Dr. Ciaran O'Neill
Associate Professor 19th Century History, History
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Ciaran O'Neill and Billy Shortall, Seeing Ireland: Art, Culture, and Power in Modern Ireland, South Bend, IN, USA, University of Notre Dame Press, 2026, 1 - 224pp
Ciaran O'Neill and Juho Pekkarinen, Returning the Dead: the experience of repatriation and the heritage of racial science in Finland and Ireland, International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2026
Ciaran O'Neill, Finola O'Kane, and Chris Nikkel, Rotten Roots: The Colonial Genealogies of Irish Enslavers, The History of the Family, 2026
Irish Art in Transnational Context in, editor(s)Ciaran O'Neill and Billy Shortall , Seeing Ireland: Art, Culture, and Power in Modern Ireland, South Bend, IN, USA, 2026, pp1 - 14, [Ciaran O'Neill and Billy Shortall]
Artwashing The Nation Brand: The Instrumentalization of Art during the Decade of Centenaries in Ireland, 2012-2023 in, editor(s)Ciaran O'Neill and Billy Shortall , Seeing Ireland: Art, Culture, and Power in Modern Ireland, South Bend, IN, USA, University of Notre Dame Press, 2026, pp165-188 - [Ciaran O'Neill]
Trinity's Colonial Legacies: Transparency, Instrumentality, and Agency in an Engaged Research Project in, editor(s)Peter Bille Larsen, Markéta Krížová , European University Legacies: Problematic Heritage and Contemporary Practice, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2025, pp67 - 95, [Mobeen Hussain, Ciaran O'Neill, Patrick Walsh]
Ciaran O'Neill, Complex solidarities: the public history of Irish and Native American allyship, Settler Colonial Studies, 2025, p1 - 26
Trinity's Colonial Legacies. Transparency, Instrumentality, and Agency in an Engaged Research Project in, editor(s)Peter Bille Larsen, Markéta Križová, , Dealing with Complex Heritage: Revisiting University Pasts in Contemporary Practice, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2025, pp67 - 95, [Patrick Walsh, Mobeen Hussain, Ciaran O'Neill]
Georgina Laragy , Richard Legay , Ciaran O'Neill and Hannah K. Smyth, Public History in Global Perspective Inquiry, Exchange and Practice, Berlin, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025, 1 - 172pp
The Literary Americanisation of Ireland 1841-1925 in, editor(s)Fionnuala Walsh , America in Ireland: Culture and Society 1841-1925, Cambridge University Press, 2025, pp12 - 143, [Ciaran O'Neill]
S. Karly Kehoe, Ciaran O'Neill, 'A Colony to Themselves': Scottish Highland Settler Colonialism in British North America, 1770-1804, Journal of British Studies, 63, (3), 2024, p588 - 605, p588-605
Ciaran O'Neill, Power and Powerlessness in Union Ireland: Life in a Palliative State, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024, 1 - 272pp
Mobeen Hussain, Ciaran O'Neill and Patrick Walsh,, Report on George Berkeley's Legacies at Trinity, 2023
Ciaran O'Neill and Finola O'Kane, Ireland, Slavery and the Caribbean; Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 1, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2023, 1 - 352pp
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]
S Karly Kehoe and Ciaran O'Neill, A Catholic Atlantic?, Journal of Victorian Culture, 28, (4), 2023, p582 - 589
Introduction in, Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean Interdisciplinary perspectives, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2023, pp1 - 18, [Ciaran O'Neill and Finola O'Kane]
Debruyne, Christophe, Grehan, Laura, Hurley, Mairéad, Kearns, Anne, O'Neill, Ciaran, One year of DALIDA Data Literacy Workshops for Adults: A Report, ACM, 2022
Ciaran O'Neill, Harvard Scientist seeks Typical Irishman': Measuring the Irish Race 1888-1936, Radical History Review, (143), 2022, p89 - 108
Christophe Debruyne, Anne Kearns, Ciaran O'Neill, Mary Colclough, Laura Grehan, Declan O'Sullivan, DALIDA: Data Literacy Discussion Workshops for Adults, Websci21 Data Literacy Workshop, 13th ACM Webscience Conference, Virtual, 21 - 23 June 2021, 2021, pp23-25
'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]
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]
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
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
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
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]
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]
Thomas Cauvin, Ciaran O'Neill, Negotiating public history in the Republic of Ireland: collaborative, applied and usable practices for the profession, Historical Research, 90, (250), 2017, p810 - 828, p810-828
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]
Maeve Casserly and Ciaran O'Neill, Public History, Invisibility, and Women in the Republic of Ireland, The Public Historian, 39, (2), 2017, p10 - 30
Ciaran O'Neill, Mo Moulton, Michael De Nie, Enda Delaney, Roundtable Discussion: Teaching Transnational History', , Eire-Ireland, 51, (1&2), 2016, p266 - 276
Ciaran O'Neill, John Herson, Divergent paths: family histories of Irish emigrants in Britain 1820"1920 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. Pp. xiv+341. 37 figs. 30 tabs. ISBN 9780719090639 Hbk. £70.00), The Economic History Review, 69, (2), 2016, p718 - 719, p718-719
Eire-Ireland, 51, 1&2, (2016), 1 - 280p, Ciaran O'Neill and Enda Delaney, [eds.]
