President:
Dr. Mary McAuliffe
Mary McAuliffe holds a Ph.D in medieval history from the School of History, University of Dublin, Trinity College. She lectures on Women in Irish history, gender/feminist historiography and the histories of sexualities at Women's Studies, School of Social Justice, UCD.Her research interests include Irish women and power, female representations and identities in Irish History, feminist and gender historiography and Irish feminist histories and biographies and she has published widely in these areas. Her most recent co-edited book is the Palgrave Advances in Irish History (2010) and she has published a biography on Senator Kathleen Browne 1876-1943. She is on the Advisory Committee of Justice for Magdalenes (http://www.magdalenelaundries.com/about.htm) and she is a member of the Irish Queer Archive Board (a living-archive held by the National Library of Ireland).
Lecturer,
UCD Women's Studies
Secretary:
Dr. Sonja Tiernan
Sonja Tiernan lectures in History at Liverpool Hope University. She holds a PhD from University College Dublin and held the National Library of Ireland history research studentship 2007-8, where she compiled a research guide to women in Irish history http://www.nli.ie/en/manuscript-research-guides.aspx Sonja was awarded a Government of Ireland Fellowship at the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies at Trinity College Dublin 2008-10 and a visiting fellowship from the National Endowment of the Humanities at the Keough-Naughton Institute of Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame 2010-2011. Her exhibition on Hilda Tweedy and the Irish Housewives Association is currently on display through Dublin City Public Libraries. Her latest book, Eva Gore-Booth: An Image of such Politics is published by Manchester University Press, 2012.
Email: tiernas@hope.ac.uk
Treasurer:
Gerri O'Neill
Gerri O’Neill graduated from DCU’s Oscail programme in 2010 and is currently studying for a PhD by research with the Mater Dei Institute in Dublin. Gerri’s research interests include an examination of the class, religion and educational backgrounds of female revolutionary activists in the early twentieth century. Her current research project focuses on the links between revolutionary nationalism and the Gaelic League. Gerri works full-time in the electronics industry and pursues her academic interests in her spare timeE-mail : geraldine.oneill24@mail.dcu.ie.
International Secretary:
Dr Jennifer Redmond
Jennifer Redmond is an IRCHSS Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of History, NUI Maynooth, Ireland. She completed her undergraduate degree at University College Dublin and an M.Phil and PhD at the School of Histories and Humanities at Trinity CollegeDublin, the latter on the discourses surrounding Irish female migration to Britain during the first decades of Irish independence. Her research interests include migration, women's history (particularly the educational and employment history of Irish women) and digital humanities. Her current research project, 'Regulating Citizenship', focuses on the experiences of Irish migrants in Britain during the Second World War utilising travel permit applications from Irish people across the UK who wished to return home. The project will result in a monograph, "War, Citizens and Migrants",academic articles, an analytical database and a catalogue of the records to be held at the National Archives of Ireland. Dr. Redmond will be taking up a CLIR Fellowship at Bryn Mawr, Philadelphia later this year to head up the establishment of the Albert M. Greenfield Digital Centre for the History of Women's Education.
Email: jmredmon@tcd.ie
I.T. Secretary:
Aisling Farrell
Aisling Farrell is a graduate of St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra (Dublin City University) where she is currently completing a PhD assessing the aims and activities of a variety of women’s organisations in Ireland during the period in between enfranchisement and the rise of the modern women’s movement. Her research has been funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Science’s Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme.
Email: aisling.farrell27@mail.dcu.ie
Executive Committee Member:
Dr. Carla King
Carla King is a Lecturer in Modern History at St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra (a college of Dublin City University). She studied in UCD and the University of London. She teaches European History, Russian History, American History and Women’s History, has published various books and articles relating to Michael Davitt and is working on a biography of his later life.
Lecturer, Department of History, St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
Email: Carla.King@spd.dcu.ie
Executive Committee Member:
Dr. Sandra McAvoy
Sandra McAvoy is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and the National University of Ireland. She teaches Women's Studies in University College Cork. Her research interests include: the history and politics of reproductive rights in Ireland. Published articles include: "Before Cadden: Abortion in Mid-Twentieth Century Ireland", in The Lost Decade: Ireland in the 1950s, edited by Dermot Keogh, Finbarr O'Shea and Carmel Quinlan, Cork: Mercier, 2004; "From Anti-Amendment Campaigns to Demanding Reproductive Justice: the changing landscape of abortion rights activism in Ireland 1983-2008", in Jennifer Schweppe (ed.) The Unborn Child, Article 40.3.3 and Abortion in Ireland: Twenty-Five Years of Protection?: Liffey Press, 2008; and "Sexual Crime and Irish Women's Campaigns for a Criminal Law Amendment Act 1912-1935", in Maryann Valiulis (ed.), Towards NewHistories in Ireland: Writing Gender History: Irish Academic Press, 2008. Lecturer, University College Cork
Email: sandra.mcavoy@ucc.ie
Executive Committee Member:
Mary Clancy
Since the late 1980s, Mary Clancy has lectured and written on the history of women and was one of the founding lecturers in women’s studies in Galway. Teaching interests include women in 19th and 20th century Ireland, historiography of women’s and gender history, emigration, work, the West of Ireland, European women’s studies, life stories and oral history, suffrage and citizenship. Publications include ’Aspects of Women’s Contribution to the Oireachtas debate in the Irish Free State, 1922 – 1937’ in Maria Luddy and Cliona Murphy (editors), Women Surviving: Studies in Irish Women’s History in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Dublin: Poolbeg, 1990), pp 206-232, ’Women of the West: campaigning for the vote in early twentieth century Galway, c.1911-c.1915 in Louise Ryan and Margaret Ward (editors) Irish Women and the Vote: Becoming Citizens (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2007), pp 45-59.
Lecturer & Course Co-ordinator, European Women’s Studies, NUIG, Galway, Ireland
E-mail: mary.clancy@nuigalway.ie
Executive Committee Member:
Dr. Leeann Lane
Leeann Lane is a graduate of University College Cork and Boston College. She is currently Head of Irish Studies and Head of the School of Humanities at Mater Dei Institute of Education, a college of Dublin City University. She is the author of Rosamond Jacob. Third Person Singular (Dublin: UCD Press, 2010). She has also published on the children’s writer, Patricia Lynch and on the co-operative writings of George Russell (AE). She is currently working on a study of single, heterosexual women in the early Free State period. In 2007 Dr Lane held the position of summer scholar in Irish Studies in Boston College.
Email: leeann.lane@materdei.dcu.ie
