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Dr. Ciaran O'Neill
Associate Professor 19th Century History, History

Publications and Further Research Outputs

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Ciaran O'Neill and Finola O'Kane, Ireland, Slavery and the Caribbean; Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 1, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2023, 1 - 352pp Book, 2023

In Search of Excess: Lambert Blair and his appetites in, editor(s)Ciaran O'Neill and Finola O'Kane , Ireland, Slavery and the Caribbean; Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2023, pp193 - 214, [Ciaran O'Neill] Book Chapter, 2023

The Literary Americanisation of Ireland in, editor(s)Fionnuala Walsh , America in Ireland: Culture and Society 1841-1925 , Cambridge University Press, 2023, [Ciaran O'Neill] Book Chapter, 2023

S Karly Kehoe and Ciaran O'Neill, A Catholic Atlantic?, Journal of Victorian Culture, 2022 Journal Article, 2022

Ciaran O'Neill, Harvard Scientist seeks Typical Irishman': Measuring the Irish Race 1888-1936, Radical History Review, (143), 2022, p89 - 108 Journal Article, 2022

'How should historians approach elites?, in, editor(s)Mikael Palme, Bertand Reau and Francois Denord , Researching Elites and Power. Theory, Method, Analyses, Singapore, Springer, 2020, pp159 - 168, [Ciaran O'Neill] Book Chapter, 2020 TARA - Full Text

Education and Elites in, editor(s)Tanya Fitzgerald , Internatonal Handbook of Historical Studies in Education: Debates, Tensions and Directions, Singapore, Springer, 2020, pp1 - 11, [Ciaran O'Neill and Petter Sandgren] Book Chapter, 2020

Juliana Adelman and Ciaran O'Neill, Love, Consent, and the Sexual Script of a Victorian Affair in Dublin, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 29, (3), 2020, p388 - 417 Journal Article, 2020

Ciaran O'Neill and Emma Donoghue, 'The cage of my moment': a conversation with Emma Donoghue about history and fiction, Journal of Historical Fictions, 2, (2), 2019, p126 - 141 Journal Article, 2019 TARA - Full Text

Mary Hatfield and Ciaran O'Neill, Education and Empowerment: Cosmopolitan education and Irish women in the early nineteenth century, Gender & History, 30, (1), 2018, p93 - 109 Journal Article, 2018 URL

Bourgeois Ireland, or, on the benefits of keeping one's hands clean in, editor(s)James Kelly , The Cambridge History of Ireland, III, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp517 - 541, [Ciaran O'Neill] Book Chapter, 2018

Literacy and Education' in, editor(s)Eugenio F. Biagini and Mary E. Daly , The Cambridge Social History of Ireland 1740 to the present, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2017, pp244 - 260, [Ciaran O'Neill] Book Chapter, 2017

Ciaran O'Neill and Thomas Cauvin, Negotiating Public History in the Republic of Ireland, Historical Research, 2017 Journal Article, 2017

Education, Cosmopolitan Cultural Capital, and European Elites in the Nineteenth Century in, editor(s)James Kelly and Susan Hegarty , Schools and schooling, 1650-2000 New perspectives on the history of education - the eighth Seamus Heaney lectures, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2017, pp93 - 109, [Ciaran O'Neill] Book Chapter, 2017 TARA - Full Text

Maeve Casserly and Ciaran O'Neill, Public History, Invisibility, and Women in the Republic of Ireland, The Public Historian, 39, (2), 2017, p10 - 30 Journal Article, 2017 TARA - Full Text DOI

Ciaran O'Neill, Mo Moulton, Michael De Nie, Enda Delaney, Roundtable Discussion: Teaching Transnational History', , Eire-Ireland, 51, (1&2), 2016, p266 - 276 Journal Article, 2016

Eire-Ireland, 51, 1&2, (2016), 1 - 280p, Ciaran O'Neill and Enda Delaney, [eds.] Journal, 2016

Women, Ambition, and the City, 1890-1910, in, editor(s)Anna Pilz and Whitney Standlee , Irish Women's Writing, 1878-1922: Advancing the Cause of Liberty , Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2016, pp100 - 120, [Ciaran O'Neill and Mai Yatani] Book Chapter, 2016

