Biography

Bronagh Ann McShane, FRHistS, is a historian specialising in the history of women, religion and gender. She completed her PhD (Irish Research Council-funded) at Maynooth University and previously held a National University of Ireland Research Fellowship at the University of Galway. She is author of Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530-1700: Suppression, Migration and Reintegration (Woodbridge, 2022) and has published articles in leading peer-reviewed journals including British Catholic History, Archivium Hibernicum and the Journal of Historical Network Research. She is joint guest editor of 'A New Agenda for Women's and Gender History in Ireland', Irish Historical Studies Special Issue (Nov. 2022); co-editor of Brides of Christ: Women and Monasticism in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland (Dublin, 2023) and contributor to the forthcoming Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism (expected 2024).

Research Interests

Women, religion, gender
Gender History
Early Modern History
Digital Religion
Women's Religious Orders

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2023

Who were the nuns in early modern Ireland?

Bronagh Ann McShane (2023) Who were the nuns in early modern Ireland?. Dublin : Four Courts Press Brides of Christ: Women and Monasticism in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland

2023

Introduction

Bronagh Ann McShane and Tracy Collins (2023) Introduction. Dublin : Four Courts Press Brides of Christ: Women and Monasticism in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland

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