal and social status of women in twentieth-century Ireland.
I also have a long-standing interest in medical history, specifically contraception and maternity care, and the interplay between these issues and the dominant role of Catholicism in twentieth-century Irish society. I have published a study of Dublin maternity hospitals, their patients, and their relationship with the Catholic hierarchy before and after Humanae Vitae, the papal encyclical which reaffirmed the Catholic ban on artificial contraception in 1968.
I am a member of a network of thirteen academics, ‘Reconstituting the Irish Family’. RIFNET is the first long-term, cross-border, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral research network on the Irish family. We seek to challenge the conceptualisation of the ‘traditional’ Irish family as nuclear, white, Catholic, settled, and heterosexual.
Reflecting my expertise in modern Irish history, in 2020 I was invited to contribute to ‘The Way We Were’, a documentary series on social change on RTÉ One. I filmed contextual segments for this series, covering topics such as the marriage bar, equal pay, and employment law.
My research has won national and international awards; in 2019 I received the Women’s History Association of Ireland MacCurtain/Cullen Essay Prize and the Maureen Murphy Award for best paper by a graduate student at the American Conference for Irish Studies Annual Meeting in Boston.
I am a historian of modern Ireland with a particular interest in birth control, maternity care, female associational culture and the legal status of women in 20th century Ireland. I have a PhD in History from Dublin City University, and currently hold the Roy Foster Irish Government Research Fellowship at Hertford College, Oxford.
I am currently revising my doctoral thesis, ‘“Women are Citizens”: Women’s Groups and the Commission on the Status of Women in Ireland, c. 1967-1979’, for publication. This book investigates the changing legal and social status of women in twentieth-century Ireland.
I also have a long-standing interest in medical history, specifically contraception and maternity care, and the interplay between these issues and the dominant role of Catholicism in twentieth-century Irish society. I have published a study of Dublin maternity hospitals, their patients, and their relationship with the Catholic hierarchy before and after Humanae Vitae, the papal encyclical which reaffirmed the Catholic ban on artificial contraception in 1968.
I am a member of a network of thirteen academics, ‘Reconstituting the Irish Family’. RIFNET is the first long-term, cross-border, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral research network on the Irish family. We seek to challenge the conceptualisation of the ‘traditional’ Irish family as nuclear, white, Catholic, settled, and heterosexual.
Reflecting my expertise in modern Irish history, in 2020 I was invited to contribute to ‘The Way We Were’, a documentary series on social change on RTÉ One. I filmed contextual segments for this series, covering topics such as the marriage bar, equal pay, and employment law.
My research has won national and international awards; in 2019 I received the Women’s History Association of Ireland MacCurtain/Cullen Essay Prize and the Maureen Murphy Award for best paper by a graduate student at the American Conference for Irish Studies Annual Meeting in Boston.
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