Ciaran O'Neill, Enda Delaney, 'Beyond the Nation', Eire-Ireland, 51, (1&2), 2016, p7 - 14 Journal Article, 2016

Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, 103, 412, (2015), 1 - 602p, Bruce Bradley, Daire Keogh, Ciaran O'Neill, [eds.] Journal, 2015

The Irish Schoolboy Novel in, editor(s)Maria Luddy and James Smith , Children, childhood and Irish society 1500 to the present, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2014, pp183 - 197, [Ciaran O'Neill] Book Chapter, 2014

Ciaran O'Neill, Catholics of Consequence: Transnational Education, Social Mobility and the Irish Catholic Elite 1850-1900, 1st, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014, 1 - 272pp Book, 2014

'Introduction' in, editor(s)Ciaran O'Neill , Irish Elites in the Nineteenth Century, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2013, pp17 - 30, [Ciaran O'Neill] Book Chapter, 2013 TARA - Full Text

Power, wealth and Catholic identity in Ireland, 1850-1900 in, editor(s)Oliver P. Rafferty , Irish Catholic Identities, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2013, [Ciaran O'Neill] Book Chapter, 2013

Ciaran O'Neill, Irish Elites in the Nineteenth Century, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2013, 1 - 280pp Book, 2013 URL

Education, Imperial careers and the Irish Catholic Elite in the nineteenth century in, editor(s)D.J. Dickson, J. Pyz, C Shepard , Irish Classrooms and British Empire: Imperial contexts for the Origins of Modern Education, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2012, pp98 - 110, [Ciaran O'Neill] Book Chapter, 2012 TARA - Full Text URL

Ciaran O'Neill, Rule Etonia:Educating the Irish Catholic Elite 1850-1900, University of Liverpool, 2010 Thesis, 2010

Pearse, Parnell & the priests: history and politics in the Irish schoolboy novel in, editor(s)Katerina Jencova, Michaela Markova, Radvan Markus, Hana Pavelkova , The Politics of Irish Writing, Prague, Centre for Irish Studies, Charles University, 2010, pp69 - 77, [Ciaran O'Neill] Book Chapter, 2010 TARA - Full Text

Ciaran O'Neill, The Irish schoolboy novel, Eire-Ireland, 44, (1-2), 2009, p147 - 168 Journal Article, 2009 URL TARA - Full Text DOI

Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

Mobeen Hussain, Ciaran O'Neill and Patrick Walsh,, Draft Trinity Colonial Legacies Working Paper on TCD and Slavery, 2023 Working Paper, 2023 TARA - Full Text

Mobeen Hussain, Ciaran O'Neill and Patrick Walsh, , Working Paper on George Berkeley"s Legacies at Trinity, 2023 Working Paper, 2023 URL TARA - Full Text

Patrick Walsh, Ciaran O'Neill, Mobeen Hussain, Working Paper on Human Remains from Inishbofin held in the Haddon-Dixon collection at TCD, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2022 Working Paper, 2022 URL

The Irish Artist in the World: Culture, Markets, and Modernity,' i in, editor(s)Marty Fahey , Who do We Say We Are? Irish art 1922 | 2022, South Bend, Indiana, Snite Museum of Art, 2022, pp42 - 53, [Ciaran O'Neill] Book Chapter, 2022

Ciaran O'Neill, The Public History of Slavery in Dublin , 24th Annual Gilbert Lecture, Dublin City Library and Archive, 2022, 1 - 32pp Invited Talk, 2022

Ciaran O'Neill and Billy Shortall, 'Seeing ireland ', www.seeingireland.ie, 2022, - Digital research resource production, 2022

Sylvie Kleinman, Ireland and the '£20 millions swindle Irish names in the British Legacy of Slavery database, History Ireland, 29, (3), 2021, p26-29 Journal Article, 2021

Debruyne, Christophe, Anne Kearns, Ciaran O'Neill, Mary Colclough, Laura Grehan, and Declan O'Sullivan(ed.), 13th ACM Web Science Conference 2021, DALIDA: Data Literacy Discussion Workshops for Adults." , 2021, 23-25 p Proceedings of a Conference, 2021

Ciaran O'Neill, 'Dublin's Lost Wetlands and the Technosphere,', SYSTEMS, Science Gallery Dublin, 2021, - Exhibition, 2021

