Dr. Breda Gray
Biography
Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Limerick; Director of MA Gender, Culture& Society; Convener of Gender Arc @UL PhD. Sociology, Lancaster University, England; MA Lancaster University; MSW University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; Diploma Legal Studies, College of Commerce, Rathmines (Dublin Institute of Technology); B.Soc.Sc. (Hons.), University College, Dublin, Ireland.Research Interests
My research interests cover the politics of gender/sexuality, migration, diaspora and religion in relation to contemporary governing processes. On-going research projects include:
-Migration, state and faith: post-welfarist modes of solidarity
-The politics of state diaspora engagement
-Gender and post-Fordist work/life
Professional Activities
Award
- 2020 - Member of Working Group
- 2020 - Member of the Special Interest Group for the Study of the Collaborative Economy in Ireland SIG-SCEI
- 2020 - Researching and Advocating for Quality Education: Achieving Equality for Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth in Schools
- 2019 - Visiting Scholar Award
- 2015 - New Foundations Mentor
- 2014 - Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Nominee for UL Award for Excellence in Research
- 2014 - New Foundations Mentor
- 2013 - Partner on Women's Mobility in Contemporary Galician and Irish Literatures
- 2013 - Seed Funding
- 2011 - New Foundations Mentor
- 2009 - PI The Irish Catholic Church and the Politics of Migration
- 2008 - UL Seed Funding Somadic Work/Life and National Technology Park
- 2008 - PI Nomadic Work/Life and the Knowledge Economy
- 2002 - UL Partner Narratives of Migration and Return
- 2001 - PI Travellers' Tales. Remembering 1950s Ireland
- 2000 - PI Immigrant Lives. Life Narratives of New Immigrants to Ireland
- 2000 - Scientist in Charge (Marie Curie)
- 1999 - PI - HEA -PRTLI Research Project Award
- 1995 - Economic and Social Research Council Post-Graduate Award
- 1993 - Lancaster University, Social Science post-graduate award
- 1984 - Rotary Foundation International Fellow Award
Association
- 2017 Associate Editorial Board member, BSA Journal of Work, Employment and Society
- 2013 Editorial Board Member, Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions (JISASR)
- 2009 International Board Member, SAI - Irish Journal of Sociology
- 2006 Founding Editorial Board Member, Translocations. Migration and Social Change
- 2003 Editorial Board Member, Irish Feminist Review
- 2003 Founding Editorial Board Member, Migration Letters. An International Journal of Migration Studies
Committee
- 2016 Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Internationalisation Committee,
- 2013 Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Scienes Post-graduate Research Committee, *
- 2002 University of Limerick Research Ethics Committee, *
- 1996 DION, *
Employment
- 2000 University College Cork, Irish Centre for Migration Studies - Head of Research
- 1999 University College Cork, Irish Centre for Migration Studies - Research Fellow
- 1997 University College Cork, Department of Sociology - Lecturer in Sociology
- 1994 Lancaster University, Department of Sociology - Tutor, Sociology and Women's Studies
- 1993 Edge Hill University College, Lancs. - P/T Lecturer in Applied Social Science
- 1993 University of Central Lancashire - P/T Lecturer in Sociology
Education
- 1998 Lancaster University - PhD
- 1993 Lancaster University - MA
- 1986 CCETSW - Professional Qualification in Social Work
- 1985 University of British Columbia - Master of Social Work Degree
- 1984 College of Commerce Rathmines - Diploma
- 1980 University College, Dublin. - BA
Consultancy
- - Collaborative Research Project - University of Hull and University of York
- - Member of Steering Group HEA PRTLI 1 project - The Irish Women¿s Movement, NUI Cork (1999-2002).
