Dr. Ciara Breathnach

Biography

Ciara Breathnach is Associate Professor in History at the University of Limerick. She has managed over 2 million Euro in competitive funding and has held nine visiting international fellowships. Breathnach is currently Visiting Professor at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge and held a Fulbright Scholar Award in 2022 at New York University AY2022/23.

She has published widely on Irish socio-economic, gender, cultural and health history. Her current monograph is Ordinary lives, death and social class: Dublin City Coroner's Court, 1876-1902 (Oxford University Press, 2022). It won the American Conference of Irish Studies, James S. Donnelly Sr. Prize for Books on History and Social Sciences in June 2023.

She is co-editor a forthcoming volume:

Ciara Breathnach and Ian Walsh (eds.), Inquest Reports of Dr Joseph E. Kenny, Dublin City Coroner, 1900 (Irish Manuscripts Commission, Dublin, in press).

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 eight volumes/proceedings. Apart from chapters in edited volumes, she has published articles in high-ranking journals such as, Urban History, Annales de démographie historique, Medical History, The History Teacher, 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, 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 is currently a member of the Irish Manuscripts Commission, she is a former member of the National Archives Advisory Council (2017-2022), 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 was an Irish Research Council Laureate Awards 2017/32 recipient for a project entitled Death and Burial Data: Ireland 1864-1922 (2018-2023).

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 is Ordinary lives, death and social class: Dublin City Coroner's Court, 1876-1902 (Oxford University Press, 2022).

She has held the following Awards and Fellowships:
2022 Fulbright Scholar, New York University.
2021 Irish Research Council, Research Ally Award.
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.

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 Fellow
2012 - Visiting Faculty
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

Peer Reviewed Journals

2022

doi:10.1017/mdh.2021.41

Breathnach, Ciara (2022) doi:10.1017/mdh.2021.41. Cambridge Medical History :3-23

Biography

Research Interests

Professional Activities

Award

Committee

Association

Education

Language

Publications

Peer Reviewed Journals

doi:10.1017/mdh.2021.41

Sexual assault and fatal violence against women during the Irish War of Independence, 1919-1921: Kate Maher's murder in context

Homosexuality and Lesbianism in Irish newspapers, 1861-1922

Immigrant Irishwomen and maternity services in New York and Boston, 1860-1911

Gender, medicine and the state in Ireland, 1852-1922

Introduction

Rural youth, seasonal labor and family income: Ireland 1890-1935

Census: on paper, by governments, is still best

Capital Punishment in Irish Prisons, 1868-1901

Capital Punishment in Irish Prisons, 18681901

Maternal Mortality, Dublin, 1864-1902

The Triumph of Proximity: The Impact of District Nursing Schemes in 1890s&apos; Rural Ireland

Evolving as Necessity Dictates: Home and Public Health in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Evolving as Necessity Dictates: Home and Public Health in the 19th and 20th Centuries

The Triumph of Proximity: The Impact of District Nursing Schemes in 1890s' Rural Ireland

Infant life Protection and Medico-Legal Literacy in Early Twentieth-century Dublin

Infant life protection and medico-legal literacy in early twentieth-century Dublin

Review of Lisa Marie Griffith and Ciarán Wallace (eds), Grave Matters: Death and Dying in Dublin 1500 to the Present

Maternal mortality, Dublin 1864-1905' Social History of Medicine

A tale of two cities - infant mortality and cause of infant death, Dublin, 1864-1910

Professional patienthood and mortality: Sean O Riordain's diaries 1974-1977

Handywomen and Birthing in Rural Ireland, 18511955.

Handywomen and Birthing in Rural Ireland, 1851-1955

Perspectives on patienthood, practitioners and pedagogy

'INDELIBLE CHARACTERS' TATTOOS, POWER AND THE LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRISH CONVICT BODY

'Heavier the interval than the consummation': bronchial disease in Sean O Riordain's diaries

Medical Officers, Bodies, Gender and Weight

Review of, Sarah Anne Buckley, The Cruelty Man

Scripting blame: Irish coroners' courts and unnamed infant dead, 1916-32

Ciara Breathnach, Review of She said she was in the family way': pregnancy and infancy in modern Ireland, Elaine Farrell (ed).

Irish Catholic identity in 1870s Dunedin, New Zealand

Medicalizing the female reproductive cycle in rural Ireland, 1926-56

Introduction: Power, the State and institutions in Ireland,

Registered 'Unknown' infant fatalities in Ireland, 1916-32: gender and power

Even 'Wilder Workhouse Girls': The Problem of Institutionalisation among Irish Immigrants to New Zealand 1874

An exploration of testamentary behaviour in twentieth-century Ireland

Introduction: Ireland church, state and society 1900-1975

The Role of Women in the Economy of the West of Ireland, 1891-1923

Books

Ordinary lives, death and social class: Dublin City Coroner's Court, 1876-1902

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

Book Chapters

Towards Model Checking Product Lines in the Digital Humanities: An Application to Historical Data

Crime and Punishment: Whiteboyism and the Law in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland

 it would be preposterous to bring a Protestant here': religion, provincial politics and district nurses in Ireland, 1890-1904',

Medical Humanities: new frontier or back to the past?

Obituaries in provincial Irish newspapers, 1830-1900'

Lady Dudley’s district nursing scheme and the congested districts board, 1903-1923

The Congested Districts Board and Public Health'

Recruiting Irish migrants for life in New Zealand, 1870-1875

Smallholder housing and public Health, 1892-1915

introduction

Historical sources pertaining to Travellers, 1824-1925

Edited Books

Gender History: Ireland 1850-1922

Other Journals

Archival transcriptions, practice-based learning and research data in undergraduate medical history

Capital Punishment in Irish Prisons, 18681901

Conference Publications

Proceedings - 2022 IEEE 46th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2022

2021 IEEE 45TH ANNUAL COMPUTERS, SOFTWARE, AND APPLICATIONS CONFERENCE (COMPSAC 2021)

2020 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIG DATA (BIG DATA)

Irish Historical Studies

Irish Historical Studies

Civic Cultures Workshop, Centre for Historical Research, UL

Women¿s History and the Everyday. Annual Women¿s History Association of Ireland Conference

Tone to Gonne: Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland

War and Peace: North East Irish Conference Network conference

From Voluntary organisation to NGO

Empires of Religion Conference

Capital Punishment in Irish Prisons, 18681901

The Triumph of Proximity: The Impact of District Nursing Schemes in 1890s' Rural Ireland

Handywomen and Birthing in Rural Ireland, 18511955.

Ciara Breathnach, Review of She said she was in the family way': pregnancy and infancy in modern Ireland, Elaine Farrell (ed).

it would be preposterous to bring a Protestant here': religion, provincial politics and district nurses in Ireland, 1890-1904',

Obituaries in provincial Irish newspapers, 1830-1900'

The Congested Districts Board and Public Health'

Capital Punishment in Irish Prisons, 18681901