Ciaran O'Neill, Review of Catholicism, Identity, and Politics in the Age of Enlightenment: The Life and Career of Sir Thomas Gascoigne 1745-1810., by Alexander Lock , Church History, 86, (3), 2017, p911-12 Review, 2017

Ciaran O'Neill, 'Exhibition Catalogue Essay', The Foggy Dew, Dublin, RHA, 2016, 10 - 13 Exhibition, 2016

Ciaran O'Neill, Review of Divergent Paths, by John Herson , Economic History Review, 69, (2), 2016, p718-9 Review, 2016

Ciaran O'Neill, 'Power in Victorian Britain and Ireland', Research Seminar, Glasgow Caledonian University, 18 March, 2015 Invited Talk, 2015

Ciaran O'Neill, European Elites, cultural capital, and intermediate education in the nineteenth century, Heaney Lectures, St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin, 20 October, 2015 Invited Talk, 2015

Ciaran O'Neill, OUR FRIENDS IN THE NORTH, Project Arts Centre, Temple Bar, Dublin, 21 February, 2015, Rough Magic Theatre Company Invited Talk, 2015

Ciaran O'Neill, POWER, COSMOPOLITANISM, AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF EUROPEAN ELITES, 8-9 June , 2015, Trinity Long Room Hub, Dublin Meetings /Conferences Organised, 2015

Ciaran O'Neill, Becoming Revolutionaries, March - May, In:Glasnevin TCD Lecture Series, 2015, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin Meetings /Conferences Organised, 2015

Ciaran O'Neill, Power in 19th Century Britain and Ireland, Boston College, 12 November, 2015 Invited Talk, 2015

Ciaran O'Neill, Passages between Ireland and Britain, European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies, Palermo, Sicily, Italy, 3-6 June 2015, 2015 Conference Paper, 2015

Ciaran O'Neill, 'Promoting Catholics of Consequence (2014)', Talking History, 2015, - Broadcast, 2015

Ciaran O'Neill, Review of, Review of Deirdre Raftery and Karin Fischer (2014), Educating Ireland: Schooling and Social Change 1700-2000, , by Deirdre Raftery and Karin Fischer , Breac, 1, (1), 2015 Review, 2015

Ciaran O'Neill, The future and the past of the state, 16 April, 2015, Trinity Long Room Hub, Dublin Meetings /Conferences Organised, 2015

Ciaran O'Neill, The Transnational Turn in Irish Historiography, Atlantic Archipelagos Research Consortium, Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool, 31 January, 2015 Invited Talk, 2015

Ciaran O'Neill, ''Programme Note'', Famished Castle, Rough Magic Theatre Company, 2015, - 1 Theatre Production, 2015

Ciaran O'Neill, Blandyke: continental legacies in nineteenth-century Irish elite education, College Communities in Exile, University of Limerick, 15 May, 2014 Conference Paper, 2014

Ciaran O'Neill, (Keynote address) 'Transnational Ireland', ABEI, Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, 25 August, 2014 Invited Talk, 2014

Ciaran O'Neill, Ireland and the Jesuits 1814-1914, 19 - 20 September, In:CHSI 2014, 2014, Belvedere College, Dublin Meetings /Conferences Organised, 2014

Ciaran O'Neill, Public History in Ireland - an expanding field, American Conference for Irish Studies, UCD, Dublin, 12 June 2014, 2014 Conference Paper, 2014

Ciaran O'Neill, 'Grave Matters', March-May, In:Glasnevin TCD Lecture Series, 2014, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin Meetings /Conferences Organised, 2014

Ciaran O'Neill, Teaching Transnational History at Trinity, American Conference for Irish Studies, UCD, Dublin, 12 June 2014, 2014 Conference Paper, 2014

Ciaran O'Neill, Review of Ireland in Official Print Culture, 1800-1850, by Niall O Ciosain , The Times Literary Supplement, 2014 Review, 2014

Ciaran O'Neill, 'Debate on Thomas Davis', Talking History, 2014, - Broadcast, 2014

Ciaran O'Neill, 'Paying for privilege whether we benefit or not', Irish Times, 21 October, Dublin, 2014, - 2 Broadcast, 2014

Ciaran O'Neill, Public History in Ireland, Edinburgh Seminar in Irish History, University of Edinburgh, 12 February, 2014 Invited Talk, 2014

