Research Interests
I am open to PhD applications in the fields of gender history since c.1800; Irish and British women's history since c.1800; Modern Irish history especially political activism, the Anglo-Irish and legal history including divorce, marriage, abortion and reform processes.
Public outreach & key achievements
I am an elected member of the Royal Irish Academy and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. I am also President of the Women's History Association of Ireland (WHAI) and Deputy Editor of the Women's History Review. My monograph, Irish Divorce: A History (Cambridge University Press, 2020) won the James S. Donnelly, Sr. prize for best book in the Humanities and Social Sciences, ACIS, 2021.
Research students
| PhD Title | Equal employment in Britain and Ireland, 1970-85 |
| Name | Suzanne Jobling |
| Country | UK |
| Years of Study | 2020-24 |
| PhD Title | Kinship in the Irish revolution |
| Name | Emma Dewhirst |
| Country | UK |
| Years of Study | 2020-25 |
| PhD Title | Unity in the UK suffrage movement |
| Name | Katherine Ingram |
| Country | UK |
| Years of Study | 2021-24 |
Alumni: Where are they now
| PhD Title | Shellshock and Irish soldiers in World War I |
| Name | Dr Michael Robinson |
| Graduated | 2017 |
| Country | UK |
| Current Position | National Army Museum research associate, Birmingham University, UK |
| PhD Title | Methodism and the Home Rule crises, 1886-1914 |
| Name | Dr Nicola Morris |
| Graduated | 2007 |
| Country | UK |
| Current Position | Lecturer, Chester University, UK |