Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin

Dr Morgan Wait

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Teaching Fellow

Morgan Wait is a social historian of gender and sexuality in modern Ireland with a particular focus on histories of recreation. Their work has examined the history of television in Ireland, histories of drug use, and more recently histories of queer social space. Prior to working in Trinity Morgan worked as a postdoctoral research fellow on the European Research Council Funded DIASPORA project in UCD’s Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland. Morgan completed their PhD and M.Phil at TCD and a BA in history at Salisbury University.

Selected Publications

Monograph

Rediscovering Women on Early Irish Television, 1957-73 (Forthcoming, 2027, Liverpool University Press)

Articles

‘Well they weren’t married!’: The Marriage Bar at Radio/Telefís Éireann, in The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, September 2024.
Writing the History of Women's Programming at Telefís Éireann: A Case Study of Home for Tea in Alphaville Journal of Film and Screen Media, issue 20, January 2021.