Ciaran O'Neill, Imperial Careers and Irish Catholic Elite, Education and Elites, Stockholm, 31-31 January 2013, 2013 Conference Paper, 2013

Ciaran O'Neill, 'Mapping Public History in Ireland', Research Seminar, QUB, Belfast, 28 November , 2013, Ulster Historical Society Invited Talk, 2013

Ciaran O'Neill, Education and Social Class - Past and Present, American Conference for Irish Studies, Chicago, 10-13 April, 2013 Invited Talk, 2013

Ciaran O'Neill, Panel Member, Bram Stoker and Dublin, Dublin, 27 October, 2013, Bram Stoker Festival Invited Talk, 2013

Ciaran O'Neill, Panel Discussion 'Reinterpreting Victorian Ireland' , IHS , Dublin, 21 May, 2013, Irish Historical Society Invited Talk, 2013

Ciaran O'Neill, Panel Convenor, History Festival of Ireland, Carlow, June, 2013 Invited Talk, 2013

Ciaran O'Neill, Transnational Ireland Network Meeting, 26 April, 2013, TCD, Dublin Meetings /Conferences Organised, 2013

Ciaran O'Neill, Creating international partnerships for postgraduate Public History programmes, National Conference for Public History, Ottawa, 17 April, 2013 Invited Talk, 2013

Ciaran O'Neill, Irish Women, Ambition, and the City c.1890-1910., Research Seminar, Cambridge, 6 November, 2013, Cambridge Group for Irish Studies Invited Talk, 2013

Ciaran O'Neill, CITTA and 'Intercultural cities'- trying to learn lessons from the present., Transnational Ireland Network, University of Edinburgh, April 2012, 2012 Conference Paper, 2012

Ciaran O'Neill, Fionnuala in France, Transnational Ireland Network, NUI Galway, April , 2012 Conference Paper, 2012

Ciaran O'Neill, Country Report: Ireland, International Workshop for the Organisation of the Research Project Reputational elites in small European nation states (19-20th centuries), CEU Budapest, 3 February, 2012, Viktor Karady Invited Talk, 2012

Ciaran O'Neill, Colonized Twice?: Rethinking the relationship between Catholics and Empire in the nineteenth century., Catholic Historical Society, NUI Maynooth, 3 November, 2012 Conference Paper, 2012

Ciaran O'Neill, Clongowes in Fiction, or, the Long Shadow of James Joyce, The Clongownian , 2011, p49 - 53 Journal Article, 2011

Ciaran O'Neill, Fergus D'Arcy (2010). Terenure College 1860-2010, Review of Terenure College 1860-2010, by Fergus A. D'Arcy , . Irish Economic and Social History, XXXVIII , 2011, p3 Review, 2011

Research Expertise

Keywords

Elites and Education; Irish and British History 1800-1920; Irish Social History; Public History

Recognition

Representations

External Examiner (History and Politics), Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool 2019

Member: The Docklands Oversight and Consultative Forum. (DOCF) is a statutory body appointed by the Minister for Housing, Planning & Local Government. 2020

Chair of a Learned Society: President of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland 2014

Awards and Honours

Patrick B O'Donnell Visiting Professor, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, USA (Spring 2019) 5 months 2019

Burns Library Scholar, Boston College, USA (Fall/Winter, 2018) 5 months 2018

James S. Donnelly Sr. Prize for Best Book in History and the Social Sciences, ACIS 2015

Provost's Teaching Award, Trinity College Dublin 2015

Provost's PhD Project Award, Trinity College Dublin (2019) 2019

Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, University of São Paulo, Brazil - SPECTRESS Project - 3 months 2014

NUI Travelling Studentship 2007

BAIS Postgraduate Bursary 2007

TLRH - Research Incentive Grant 2014

Fellow of Trinity College Dublin 2019

Visiting CRC Fellow, St Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (Summer, 2018) 2018

IRC New Foundations Award (2016) 2016

EU-DARIAH Public Humanities Award (2016) 2016

Insight Development Grant, Canadian SSHRC (2019) 2019

Memberships

President: Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland 2014 – 2018

Founder member: Transnational Ireland Research Network 2012

American Conference for Irish Studies 2013

Irish Historical Studies 2011 – 2015

International Federation for Public History 2012