- - Member of Steering Group HEA PRTLI 1 project - Women in Paid Employment in Munster 1936-60, NUI Cork (1999-2002)
- - Voluntary sector agencies in Britain
Language
- English
Books
Book Chapters
Catholic Church Civil Society Activism and the Neolberal Govermental Project of Migrant Integration in Ireland
Dr. Breda Gray
2012
Farnham, Surrey
Ashgate
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Gendered Constructions of Irishness: Stagnation or Change in Irish Society since Independence
Dr. Breda Gray
1996
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Global Modernities and the gendered epic of the Irish Empire
Dr. Breda Gray
2003
Oxford
Berg
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Migrant integration and the "network-making power" of the Irish Catholic Church
Dr. Breda Gray
2013
Manchester
Manchester University Press
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Irish Women in Higher Education in England: From Invisibility to Recognition
Dr. Breda Gray
1996
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Migration, life narratives, memory and subjectivity: Reflection on an archival project on Irish migration
Dr. Breda Gray
2019
London
Transnational Press
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Towards the Neo-institutionalisation of Irish State-Diaspora Relations
Dr. Breda Gray
2013
Basingstoke
Palgrave
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Catholic Church civil society activism and the neoliberal governmental project of migrant integration in Ireland
Dr. Breda Gray
2016
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(Dis)locating Irishness in the 1990s: The views of Irish women at home and abroad
Dr. Breda Gray
1997
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The making of nomadic work: Understanding the mediational role of ICTs
Dr. Breda Gray
2011
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Making migration a public issue: the network-making power' of the Irish Catholic Church
Dr. Breda Gray
2013
Manchester
Manchester University Press
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(Dis)locating woman and women in representations of Irish national identity
Dr. Breda Gray
1997
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Catholic Church civil society activism and the neoliberal governmental project of migrant integration in Ireland
Dr. Breda Gray
2013
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Researching Irish Diaspora. From Concept to Political Strategy
Dr. Breda Gray
2009
Oxford
Oxford University
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Social Aspects of Place Experience in Mobile Work/Life Practices
Dr. Breda Gray
2012
London
Springer
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Feminist politics and the governance of migrant integration through religious organizations
Dr. Breda Gray
2013
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Too close for comfort: Remembering the forgotten diaspora of Irish women in England
Dr. Breda Gray
2004
New York
Routledge
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Migrant integration and the 'network-making power' of the Irish Catholic Church
Dr. Breda Gray
2016
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The making of nomadic work: Understanding the mediating role of ICTS
Dr. Breda Gray
2011
Hershey PA
IGI Global
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Breaking the Silence: emigration, gender and the making of Irish cultural memory
Dr. Breda Gray
2007
Basingstoke
Palgrave
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The 1980s Irish emigrant and 'multicultural' London: From 'ethnicity' to 'diaspora'
Dr. Breda Gray
2000
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Edited Books
Peer Reviewed Journals
The Politics of Migration, Church, and State: A Case Study of the Catholic Church in Ireland
Dr. Breda Gray
2016
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A queer politics of emotion: reimagining sexualities and schooling
Dr. Breda Gray
Prof. Mary O'Sullivan
2016
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Breaking the Silence: Emigration, Gender and the Making of Irish Cultural Memory
Dr. Breda Gray
2007
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Post-Fordist Reconfigurations of Gender, Work and Life: Theory and Practice
Dr. Breda Gray
2017
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Mobility, Connectivity and Non-Resident Citizenship: Migrant Social Media Campaigns in the Irish Marriage Equality Referendum
Dr. Breda Gray
2019
LONDON
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
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"Generation Emigration": The Politics of (Trans)National Social Reproduction in 21st Century Ireland
Dr. Breda Gray
2013
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Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual teachers' negotiations of civil partnership and schools: ambivalent attachments to religion and secularism
Dr. Breda Gray
Prof. Mary O'Sullivan
2017
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Migrant chaplains: mediators of Catholic Church transnationalism or guests in nationally shaped religious fields?
