Ciara Breathnach


 
researcher

Biography

Ciara Breathnach is Associate Professor in History at the University of Limerick and an Irish Research Council Laureate Awardee (2017/32). She recently won a Fulbright Scholar Award in 2022 to undertake research on death and the Irish immigrant community in New York City 1880-1922. 

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 is co-editor of two forthcoming volumes:
1. Jyoti Atwal, Ciara Breathnach and Sarah-Anne Buckley (eds.), Gender History: Ireland 1850-1922 (Routledge India, August 2022). 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 (Irish Manuscripts Commission, Dublin, forthcoming).

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 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, 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 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.
    
 

Books

  Year Publication
2022 Ordinary lives, death and social class: Dublin City Coroner’s Court, 1876-1902.
Ciara Breathnach (2022) Ordinary lives, death and social class: Dublin City Coroner’s Court, 1876-1902. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Details]
2005 The Congested Districts Board of Ireland, 1891-1923: poverty and development in the west.
Breathnach, C (2005) The Congested Districts Board of Ireland, 1891-1923: poverty and development in the west. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details]

Peer Reviewed Journals

  Year Publication
2022 'Homosexuality and Lesbianism in Irish newspapers, 1861-1922'
Lawless C.;Breathnach C. (2022) 'Homosexuality and Lesbianism in Irish newspapers, 1861-1922'. Gender And History: Ireland, 1852-1922, :179-190 [DOI] [Details]
2022 'Immigrant Irishwomen and maternity services in New York and Boston, 1860-1911'
Breathnach C. (2022) 'Immigrant Irishwomen and maternity services in New York and Boston, 1860-1911'. Medical history, 66 (1):3-23 [DOI] [Details]
2022 'Gender, medicine and the state in Ireland, 1852-1922'
Breathnach C. (2022) 'Gender, medicine and the state in Ireland, 1852-1922'. Gender And History: Ireland, 1852-1922, :77-89 [DOI] [Details]
2022 'Introduction'
Breathnach C.;Buckley S.A. (2022) 'Introduction'. Gender And History: Ireland, 1852-1922, :1-7 [DOI] [Details]
2022 'doi:10.1017/mdh.2021.41'
Breathnach, Ciara (2022) 'doi:10.1017/mdh.2021.41'. Medical History, 66 (1):3-23 [DOI] [Details]
2022 'Sexual assault and fatal violence against women during the Irish War of Independence, 1919-1921: Kate Maher's murder in context'
Breathnach, C;O'Halpin, E (2022) 'Sexual assault and fatal violence against women during the Irish War of Independence, 1919-1921: Kate Maher's murder in context'. Bmj Medical Humanitiesbmj Medical Humanities, 48 :94-103 [DOI] [Details]
2018 'Evolving as Necessity Dictates: Home and Public Health in the 19th and 20th Centuries'
Apple, RD;Breathnach, C;Bryder, L;Greenlees, J (2018) 'Evolving as Necessity Dictates: Home and Public Health in the 19th and 20th Centuries'. Nursing History Review, 26 :48-54 [DOI] [Details]
2018 'The Triumph of Proximity: The Impact of District Nursing Schemes in 1890s' Rural Ireland'
Breathnach, C (2018) 'The Triumph of Proximity: The Impact of District Nursing Schemes in 1890s' Rural Ireland'. Nursing History Review, 26 :68-82 [DOI] [Details]
2020 'Capital Punishment in Irish Prisons, 1868–1901'
