
‘To visit my mother’ (?): Returning to Ireland during the revolutionary period, 1916-1923′ by Dr Regina Donlon
During the revolutionary era, 1916-1923, a total of 21,754 Irish-born immigrants resident in the United States applied for a passport to visit Ireland. The majority

‘Ireland 2019: Voices from Direct Provision and the State that we are in’ by Stephanie Hanlon
Conference on Direct Provision Ireland 2019: Voices from Direct Provision and the State that we are in Background to the Conference: On Friday 8th November,

‘What history tells us about health panics’ by Dr Ida Milne
Adults in huddles, worriedly discussing a mystery disease the newspapers have been warning is on the way. Children eavesdropping, sensing the fear that is being hidden

Dr James Hoctor (University of Kent): ‘From PhD Researcher to Podcaster’
The idea of creating a podcast series was something I had being flirting with during my doctoral studies; however, this was curtailed by the realities

Nicole Burke (TCD): ‘Feminism, neoliberal discourse and the ‘care crisis’ in Ireland’
I fell in love with feminist theory during my time in Carlow College, St. Patrick’s when I took an elective called ‘Feminist Political Theory’ with

Judy Bolger (TCD): ‘A Hopeless Case’: Constructs of Early Twentieth-century Irish Impoverished Motherhood
In July 1907, Dublin mother Catherine Smith was ‘charged with grossly neglecting her four children, one of them an infant’ and she was subsequently sentenced