Dr. Breda Gray
2011
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Leaving Dublin: Photographic Portrayals of Post-Celtic Tiger Emigration A Sociological Analysis
Dr. Breda Gray
2019
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Migration, Life Narratives, memory and subjectivity: Reflections on an archival project on Irish migration
Dr. Breda Gray
2009
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Emigrant-Citizen Social Media Campaigns Reproducing and/or Recasting State and Corporate Biopolitical Projects
Dr. Breda Gray
2019
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"Curious hybridities": Transnational negotiations of migrancy through generation'
Dr. Breda Gray
2006
Routledge London
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Editor's introduction: what does it mean to say sociology is going transnatoinal?
Dr. Breda Gray
2011
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Beyind "Migration Studies": Locating human mobility in the context of social struggle and change
Dr. Breda Gray
2016
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'Contemporary Ireland and a Global "Irish Empire" of Memory and Imagination
Dr. Breda Gray
2000
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Mobility, Connectivity and Non-Resident Citizenship: Migrant Social Media Campaigns in the Irish Marriage Equality Referendum
Dr. Breda Gray
2018
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Redefining the Nation through Economic Growth and Migration: Changing Rationalities of Governance in the Republic of Ireland?
Dr. Breda Gray
2006
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Beyond 'Migration Studies': Locating human mobility in the context of social struggle and change
Dr. Breda Gray
2016
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Redefining the nation through economic growth and migration: changing rationalities of governance in the Republic of Ireland
Dr. Breda Gray
2006
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Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual teachers' negotiations of civil partnership and schools: ambivalent attachments to religion and secularism
Dr. Breda Gray
Dr. Aoife Neary
2018
ABINGDON
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Breaking the Silence - Questions of staying and going in 1950s Ireland
Dr. Breda Gray
2002
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Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual teachers' negotiations of civil partnership and schools: ambivalent attachments to religion and secularism
Dr. Breda Gray
2018
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Remembering a 'multicultural' future through a history of emigration: Towards a feminist politics of solidarity across difference.
Dr. Breda Gray
2004
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Migrant Integration Policy: A Nationalist Fantasy of Management and Control?
Dr. Breda Gray
2006
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Leaving Dublin': Photographic portrayals of post-Celtic Tiger emigration a sociological analysis
Dr. Breda Gray
2018
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Migrant integration and the 'network-making power' of the Irish Catholic Church
Dr. Breda Gray
2013
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Social welfare versus transnational social protection regimes: the changing roles of church and state
Dr. Breda Gray
2020
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Migrant chaplains: Mediators of catholic church transnationalism or guests in nationally shaped religious fields?
Dr. Breda Gray
2011
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Post-Fordist reconfigurations of gender, work and life: theory and practice
Dr. Breda Gray
2017
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Other Journals
Conference Publications
Fifth IMISCOE (International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion European Network) Annual Conference
Dr. Breda Gray
2008
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Joint Conference of the American Conference for Irish Studies, the British Association of Irish Studies and the European Association for Irish Studies
Dr. Breda Gray
2004
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Conference on Social Movements in Transition: Moving Towards the Millennium?
Dr. Breda Gray
1994
Academic Unit of Surgery, St Jame's University Hospital, Leeds, UK.
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Second Global Conference, Multiculturalism Conflict and Belonging, Oxford University,
Dr. Breda Gray
2008
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ACUME, European Network Conference on Cultural Memory in Peripheral European Countries
Dr. Breda Gray
2004
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From Research to Practice in the Design of Cooperative Systems: Results and Open Challenges - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, COOP 2012
Dr. Breda Gray
2012
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`After the Celtic Tiger¿, Irish Social Sciences Platform (ISSP) Conference,
Dr. Breda Gray
2008
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'Unmarried Mothers' in Twentieth-Century Ireland: Cultural Reflections
Dr. Breda Gray
2004
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CSCW'17: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2017 ACM CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK AND SOCIAL COMPUTING
Dr. Breda Gray
2017
NEW YORK
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY
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Public Debate: Immigration in Ireland: Impact, Challenges, Experiences
Dr. Breda Gray
2007
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Sexing the Nation
Dr. Breda Gray
2012
School of Graduate Entry Medicine and Health, University of Nottingham, Derby, United Kingdom. john.