Ciara Breathnach (2020) 'Capital Punishment in Irish Prisons, 1868–1901'. Health and History, 20 (1):104-125 [DOI] [Details]
2020 'Rural youth, seasonal labor and family income: Ireland 1890-1935'
Ciara Breathnach and Sarah-Anne Buckley (2020) 'Rural youth, seasonal labor and family income: Ireland 1890-1935'. Journal of the history of Childhood and Youth, 13 (1):103-121 [DOI] [Details]
2020 'Census: on paper, by governments, is still best'
Breathnach C.;Margaria T. (2020) 'Census: on paper, by governments, is still best'. Nature, 577 (7789) [DOI] [Details]
2018 'Evolving as Necessity Dictates: Home and Public Health in the 19th and 20th Centuries'
Apple, RD,Breathnach, C,Bryder, L,Greenlees, J (2018) 'Evolving as Necessity Dictates: Home and Public Health in the 19th and 20th Centuries'. Nursing History Review, 26 :48-54 [DOI] [Details]
2018 'The Triumph of Proximity: The Impact of District Nursing Schemes in 1890s' Rural Ireland'
Breathnach, C (2018) 'The Triumph of Proximity: The Impact of District Nursing Schemes in 1890s' Rural Ireland'. Nursing History Review, 26 :68-82 [DOI] [ULIR Link] [Details]
2018 'Maternal Mortality, Dublin, 1864-1902'
Breathnach, C,Gurrin, B (2018) 'Maternal Mortality, Dublin, 1864-1902'. Social History Of Medicine, 31 :79-105 [DOI] [Details]
2017 'A tale of two cities - infant mortality and cause of infant death, Dublin, 1864-1910'
Breathnach, C,Gurrin, B (2017) 'A tale of two cities - infant mortality and cause of infant death, Dublin, 1864-1910'. Urban History, 44 :647-677 [DOI] [Details]
2017 'Infant life Protection and Medico-Legal Literacy in Early Twentieth-century Dublin'
Breathnach, C (2017) 'Infant life Protection and Medico-Legal Literacy in Early Twentieth-century Dublin'. Womens History Review, 26 :781-798 [DOI] [Details]
2017 'Review of Lisa Marie Griffith and Ciarán Wallace (eds), Grave Matters: Death and Dying in Dublin 1500 to the Present'
Ciara Breathnach (2017) 'Review of Lisa Marie Griffith and Ciarán Wallace (eds), Grave Matters: Death and Dying in Dublin 1500 to the Present'. Social History Of Medicine, 30 (3):701-711 [DOI] [Details]
2017 'Maternal mortality, Dublin 1864-1905’ Social History of Medicine'
Ciara Breathnach and Brian Gurrin (2017) 'Maternal mortality, Dublin 1864-1905’ Social History of Medicine'. Social History Of Medicine, :1-27 [DOI] [Details]
2017 'Infant life protection and medico-legal literacy in early twentieth-century Dublin'
Ciara Breathnach (2017) 'Infant life protection and medico-legal literacy in early twentieth-century Dublin'. Womens History Review, :1-18 [DOI] [Details]
2016 'Handywomen and Birthing in Rural Ireland, 1851–1955'
Breathnach, C (2016) 'Handywomen and Birthing in Rural Ireland, 1851–1955'. Gender & History, 28 (1):34-56 [DOI] [Details]
2016 'Handywomen and Birthing in Rural Ireland, 1851-1955'
Breathnach, C (2016) 'Handywomen and Birthing in Rural Ireland, 1851-1955'. Gender And History, 28 [DOI] [Details]
2016 'Professional patienthood and mortality: Sean O Riordain's diaries 1974-1977'
Breathnach, C (2016) 'Professional patienthood and mortality: Sean O Riordain's diaries 1974-1977'. Medical Humanities, 42 :92-96 [DOI] [Details]
2016 'Perspectives on patienthood, practitioners and pedagogy'
Ciara Breathnach and Brendan Kelly (2016) 'Perspectives on patienthood, practitioners and pedagogy'. Medical Humanities, 42 :73-75 [DOI] [Details]
