Dr. Ciara Breathnach

Biography

Ciara Breathnach is Associate Professor in History at the University of Limerick and an Irish Research Council Laureate Awardee. She has published widely on Irish socio-economic, gender, cultural and health history. Her current monograph Ordinary lives, death and social class: Dublin City Coroner's Court, 1876-1902 is under contract and forthcoming with Oxford University Press. She is co-editor of two forthcoming volumes:
1. Jyoti Atwal, Ciara Breathnach and Sarah-Anne Buckley (eds.), Gender History: Ireland 1850-1922 (in preparation and under contract with Routledge India, due 2021). Open access funded by Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Decade of Centenary strand.
2. Ciara Breathnach and Ian Walsh (eds.), Inquest Reports of Dr Joseph E. Kenny, Dublin City Coroner, 1900 (in preparation and under contract with Irish Manuscripts Commission, Dublin, due 2022).

She is author of The Congested Districts Board of Ireland, 1891-1923, poverty and development in the West of Ireland (Dublin, 2005) and editor/co-editor of seven conference proceedings. Apart from chapters in edited volumes, she has published articles in Health and History, Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Nursing History Review, Social History of Medicine, Gender & History, Urban History, Medical Humanities, Cultural and Social History, Medical History, Social History, Irish Historical Studies, Immigrants and Minorities, History of Family: an International Quarterly, the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Historical Research: the Bulletin of the Institute for Historical Research and New Hibernia Review.

She sits on the National Archives Advisory Council and the Irish Manuscripts Commission, she is a former member of the Board of the National Library of Ireland (2015-2020) and the Heritage Council (2012-2016). Breathnach has held several research awards as Principal or Co-Investigator and is currently an Irish Research Council Laureate Awards 2017/2018 recipient for a project entitled Death and Burial Data: Ireland 1864-1922 (2018-2022).

Research Interests

Dr Ciara Breathnach is Associate Professor in History at the University of Limerick. She has published widely on Irish socio-economic, gender, cultural and health history. Her current monograph Ordinary lives, death and social class: Dublin City Coroner's Court, 1876-1902 is under contract and forthcoming with Oxford University Press.

She has held the following Awards and Fellowships:
2019 Excellence in Teaching Award, Centre for Teaching and Learning, UL, Faculty of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences winner.
2019 Visiting Research Leaders Fellowship, University of Wollongong
2017 Visiting Fellowship, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
2016 CRF/RSE European Visiting Research Fellowships, Royal Society of Edinburgh, with Prof Oonagh Walsh at Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland, UK.
2013-2014 Foundation for Women in Medicine Fellow, Center for the History of Medicine, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
2013-2014 Faculty Fellow, Faculty of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Limerick.
2012-2013 Visiting Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, London.
2012 (September) Visiting Faculty, New York University.
2012-2013 Flaherty Visiting Fellow, University of Massachusetts, Boston.

She is a Research Associate at the Centre for Contemporary History, Trinity College Dublin (2012-), Member of the Association of Medical Humanities Council, External Examiner, Ulster University, BA & MRes progammes in History, Associate Editor of Medical Humanities (BMJ, 2016-2018). With Dr Laurence M. Geary she was co-Editor of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland series with Liverpool University Press (2015-2020).

Professional Activities

Award

2014 - Harvard University, Foundation for Women in Medicine Fellow, Center for the History of Medicine,
2013 - Flaherty Visiting Fellow
2013 - IRC, Main Principal Investigator
2012 - Visiting Faculty
2012 - Visiting Fellow
2010 - Principal Investigator
2005 - Royal Irish Academy, British- Irish Exchange scheme
2004 - Royal Irish Academy, British- Irish Exchange Scheme

Committee

2012 Heritage Council of Ireland,
2007 Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland,
2005 Committee member of the National Library of Ireland on Genealogy and Heraldry.,

Association

2010 President, Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland
2007 Secretary, Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland

Education

2003 UCC - PhD

Language

Gaeilge

Publications

Book

2005

The Congested Districts Board of Ireland, 1891-1923: poverty and development in the west,
Breathnach, C

Book Chapter

2019

Towards Model Checking Product Lines in the Digital Humanities: An Application to Historical Data
Breathnach C.;Ibrahim N.;Clancy S.;Margaria T.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-30985-5_20

2017

Crime and Punishment: Whiteboyism and the Law in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Ciara Breathnach and Laurence M. Geary
Crime in C19th Ireland

2015

it would be preposterous to bring a Protestant here': religion, provincial politics and district nurses in Ireland, 1890-1904',
Breathnach, Ciara
Healthcare in Ireland and Britain 1850-1970: voluntary, regional and comparative perspective

2014

Medical Humanities: new frontier or back to the past?
Breathnach, C. and Walsh O.,
Restating the Value of the Humanities

2013

Obituaries in provincial Irish newspapers, 1830-1900'
Breathnach, C, Butler, D
James Kelly and Marian Lyons (eds), Death and Dying in Ireland, Britain, and Europe: Historical Perspectives (Irish Academic Press, Dublin and Portland, 2013)

2012

Lady Dudley’s district nursing scheme and the congested districts board, 1903-1923
Breathnach C.
Gender and Medicine in Ireland 1700-1950

2012

The Congested Districts Board and Public Health'
Breathnach, Ciara
Gender and Medicine in Ireland, 1700-1951

2008

Recruiting Irish migrants for life in New Zealand, 1870-1875
Breathnach, C
Ireland, Australia and New Zealand: history, politics and culture

2007

introduction
Breathnach, C
Framing the West, images of rural Ireland, 1891-1920

2007

Smallholder housing and public Health, 1892-1915
Breathnach, C
Framing the West: images of rural Ireland 1891-1920

2006

Historical sources pertaining to Travellers, 1824-1925
Breathnach, C
Portraying Irish Travellers, histories and representations