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Dr Elaine Callinan is a lecturer in History on the B.A. (Honours) in English & History and the B.A. & B.A. (Honours) in Humanities. Elaine is a first-class B.A. (Hons) graduate of Humanities from Carlow College, and a first-class honours M.Phil. in History graduate from Trinity College Dublin. She completed her Ph.D. study on ‘Electioneering and Propaganda in Ireland, 1917-1920’ in Trinity College Dublin under the supervision of Professor David Fitzpatrick. Elaine also holds a Dioplóma sa Ghaeilge (Irish Language Diploma) from National University of Ireland, Galway and is awaiting an award of Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education from Trinity College Dublin.
Professional Associations:
Member of Irish Association of Professional Historians
Member of Women’s History Association of Ireland.
The focus of Elaine’s research is to examine the political and social landscape in Ireland during the revolutionary era and the early decades of the Irish Free State. She is especially focused on the conduct of election campaigns amid political and military turmoil in Ireland and the lasting impact of these events on both the Free State and Northern Ireland. Elaine is particularly interested in how political decisions and legislation affected the everyday lives of men and women in both urban and rural areas of Ireland. Her work is driven by a broader exploration of the nature of the two Irish states during a period of internal and global conflict, and by situating the Irish experience within a wider global context. Elaine’s principal areas of historical interest are seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Irish and global history and nineteenth and twentieth centuries Irish history.
2025: Elaine Callinan, ‘There can be no compromise’: The Propaganda of the Irish Civil War, in Violence and Propaganda in European Civil Wars, Dimensions of Conflict, 1917-1949, ed by Yiannis Kokosalakis and Francisco J. Leira-Castineira (London & New York, Routledge, 2025).
2025: Book review of Conscription, US Intervention and the Transformation of Ireland 1914-1918 by Emmanuel Destenay for the Journal of Modern History.
2024: Book review of Cathal Brugha, An Indomitable Spirit, Ireland and the Great War for Irish Literary Supplement.
2023: Elaine Callinan, Mel Farrell & Thomas Tormey, Vying for Victory, The 1923 General Election in the Irish Free State (UCD Press, 2023).
2022: Book review of Mary McAuliffe’s, Margaret Skinnider for Women’s History Association of Ireland
Book: Electioneering and Propaganda in Ireland: Votes, Violence and Victory 1917-1921, (Dublin, 2020)
Book Chapter: ‘Voting to maintain the Union in 1918: ‘the strongest pillars upon which they stood’ in Southern Irish Loyalism 1912-1949, edited by Conor Morrissey and Brian Hughes (Liverpool University Press, 2020).
Review of Irish Women and the Great War (Cambridge University Press, 2020) by Fionnuala Walsh for Saothar, journal of the Irish Labour Society
Review of Margaret Skinnider, Life and Times Series, Historical Association of Ireland (Dublin 2021) by Mary McAuliffe for Women’s History Association of Ireland.
Book Chapter ‘The Mood of the Nation: Ireland’s response to Redmond’s call to war in 1914 as reported in the regional press in The Irish Regional Press, 1892-2012: changing media in a changing country (Dublin, 2018)
Carloviana, Journal of the Carlow Historical and Archaeological Society: ‘Carlow and the War of Independence (2020 edition); ‘Carlow and the 1918 General Election (2019 edition).
Irish Times Supplement ‘Countdown to War’: article titled ‘Redmond’s Gamble’ (May 2014).
2024: Newstalk’s Talking History: History of the Fine Gael Party
2024: Newstalk Breakfast
2024: KCLR, ‘Top Tips Tuesday’: Returning to College as a Mature Student
April 2021: ‘Talking History’, Newstalk.
April 2021: Trinity College Dublin Contemporary Irish History Seminar: ‘The 1921 “partition” election’.
March 2021: Women’s History of Ireland Conference, Decade of Centenaries funded panel: ‘Propaganda and women in elections from 1918 to 1920’.
January 2021: Liffeysound 96.4FM, NEARfm. Phoenixfm Athlone, Castlebar, Connemara, Kinvara, Youghal and Kilkenny City: Bookline Show, interview with Teresa Quinn
January 2021: Carlow Nationalist Interview
December 2020, The History Show, RTE, interview with presenter Myles Dungan
April 2020: KCLR Radio, Morning Show on topic of aftermath of recent Irish elections.
Conference 2021: Women’s History Association of Ireland: ‘The best feminist propaganda that is
being done is being done by the mere fact of voting…’: Propaganda and women in elections from
1918 to 1920
Conference: 2019: Economic & Social History Society of Ireland Conference: ‘Money is coming in
with dreadful slowness’: the economics of electioneering to win votes in 1918 Ireland.
Conference 2019: Irish Humanities Alliance Border Heritages Conference: ‘Partition Propaganda
during Election Campaigns 1918-1921.
Irish Congress of Trade Unions and the Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class (NUIG): ‘Labour and the 1918 General Election’.
Westmeath Archaeological and Historical Society, Fourth Annual Conference titled The Struggle for Independence – Ireland and Westmeath in 1919: The First Dáil and constitutional politics in Westmeath.
Diplóma sa Ghaeilge (National University of Ireland, Galway);
B.A. (Carlow College);
PGDip in Higher Education (Trinity College Dublin);
M.Phil. (Trinity College Dublin);
Ph.D. (Trinity College Dublin)