2015 ''INDELIBLE CHARACTERS' TATTOOS, POWER AND THE LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRISH CONVICT BODY'
Breathnach, C,Farrell, E (2015) ''INDELIBLE CHARACTERS' TATTOOS, POWER AND THE LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRISH CONVICT BODY'. Cultural & Social History, 12 :235-254 [DOI] [Details]
2014 'Medical Officers, Bodies, Gender and Weight'
Breathnach, Ciara (2014) 'Medical Officers, Bodies, Gender and Weight'. Medical history, [DOI] [Details]
2014 ''Heavier the interval than the consummation': bronchial disease in Sean O Riordain's diaries'
Breathnach, C (2014) ''Heavier the interval than the consummation': bronchial disease in Sean O Riordain's diaries'. Medical Humanities, 40 :11-16 [DOI] [Details]
2014 'Scripting blame: Irish coroners' courts and unnamed infant dead, 1916-32'
Breathnach, C,O'Halpin, E (2014) 'Scripting blame: Irish coroners' courts and unnamed infant dead, 1916-32'. Social History, 39 :210-228 [DOI] [Details]
2014 'Review of, Sarah Anne Buckley, The Cruelty Man'
Breathnach, Ciara (2014) 'Review of, Sarah Anne Buckley, The Cruelty Man'. Irish Historical Studies, [Details]
2013 'Ciara Breathnach, Review of ‘She said she was in the family way’: pregnancy and infancy in modern Ireland, Elaine Farrell (ed)'
Breathnach, C (2013) 'Ciara Breathnach, Review of ‘She said she was in the family way’: pregnancy and infancy in modern Ireland, Elaine Farrell (ed)'. Irish Historical Studies, [Details]
2013 'Irish Catholic identity in 1870s Dunedin, New Zealand'
Breathnach C (2013) 'Irish Catholic identity in 1870s Dunedin, New Zealand'. Immigrants and Minorities, 31 (1):1-26 [DOI] [Details]
2012 'Introduction: Power, the State and institutions in Ireland'
Breathnach, C, Chambers L. and McElligott, A (2012) 'Introduction: Power, the State and institutions in Ireland'. Irish Historical Studies, 38 (149):1-5 [Details]
2012 'Medicalizing the female reproductive cycle in rural Ireland, 1926-56'
Breathnach, C (2012) 'Medicalizing the female reproductive cycle in rural Ireland, 1926-56'. Historical Research, 85 :674-690 [DOI] [Details]
2012 'Registered 'Unknown' infant fatalities in Ireland, 1916-32: gender and power'
Breathnach, Ciara: O'Halpin Eunan (2012) 'Registered 'Unknown' infant fatalities in Ireland, 1916-32: gender and power'. Irish Historical Studies, xxxviii :70-89 [Details]
2011 'Even 'Wilder Workhouse Girls': The Problem of Institutionalisation among Irish Immigrants to New Zealand 1874'
Breathnach, C (2011) 'Even 'Wilder Workhouse Girls': The Problem of Institutionalisation among Irish Immigrants to New Zealand 1874'. Journal Of Imperial And Commonwealth History, 39 :771-794 [DOI] [Details]
2009 'An exploration of testamentary behaviour in twentieth-century Ireland'
Breathnach, C (2009) 'An exploration of testamentary behaviour in twentieth-century Ireland'. HISTORY OF THE FAMILY, 14 (3):309-322 [DOI] [Details]
2008 'Introduction: Ireland church, state and society 1900-1975'
Breathnach, C (2008) 'Introduction: Ireland church, state and society 1900-1975'. History Of The Family, 13 (4):333-339 [DOI] [Details]
2004 'The Role of Women in the Economy of the West of Ireland, 1891-1923'
Breathnach, Ciara (2004) 'The Role of Women in the Economy of the West of Ireland, 1891-1923'. New Hibernia Review, [Details]