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International Sociological Association Conference: From emigration to immigration countries in Europe: new patterns
Dr. Breda Gray
2005
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New Foundations: School Ethos' and LGBT Sexualities
Dr. Breda Gray
Prof. Mary O'Sullivan
2013
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Irish Spaces. Homeland, Asylum, Empire, Diaspora: 13th Irish Australian Studies Conference
Dr. Breda Gray
2004
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Open Seminar Series, MPhil Race and Ethnic Studies
Dr. Breda Gray
2001
School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, UK.
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Locality, Identity, Diaspora Conference, Institute of Social/Cultural Anthropology
Dr. Breda Gray
2005
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Women's Studies Network (UK) Annual Conference
Dr. Breda Gray
2002
Division of Surgery, The University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
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Diasporas Exploring Critical Issues, University of Oxford, 5-7 July, 2008
Dr. Breda Gray
2008
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International Sociological Association Conference: Racisms, Sexisms and Contemporary Politics of Belonging
Dr. Breda Gray
2004
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British Association of Irish Studies Conference, Researching the Irish diaspora
Dr. Breda Gray
2001
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Conference Contributions
Ireland Through a Social Sciences Lens One day conference celebrating four years of the Irish Social Sciences Platform
Dr. Breda Gray
2011
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City of Graz Conference on Interreligious Dialogue, Museum of Modern Art, Graz Austria, 17-20 July, 2013
Dr. Breda Gray
2015
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Irish Australian Studies: Irish Spaces: Homeland, Asylum, Empire, Diaspora
Dr. Breda Gray
2004
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Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions (ISASR) Emerging Perspectives: Religion and Ireland
Dr. Breda Gray
2012
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Irish Episcopal Commission for Emigrants Conference 'From Pastoral Care to Public Policy - Journeying with the Migrant'
Dr. Breda Gray
2007
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AHRC Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme and CRONEM, University of Surrey Diasporas, Migration and Identities: Crossing Boundaries, New Directions
Dr. Breda Gray
2009
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Sibeal Speaks: A Postgraduate Conference on New Directions in Feminist, Sexuality and Gender Research
Dr. Breda Gray
2007
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European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies Conference
Dr. Breda Gray
2015
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International Symposium on Feminist Transitions: Social, Cultural and Global
Dr. Breda Gray
2003
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"Unmarried Mothers" in Twentieth-century Ireland: Cultural Reflections
Dr. Breda Gray
2004
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International Workshop: Methods of Researching Globalization and Development'
Dr. Breda Gray
2015
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10th Limerick Conference in Irish-German Studies. Emigration, Exile, Immigration, Re-Migration
Dr. Breda Gray
2008
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Symposium on the Health and Risk Behaviour of the Irish at Home and Away
Dr. Breda Gray
2004
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International Sociological Association Conference: Racisms, Sexisms and Contemporary Politics of Belonging
Dr. Breda Gray
2004
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British Sociological Association Work Employment and Society Conference
Dr. Breda Gray
2010
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Fifth IMISCOE Annual Conference (International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesian European Network)
Dr. Breda Gray
2008
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European Science Foundation Research Conference. Religion, Gender and Human Rights: Challenges for Multicultural and Democratic Societies
Dr. Breda Gray
2011
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British Sociological Association Sociology of Religion Annual Conference
Dr. Breda Gray
2016
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British Association of Irish Studies Conference, Researching the Irish Diaspora
Dr. Breda Gray
2001
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Joint Conference of the American Conference for Irish Studies, British Association for Irish Studies and European Association for Irish Studies
Dr. Breda Gray
2004
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Irish Social Science Platform Annual Conference, The Social Sciences in an Age of Uncertainty
Dr. Breda Gray
2010
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International Sociological Association Conference: From Emigration to Immigration Countries in Europe
Dr. Breda Gray
2005
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31st Conference of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion
Dr. Breda Gray
2011
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ACUME European Network Conference: Cultural Memory in Peripheral European Countries
Dr. Breda Gray
2004
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Global Migration and Multiculturalism: Religion, Society, Policy and Politics
Dr. Breda Gray
2011
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Sibeal Annual Conference. Feminist Scholarship, Activism and Creativity
Dr. Breda Gray
2011
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Published Reports
Editorials
Editor’s introduction: What does it mean to say sociology is going transnational?
