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Faculty Member, Politics, History, Media & Communications
Lecturer in Modern History
About
Secretary of the Women's History Association of Ireland.
Associate member of the Irish Historical Society.
Member of Newspaper and Periodical History Forum of Ireland.
Editorial Board Member, Irish Journal of Feminist Studies.
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS:
• Eva Gore-Booth: An Image of Such Politics. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012.
• Fiametta by Eva Gore-Booth, introduced and edited by Sonja Tiernan, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.
• Tribades, Tommies and Transgressives: Histories of Sexualities Volume I. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
• Sapphists and Sexologists: Histories of Sexualities Volume II. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.
Peer Reviewed Articles and Chapters
• ‘Challenging Presumptions of Heterosexuality: Eva Gore-Booth, A Biographical Case Study,’ in Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques, Vol 37, Issue 2, Summer 2011, pp. 58-71.
• ‘Tabloid Sensationalism or Revolutionary Feminism? the first-wave feminist movement in an Irish women’s periodical,’ Irish Communications Review, Vol 12, 2010, pp. 74-87.
• ‘Eva Gore-Booth: “The women’s suffrage movement among trade unionists,’” in editor Tiffany K. Wayne, Landmarks in Feminist Writings. Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2011. (Forthcoming.)
• "The Sligo Co-Operative Movement," in Founder to Shore: Cross-currents in Irish and Scottish Studies. Aberdeen: AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, 2010, pp. 189-196.
• "Hidden in Plain Sight: Uncovering the History of Meath Women," in Ríocht na Mídhe: Meath Archaeological and Historical Society. Vol. XXI, 2010, pp. 93-109
• “‘It Should not be so easy to Construct a Man:’ A History of Female to Male Transsexuality” in Sapphists and Sexologists: Histories of Sexualities Volume 2. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, pp. 56-70.
• "A Zealous Catholic and a Notorious Trouble-Maker:’ The Gormanston Papers in the National Library of Ireland” in Ríocht na Mídhe: Meath Archaeological and Historical Society. Vol. XX, 2009.
• “The Journal Urania (1916-40): An Alternative Archive of Radical Gender Masquerade,” in Essays in Irish Literary Criticism: Themes of Gender, Sexuality, and Corporeality. Eds. Sharon Tighe-Mooney and Deirdre Quinn. Wales: Edward Mellen Press, 2008, pp. 50-64.
• “No Measures of Emancipation or Equality Will Suffice:’ Eva Gore-Booth’s Radical Feminism in the journal Urania,” in Women, Social and Cultural Change in Twentieth Century Ireland: Dissenting Voices? Eds. Sarah O’Connor and Christopher Shepard. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008, pp. 166-82.
• “‘Engagements Dissolved:’ Eva Gore-Booth, Urania and the Challenge to Marriage,” in Tribades, Tommies and Transgressives: Histories of Sexualities Volume I. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008, pp. 128-44.
• “The Politics of Lesbian Fiction: Interview with Novelist Sarah Waters,” in Irish Feminist Review. Vol 2, 2006, pp. 148-59.
• “Tipping the Balance with Historical Fiction: Tipping the Velvet as a Lesbian Feminist Device,” in Irish Feminist Review. Vol 1, 2005, pp. 161-78.
Catalogues and Research Guides
• Gormanston Papers: Collection List No. 132. Dublin: National Library of Ireland, 2008. Available at http://www.nli.ie/en/manuscript-research-guides.aspx
• Eileen O’Casey Papers: Collection List No. 137. Dublin: National Library of Ireland, 2008. Available at http://www.nli.ie/en/manuscript-research-guides.aspx
• Women in Irish History: Research Guide. Dublin: National Library of Ireland, 2008. Available at http://www.nli.ie/en/manuscript-research-guides.aspx
Research Reports
• Co-Author with Ursula Barry and Catherine Conlon. “Work-Life Balance – the Irish National Report: Equality between Women and Men.” External report commissioned by and presented to the EU directorate General Employment and Social Affairs.
Media
Radio Zeitreinen, Germany. ‘Rebel Sisters: Struggle between Freedom and Feminism,’ 6 December 2009 at 1.05pm. Dr Sonja Tiernan and Dr Moynagh Sullivan discuss the sisters Eva Gore-Booth and Constance Markievicz with Imogen Herrad.