Other Journals

  Year Publication
2021 'Archival transcriptions, practice-based learning and research data in undergraduate medical history'
Ciara Breathnach, Kirsten Mulrennan and Sineád Keogh (2021) 'Archival transcriptions, practice-based learning and research data in undergraduate medical history' The History Teacher, 53 :1-34. [Details]
2020 'Capital Punishment in Irish Prisons, 1868–1901'
Ciara Breathnach (2020) 'Capital Punishment in Irish Prisons, 1868–1901' Health and History, 22 (1) :104-125. [DOI] [Details]

Edited Books

  Year Publication
2022 Gender History: Ireland 1850-1922
Jyoti Atwal, Ciara Breathnach and Sarah-Anne Buckley (Ed.). (2022) Gender History: Ireland 1850-1922 India: Routledge. [DOI] [Details]
2012
Breathnach, Ciara; Chambers, Liam; McElligott, Anthony (Ed.). (2012) Power, the State and Institutions in Ireland, Special Edition. Dublin: Irish Historical Studies. [Details]
2011
Breathnach, Ciara; Chambers Liam; McElligott, Anthony; Lawless, Catherine (Ed.). (2011) Power in history: from medieval Ireland to the post-modern world; Historical Studies XXVII. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. [Details]
2010
Breathnach, Ciara: Lawless, Catherine (Ed.). (2010) Visual, material and print culture in nineteenth-century Ireland. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details]
2008
Ciara Breathnach (Ed.). (2008) Ireland church, state and society 1900-1975. Elsevier. [Details]
2007
Ciara Breathnach (Ed.). (2007) Framing the West: images of rural Ireland 1891-1920. Dublin and Portland: Irish Academic Press. [Details]
2006
Breathnach, Ciara and Bhreatnach, Aoife (Ed.). (2006) Portraying Irish Travellers, histories and representations. UK: Cambridge Scholars Press. [Details]

Book Chapters

  Year Publication
2019 'Towards Model Checking Product Lines in the Digital Humanities: An Application to Historical Data'
Breathnach C.;Ibrahim N.;Clancy S.;Margaria T. (2019) 'Towards Model Checking Product Lines in the Digital Humanities: An Application to Historical Data' In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). New York: Springer. [DOI] [Details]
2017 'Crime and Punishment: Whiteboyism and the Law in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland'
Ciara Breathnach and Laurence M. Geary (2017) 'Crime and Punishment: Whiteboyism and the Law in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland' In: Don McRaild and Kyle Hughes (eds). Crime in C19th Ireland. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. [ULIR Link] [Details]
2012 'Lady Dudley¿s district nursing scheme and the congested districts board, 1903-1923'
Breathnach C. (2012) 'Lady Dudley¿s district nursing scheme and the congested districts board, 1903-1923' In: Gender and Medicine in Ireland 1700-1950. [ULIR Link] [Details]
2015 '‘… it would be preposterous to bring a Protestant here’: religion, provincial politics and district nurses in Ireland, 1890-1904’'
Breathnach, Ciara (2015) '‘… it would be preposterous to bring a Protestant here’: religion, provincial politics and district nurses in Ireland, 1890-1904’' In: Healthcare in Ireland and Britain 1850-1970: voluntary, regional and comparative perspective. London: Institute of Historical Research. [ULIR Link] [Details]
2014 'Medical Humanities: new frontier or back to the past?'
Breathnach, C. and Walsh O., (2014) 'Medical Humanities: new frontier or back to the past?' In: Restating the Value of the Humanities. Dublin: Humanities Serving Irish Society. [ULIR Link] [Details]
2013 '‘Obituaries in provincial Irish newspapers, 1830-1900’'
Breathnach, C, Butler, D (2013) '‘Obituaries in provincial Irish newspapers, 1830-1900’' In: James Kelly and Marian Lyons (eds), Death and Dying in Ireland, Britain, and Europe: Historical Perspectives (Irish Academic Press, Dublin and Portland, 2013). Dublin: Irish Academic Press. [ULIR Link] [Details]
2012 '‘The Congested Districts Board and Public Health’'
Breathnach, Ciara (2012) '‘The Congested Districts Board and Public Health’' In: Gender and Medicine in Ireland, 1700-1951. New York: Syracuse University Press. [Details]
2008 'Recruiting Irish migrants for life in New Zealand, 1870-1875'
Breathnach, C (2008) 'Recruiting Irish migrants for life in New Zealand, 1870-1875' In: Ireland, Australia and New Zealand: history, politics and culture. [Details]
2007 'Smallholder housing and public Health, 1892-1915'
Breathnach, C (2007) 'Smallholder housing and public Health, 1892-1915' In: Framing the West: images of rural Ireland 1891-1920. Dublin and Portland: Irish Academic Press. [Details]
2007 'introduction'
Breathnach, C (2007) 'introduction' In: Framing the West, images of rural Ireland, 1891-1920. Irish Academic Press. [Details]
2006 'Historical sources pertaining to Travellers, 1824-1925'
Breathnach, C (2006) 'Historical sources pertaining to Travellers, 1824-1925' In: Portraying Irish Travellers, histories and representations. [Details]