Dr. Breda Gray
2011
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Book Reviews
Racism in the Irish experience
Dr. Breda Gray
2005
Abingdon
Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Gender, identity and the, Irish press 1922-1937: Embodying the nation
Dr. Breda Gray
2003
Oxford
Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd
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The Jesuits and globalization: historical legacies and contemporary challenges
Dr. Breda Gray
2017
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Ronit Lentin and Elena Moreo (ed) Migrant Activism and Integration from Below in Ireland, (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, Hants.)
Dr. Breda Gray
2012
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Other Publications
Book Review: Negotiating Identity Rhetoric, Metaphor, and Social Drama in Northern Ireland. Anthony D. Buckley and Mary Catherine Kenny (1995)
Dr. Breda Gray
1998
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Book Review: Women, Ethnicity and Nationalism: The Politics of Transition, Rick Wilford and Robert Miller (eds).
Dr. Breda Gray
1998
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‘Leaving Dublin’: Photographic portrayals of post-Celtic Tiger emigration – a sociological analysis
Dr. Breda Gray
2018
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New Foundations: School Ethos and LBGT Sexualities Summary Report
Dr. Breda Gray
Prof. Mary O'Sullivan
2013
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Book Review: British Policy and the Refugees 1933-1941, Yvonne Kapp and Margaret Mynatt.
Dr. Breda Gray
1997
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Book Review: Being National, Geoff Eley and Ronald Grigor Suny (eds.).
Dr. Breda Gray
2000
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The Jesuits and globalization: historical legacies and contemporary challenges
Dr. Breda Gray
2017
ABINGDON
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
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Ronit Lentin and Elena Moreo (ed) Migrant Activism and Integration from Below in Ireland, (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, Hants.)
Dr. Breda Gray
2012
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Book Review: The men who built Britain. A history of the Irish navy, Ultan Cowley.
Dr. Breda Gray
2001
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Book Review: Women, States, and Nationalism. At home in the nation?, Sita Ranchod-Nilsson and Mary Ann Tétreault (eds).
Dr. Breda Gray
2000
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Racism in the Irish experience
Dr. Breda Gray
2005
Abingdon
Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Memories of 1950s emigration and the contemporary politics of immigration in Ireland
Dr. Breda Gray
2000
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Book Review: Contesting Politics. Women in Ireland, north and south, Yvonne Galligan, Eilis Ward and Rich Wilford (Eds).
Dr. Breda Gray
2000
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Gender, identity and the, Irish press 1922-1937: Embodying the nation
Dr. Breda Gray
2003
Oxford
Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd
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Book Review: Outsiders Inside. Whiteness, Place and Irish Women, Bronwen Walter
Dr. Breda Gray
2001
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Social support structures for migrants Rapporteur's Report'
Dr. Breda Gray
2005
Dublin
Office for Social Inclusion
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Book Review: The Politics of Identity: A Loyalist Community in Belfast, James McAuley.
Dr. Breda Gray
1994
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Mobility, Connectivity and Non-Resident Citizenship: Migrant Social Media Campaigns in the Irish Marriage Equality Referendum
Dr. Breda Gray
2018
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Editor’s introduction: What does it mean to say sociology is going transnational?
Dr. Breda Gray
2011
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Book Review: Crossfires: Nationalism Racism and Gender in Europe, Helma Lutz, Ann Phoenix and Nira Yuval-Davis (eds.)
Dr. Breda Gray
1997
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Book Review: A Distant Shore. Irish Migration and New Zealand Settlement, Lyndon Fraser (ed).
Dr. Breda Gray
2001
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