<http://www.br-online.de/bayern2/radiozeitreisen/feature-radiozeitreise
ACACEMIC PRESENTATIONS
• April 2011: The Political Life of Eva Gore-Booth. A mini-conference with Professor Maria Luddy and Dr Ruan O’Donnell as respondents. Keough-Naughton Institute of Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA.
• November 2010: The Prison Writings of Countess Markievicz. Guest lecture to undergraduate Irish History class. University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.
• May 2010: Eva Gore-Booth: the gazelle of Lissadell. Invited Speaker National Library of Ireland Society Public Lecture.
• April 2010: Eva Gore-Booth: An Irish trade unionist in Manchester. North West Labour History Event. Invited Speaker Working Class Movement Library, Manchester, UK.
• February 2010: Locating Manuscript Sources for Women in Irish History. Invited Speaker Clondalkin Community Development Project, Outreach Program.
• October 2009: Eva Gore-Booth, Poet and Social Reformer - recovering an Irish woman’s biography. Sixth Irish-Scottish Academic Initiative Conference, Invited Speaker University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
• May 2009: "Eva Gore-Booth: An Irish Woman in England." Women's History Association of Ireland Conference, Trinity College Dublin.
• March 2009: Invited Speaker, "Hidden in Plain Sight: Uncovering the Women's History in the National Libray of Ireland. National Library of Ireland Public Lecture, Library week.
• November 2008: “Some vague Utopia:” Eva Gore-Booth’s Writings from England. Writing the Irish Diaspora Conference. Department of Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Limerick.
• May 2008: Key Note Speaker. Eva Gore-Booth and Celtic Revival Drama. Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, Cultural Seminar. Trinity College Dublin.
• February 2008: Urania and the Radical Feminist Challenge to Marriage. Writing Culture: Theories and Praxis Conference. WERRC, University College Dublin.
• July 2007: “One Woman’s Celtic Literary Revival.” The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL) Conference, University College Dublin.
• May 2007: “ Sex is an Accident: Female to Male Transsexuality in the Radical Journal Urania (1916-1940.)” New Voices Symposium, College of Human Sciences’ Graduate School, University College Dublin.
• May 2007: Invited Speaker. “Histories of Sexualities: Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper, a Case Study.” aLAF (a Lesbian Arts Festival) Temple Bar Centre, Dublin.
• April 2007: “ Eva Gore-Booth and the Development of an Irish Feminist Theology. “ Irish Feminist Thought Conference, University College Galway.
• April 2007: “It Should not be so Easy to ‘Construct’ a ‘Man:’” Female to Male Transsexuality in the Journal Urania. New Research in Irish Feminism Conference. School of Histories and Humanities, Trinity College Dublin.
• March 2007: “To see her play Fiametta is a revelation of a dream:” Eva Gore-Booth’s radical challenge to marriage in the play “Fiametta.” Feminist Research Seminar Series. School of Social Justice, University College Dublin.
• February 2007: “Well Worth Reassessing:” Eva Gore-Booth’s Radical Life and Literature. M.Litt./Ph.D., Seminar Series, Trinity College Dublin.
• October 2006: “ Eva Gore-Booth’s Radical Feminist Theosophy.” Women in Irish Culture and History Conference, University College Dublin.
• June 2006: “Engagements Dissolved;” Eva Gore-Booth, Urania and the Challenge to Marriage. Single Women in History Conference. Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, University of West England, Bristol.
• May 2006: “To Obtain Equality One Must Throw Sex Overboard:” Sexuality, Gender and the Sexed Biological Body in Urania. New Voices Conference. Department of English, National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
• May 2006: “Refuse to Wear the Shackles of Sex:” Cross-Dressing, Transvestism and Intersex in the Journal Urania 1916-1940. Irish Feminist Futures Postgraduate Conference, University College Cork.
• April, 2006: “No Measures of ‘Emancipation’ or ‘Equality’ Will Suffice;” Eva Gore-Booth’s Radical Feminism in Urania. Women, Culture and Public Life in Twentieth Century Ireland Conference, Queens University, Belfast.
• February 2006: “There are no ‘men’ or ‘women’ in Urania:” Lesbian Lives Conference XIII. School of Social Justice, University College Dublin.
• November 2005: Urania a Challenge to the History of Feminist Activism. Work in Progress Symposium. School of Social Justice, University College Dublin.
• May 2005: “An Angel Troubles the Waters:” Eva Gore-Booth’s Literature. Women’s Studies Conference. Department of English, University College Cork.
• March 2005: Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper: “A Pair of Oddities.” Double Vision Conference. Department of English, University College Dublin.
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