Conference Publications

  Year Publication
2022 Proceedings - 2022 IEEE 46th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2022
Schieweck A.;Murphy R.;Khan R.;Breathnach C.;Margaria T. (2022) Evolution of the Historian Data Entry Application: Supporting Transcribathons in the Digital Humanities through MDD Proceedings - 2022 IEEE 46th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2022 , pp.177-186 [DOI] [Details]
2020 2020 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIG DATA (BIG DATA)
O'Shea, E;Khan, R;Breathnach, C;Margaria, T (2020) Towards Automatic Data Cleansing and Classification of Valid Historical Data An Incremental Approach Based on MDD 2020 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIG DATA (BIG DATA) , pp.1914-1923 [DOI] [Details]
2021 2021 IEEE 45TH ANNUAL COMPUTERS, SOFTWARE, AND APPLICATIONS CONFERENCE (COMPSAC 2021)
Breathnach, C;Murphy, R;Margaria, T (2021) Transcribathons as Practice-Based Learning for Historians and Computer Scientists 2021 IEEE 45TH ANNUAL COMPUTERS, SOFTWARE, AND APPLICATIONS CONFERENCE (COMPSAC 2021) , pp.1131-1136 [DOI] [Details]
2012 Irish Historical Studies
Breathnach C.;Chambers L.;McElligott A. (2012) Introduction Irish Historical Studies , pp.1-4 [DOI] [Details]
2012 Irish Historical Studies
Breathnach C.;O'Halpin E. (2012) Registered 'unknown' infant fatalities in Ireland, 1916-32: Gender and power Irish Historical Studies , pp.70-88 [DOI] [Details]
1999 *
Breathnach, Ciara (1999) ¿Congested Districts Board and Regeneration¿ . In: * eds. * , 30-DEC-99 - 30-DEC-99 , pp.*-* [Details]
2003 International Federation for research in Women's History
Breathnach, Ciara (2003) ¿The CDB and the Changing Role of Irish Women in the Rural Economy 1891-1921¿ . In: * eds. International Federation for research in Women's History , 11-SEP-03 - 14-SEP-03 , pp.*-* [Details]
2003 Research Seminar in Contemporary Irish History
Breathnach, Ciara (2003) ¿The CDB in the New Ireland, 1891-1923¿ . In: * eds. Research Seminar in Contemporary Irish History , 26-NOV-03 - 30-DEC-99 , pp.*-* [Details]
2005 *
Breathnach, Ciara (2005) ¿Congested Districts Board and Regeneration¿ . In: * eds. * , 08-NOV-05 - 08-NOV-05 , pp.*-* [Details]
2005 14th Irish-Australian Conference
Breathnach, Ciara (2005) ¿Recruiting Irish migrants for life in New Zealand, 1870-1875¿ . In: L. Geary and A McCarthy (eds) eds. 14th Irish-Australian Conference , 22-JUN-05 - 24-JUN-05 , pp.*-* [Details]
2005 'Sisters are doing it for themselves¿: Women and Informal Port Economies
* (2005) ¿Photographic evidence of the role of women in the maritime economy in the West of Ireland 1890-1914¿ . In: * eds. 'Sisters are doing it for themselves¿: Women and Informal Port Economies , 24-JUN-05 - 25-JUN-05 , pp.*-* [Details]
2005 *
Breathnach, Ciara (2005) The CDB . In: * eds. * , 03-SEP-05 - 03-SEP-05 , pp.*-* [Details]
2006 Irish Economic and Social History Annual Conference
Breathnach, Ciara (2006) Public health, sanitation and housing conditions in the West of Ireland, 1891-1915 . In: * eds. Irish Economic and Social History Annual Conference , 17-NOV-06 - 18-NOV-06 , pp.*-* [Details]
2006 *
* (2006) The CDB . In: * eds. * , 03-SEP-06 - 03-SEP-06 , pp.*-* [Details]
2006 Empires of Religion Conference
Breathnach, Ciara (2006) The New Zealand Tablet: an Irish political mouthpiece in the Antipodes 1873-1880¿ . In: * eds. Empires of Religion Conference , 20-JUN-06 - 21-JUN-06 , pp.*-* [Details]
2006 From Voluntary organisation to NGO
Breathnach, Ciara (2006) ¿Lady Dudley¿s District nursing scheme and the CDB¿, From Voluntary action to NGO . In: * eds. From Voluntary organisation to NGO , 28-JUN-06 - 30-JUN-06 , pp.*-* [Details]
2006 Taking History into the Future History Teacher's Association of Ireland
Breathnach, Ciara (2006) Rural Women and Work in 20th century Ireland . In: * eds. Taking History into the Future History Teacher's Association of Ireland , 05-OCT-06 - 07-OCT-06 , pp.*-* [Details]
2007 Civic Cultures Workshop, Centre for Historical Research, UL
Breathnach, Ciara (2007) An antidote to rural poverty: the Congested Districts Board of Ireland (1891-1923) Civic Cultures Workshop, Centre for Historical Research, UL , 13-OCT-07 - 13-OCT-07 [Details]
2007 War and Peace: North East Irish Conference Network conference
Breathnach, Ciara (2007) `There¿ll be war there yet: intestacy and bequests 1904-1984¿ War and Peace: North East Irish Conference Network conference , 09-NOV-07 - 11-NOV-07 [Details]
2007 Tone to Gonne: Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Breathnach, Ciara (2007) `Readings from the letters of James Hack Tuke to his daughters 1886-1893¿ Tone to Gonne: Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland , 21-JUN-07 - 24-JUN-07 [Details]
2007 Women¿s History and the Everyday. Annual Women¿s History Association of Ireland Conference
Breathnach, Ciara (2007) `Women and respectability in the west in the late 19th andearly 20thcenturies.¿ Women¿s History and the Everyday. Annual Women¿s History Association of Ireland Conference , 23-NOV-07 - 24-NOV-07 [Details]

