At a time when issues of gender and sexuality are as prominent as they have ever been,
Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe provides an authoritative exploration of the …

The recent Final Report of the Commission into Mother and Baby Homes (January 2021)
has received considerable criticism for suggesting that the Irish family was as responsible as …

This chapter examines the role of gender within Irish family life, exploring the changing
dynamics across the seventy years following the Great Famine of 1847–52. It discusses …

Reflecting the call for diverse opinions in knowledge production, this article is a personal
perspective on the positioning of Black Studies in Ireland. Black Studies as praxi-theory …

This article focuses on an underexplored aspect of the Catholic convent school experience,
namely the kinds of socialisation and regulation of emotion maintained within the convent …

This special issue introduces new research on historical approaches to the Irish family. The
articles in this collection have grown out of the Reconstituting the Irish Family Research …

Purpose-built lunatic asylums were constructed across the British Isles for the reception of
the pauper insane from the first decades of the nineteenth century. These large institutions …

In the summer of 2010, in that odd little interspace between my submitting a PhD and
defending it, my partner and I spent a month teaching English at a private school nestled …

Clothing was hugely important in the identification of criminal suspects at large, missing
persons, or deceased strangers in the nineteenth century. Descriptions of dress thus feature …

This article traces the educational mission of three Catholic convent boarding schools from
the late eighteenth century until the 1920s, highlighting striking similarities in Catholic …