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Lindsey Earner-Byrne

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Dr.
Lindsey Earner-Byrne
Known forProfessor of Irish Gender history, Irish history author
Academic work
Notable worksMother and Child: Maternity and Child Welfare in Dublin, 1920s-1960s

Letters of the Catholic Poor. Poverty in Independent Ireland, 1920-1940
The rape of Mary M.: A microhistory of sexual violence and moral redemption in 1920s Ireland

Forgotten: The Widows of the Irish Revolution

Lindsey Earner-Byrne is currently Professor of Contemporary Irish History at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and author of Irish history books.[1]

Biography

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Dr Lindsey Earner-Byrne is a historian focusing on modern Irish history. She was a lecturer in the School of History at University College Dublin. Her research has covered gender, health and welfare with a particular interest in sexual violence. Earner-Byrne became the SALI Chair of Irish Gender History at UCC in January 2021, and was the Professor of Irish Gender history at University College Cork.[2] Earner-Byrne is on the Board of the Irish Manuscripts Commission. She's a member of the Royal Irish Academy.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

Bibliography

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Books

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  • Mother and Child: Maternity and Child Welfare in Dublin, 1920s-1960s, Manchester, 2007
  • Letters of the Catholic Poor. Poverty in Independent Ireland, 1920-1940, Cambridge University Press, 2017

Articles

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  • "The rape of Mary M.: A microhistory of sexual violence and moral redemption in 1920s Ireland", Journal of the History of Sexuality, (Jan. 2015)

Films

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  • Forgotten: The Widows of the Irish Revolution (RTÉ One, May 2022)[9][10]

Sources

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  1. ^ "Lindsey Earner Byrne, Professor of Contemporary Irish History". tcd.ie. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
  2. ^ "Lindsey Earner-Byrne | Royal Irish Academy". www.ria.ie. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
  3. ^ Finn, Clodagh (20 November 2021). "Lindsey Earner-Byrne: Women's history has demonstrated that silence makes a noise of its own". Irish Examiner.
  4. ^ Earner-Byrne, Lindsey (18 March 2021). "Why were women omitted from modern Irish history?". RTÉ.ie.
  5. ^ "Appointment of six new members to the Board of the Irish Manuscripts Commission (IMC)". www.gov.ie. 2 September 2021. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  6. ^ "Lindsey Earner-Byrne". Royal Irish Academy.
  7. ^ "Lindsey Earner-Byrne". www.irishhumanities.com. Irish Humanities Alliance.
  8. ^ "University College Cork". UCC.
  9. ^ "Professor Lindsey Earner-Byrne - From the Cutting Room Floor: Locating Other Voices in Modern Irish History". www.ucc.ie. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
  10. ^ Earner-Byrne, Lindsey (8 March 2022). "Why were women omitted from modern Irish history?". Raidió Teilifís Éireann.