Conference Contributions

  Year Publication
2007 Continuity and change: history of the European Family,
Breathnach C. (2007) History of Family Conference. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Continuity and change: history of the European Family, UL , 20-JUN-07 - 21-JUN-07 [Details]
2008 Visual, material and print culture in nineteenth-century Ireland,,
Breathnach C., Lawless C. (2008) Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland. [Chaired Session], Visual, material and print culture in nineteenth-century Ireland,, UL , 26-JUN-08 - 27-JUN-08 [Details]
2009 Power and History: 29th Irish Conference of Historians,
Anthony McElligott, Liam Chambers, Ciara Breathnach and catherine Lawless (2009) 29th Irish Conference of Historians. [Chaired Session], Power and History: 29th Irish Conference of Historians, Limerick , 12-JUN-09 - 14-FEB-13 [Details]
2010 17th Australasian Irish Studies Conference, QUB,
Breathnach, C (2010) ‘That the migration … would not result in moral decline’: from Cork to Dunedin in 1873’,. [Oral Presentation], 17th Australasian Irish Studies Conference, QUB, Belfast , 01-JUL-10 - 04-JUL-10 [Details]
2010 Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland, UCC,
Breathnach, C (2010) ‘Assisting migration to New Zealand’,. [Oral Presentation], Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland, UCC, Cork , 17-FEB-10 - 18-JUN-10 [Details]
2010 Society for the Social History of Medicine Conference, Durham,
Breathnach C (2010) The malnourished adult body in Irish medical records 1890-1920. [Chaired Session], Society for the Social History of Medicine Conference, Durham, Durham , 08-JUL-10 - 11-JUL-10 [Details]
2012 Sport and Leisure time,,
Breathnach C. (2012) SSNCI Annual Conference. [Invited Oral Presentation], Sport and Leisure time,, Mater Dei , 28-JUN-12 - 29-JUN-12 [Details]
2012 Medical Identities: Patients and Professionals,
Oonagh walsh, Ciara Breathnach and olwen Purdue (2012) Association of Medical Humanities annual conference. [Conference Organising Committee Member], Medical Identities: Patients and Professionals, University College Cork , 09-JUL-12 - 11-JUL-12 [Details]
2012 Health and Welfare in the Archive,
Breathnach C (2012) Transferring Psychiatric Hospital Records’,. [Invited Oral Presentation], Health and Welfare in the Archive, PRONI, Belfast , 14-JUN-12 - 15-JUN-12 [Details]
2012 Social History of Medicine conference,
Breathnach C (2012) ‘Concealing pain, evidence from infant Coroners’ reports 1912-1936’. [Oral Presentation], Social History of Medicine conference, Queen Mary, London , 11-SEP-12 - 14-FEB-13 [Details]
2012 Deviance in Modern Ireland,
Breathnach C (2012) ‘Malnutrition, malingering and weight gain in Irish prisons, 1885-1900’. [Oral Presentation], Deviance in Modern Ireland, UL , 31-MAR-12 - 31-MAR-12 [Details]

Book Review

  Year Publication
2021 WOMEN, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN IRELAND: LIFE IN THE NINETEENTH- CENTURY CONVICT PRISON.
Breathnach, C (2021) WOMEN, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN IRELAND: LIFE IN THE NINETEENTH- CENTURY CONVICT PRISON. CAMBRIDGE: Book Review [DOI] [Details]
2017 Grave Matters: Death and Dying in Dublin 1500 to the Present.
Breathnach, C (2017) Grave Matters: Death and Dying in Dublin 1500 to the Present. Book Review [DOI] [Details]
2014 THE CRUELTY MAN: CHILD WELFARE, THE NSPCC AND THE STATE IN IRELAND, 1899-1956.
Breathnach, C (2014) THE CRUELTY MAN: CHILD WELFARE, THE NSPCC AND THE STATE IN IRELAND, 1899-1956. Book Review [Details]
2014 The Dispossessed State: narratives of ownership in 19th-century Britain and Ireland.
Breathnach, C (2014) The Dispossessed State: narratives of ownership in 19th-century Britain and Ireland. Book Review [DOI] [Details]
2013 'SHE SAID SHE WAS IN THE FAMILY WAY': PREGNANCY AND INFANCY IN MODERN IRELAND.
Breathnach, C (2013) 'SHE SAID SHE WAS IN THE FAMILY WAY': PREGNANCY AND INFANCY IN MODERN IRELAND. Book Review [Details]
2012 Review of Asking Angela Mcnamara: an intimate history of Irish lives by Paul Ryan.
Breathnach, C (2012) Review of Asking Angela Mcnamara: an intimate history of Irish lives by Paul Ryan. Book Review [DOI] [Details]

Editorial

  Year Publication
2016 Perspectives on patienthood, practitioners and pedagogy.
Breathnach, C,Kelly, BD (2016) Perspectives on patienthood, practitioners and pedagogy. Editorial [DOI] [Details]
2008 Introduction: Ireland church, state and society 1900-1975.
Breathnach C. (2008) Introduction: Ireland church, state and society 1900-1975. Editorial [DOI] [Details]
2012 Introduction.
Breathnach, C,Chambers, L,McElligott, A (2012) Introduction. Editorial [Details]

Reviews

  Year Publication
2017 A tale of two cities - Infant mortality and cause of infant death, Dublin, 1864-1910.
Breathnach C.;Gurrin B. (2017) A tale of two cities - Infant mortality and cause of infant death, Dublin, 1864-1910. Reviews [DOI] [Details]
2012 Medicalizing the female reproductive cycle in rural Ireland, 1926-56.
Breathnach C. (2012) Medicalizing the female reproductive cycle in rural Ireland, 1926-56. Reviews [DOI] [Details]

Honours and Awards

  Year Title Awarding Body
2013 IRC, Main Principal Investigator Irish Research Council
2014 Harvard University, Foundation for Women in Medicine Fellow, Center for the History of Medicine, Harvard University
2013 Flaherty Visiting Fellow University of Massachusetts, Boston
2010 Principal Investigator Irish Research Council
2012 Visiting Faculty New York University
2012 Visiting Fellow Institute of Historical Research, London
2004 Royal Irish Academy, British- Irish Exchange Scheme
2005 Royal Irish Academy, British- Irish Exchange scheme

Professional Associations

  Association Function From / To
Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland President 30-JUN-10 / 30-JUN-14
Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland Secretary 01-MAY-07 /

Committees

  Committee Function From / To
Heritage Council of Ireland Committee Member 2012 / 2016
Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland Secretary 2007 /
Committee member of the National Library of Ireland on Genealogy and Heraldry. Advisory Committee to the Chief Herald of Ireland 2005 / 2008

Education

  Year Institution Qualification Subject
2003 UCC PhD

Languages

  Language Reading Writing Speaking
Gaeilge Fluent Functional Fluent