Enda Delaney, Ciaran O"Neill, Beyond the nation: Transnational Ireland, 51, 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]
Ciaran O'Neill, Enda Delaney, 'Beyond the Nation', Eire-Ireland, 51, (1&2), 2016, p7 - 14
Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, 103, 412, (2015), 1 - 602p, Bruce Bradley, Daire Keogh, Ciaran O'Neill, [eds.]
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]
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
'Introduction' in, editor(s)Ciaran O'Neill , Irish Elites in the Nineteenth Century, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2013, pp17 - 30, [Ciaran O'Neill]
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]
Ciaran O'Neill, Irish Elites in the Nineteenth Century, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2013, 1 - 280pp
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]
Ciaran O'Neill, Rule Etonia:Educating the Irish Catholic Elite 1850-1900, University of Liverpool, 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]
Ciaran O'Neill, The Irish schoolboy novel, Eire-Ireland, 44, (1-2), 2009, p147 - 168
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
O'Neill, Ciaran, Exhibiting irishness: empire, race, and nation, c.1850"1970, Folk Life, 2025, p1-2
Mobeen Hussain, Ciaran O'Neill and Patrick Walsh,, Draft Trinity Colonial Legacies Working Paper on TCD and Slavery, 2023
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
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]
Ciaran O'Neill, 'The Public History of Slavery in Dublin', 24th Annual Gilbert Lecture, (N), Dublin City Library and Archive, 2022, 1 - 32
Ciaran O'Neill and Billy Shortall, 'Seeing ireland ', www.seeingireland.ie, 2022, -
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
Ciaran O'Neill, 'Dublin's Lost Wetlands and the Technosphere,', SYSTEMS, Science Gallery Dublin, 2021, -
Ciaran O'Neill, Catholicism, Identity, and Politics in the Age of Enlightenment: The Life and Career of Sir Thomas Gascoigne 1745"1810. By Alexander Lock . Studies in Modern British Religious History 34. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2016. x + 255 pp. £60.00 cloth., Church History, 86, (3), 2017, p911 - 913, p911-913
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
Ciaran O'Neill, 'Exhibition Catalogue Essay', The Foggy Dew, Dublin, RHA, 2016, 10 - 13
Ciaran O'Neill, Review of Divergent Paths, by John Herson , Economic History Review, 69, (2), 2016, p718-9
Ciaran O'Neill, 'Power in Victorian Britain and Ireland', Research Seminar, Glasgow Caledonian University, 18 March, 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
Ciaran O'Neill, OUR FRIENDS IN THE NORTH, Project Arts Centre, Temple Bar, Dublin, 21 February, 2015, Rough Magic Theatre Company
Ciaran O'Neill, POWER, COSMOPOLITANISM, AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF EUROPEAN ELITES, 8-9 June , 2015, Trinity Long Room Hub, Dublin
Ciaran O'Neill, Becoming Revolutionaries, March - May, In:Glasnevin TCD Lecture Series, 2015, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin
Ciaran O'Neill, Power in 19th Century Britain and Ireland, Boston College, 12 November, 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
Ciaran O'Neill, 'Promoting Catholics of Consequence (2014)', Talking History, 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
Ciaran O'Neill, The future and the past of the state, 16 April, 2015, Trinity Long Room Hub, Dublin
Ciaran O'Neill, The Transnational Turn in Irish Historiography, Atlantic Archipelagos Research Consortium, Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool, 31 January, 2015
Ciaran O'Neill, ''Programme Note'', Famished Castle, Rough Magic Theatre Company, 2015, - 1
Ciaran O'Neill, Blandyke: continental legacies in nineteenth-century Irish elite education, College Communities in Exile, University of Limerick, 15 May, 2014
Ciaran O'Neill, (Keynote address) 'Transnational Ireland', ABEI, Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, 25 August, 2014
Ciaran O'Neill, Ireland and the Jesuits 1814-1914, 19 - 20 September, In:CHSI 2014, 2014, Belvedere College, Dublin
Ciaran O'Neill, Public History in Ireland - an expanding field, American Conference for Irish Studies, UCD, Dublin, 12 June 2014, 2014
Ciaran O'Neill, 'Grave Matters', March-May, In:Glasnevin TCD Lecture Series, 2014, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin
Ciaran O'Neill, Teaching Transnational History at Trinity, American Conference for Irish Studies, UCD, Dublin, 12 June 2014, 2014
Ciaran O'Neill, Review of Ireland in Official Print Culture, 1800-1850, by Niall O Ciosain , The Times Literary Supplement, 2014
Ciaran O'Neill, 'Debate on Thomas Davis', Talking History, 2014, -
Ciaran O'Neill, 'Paying for privilege whether we benefit or not', Irish Times, 21 October, Dublin, 2014, - 2
Ciaran O'Neill, Public History in Ireland, Edinburgh Seminar in Irish History, University of Edinburgh, 12 February, 2014
Ciaran O'Neill, Imperial Careers and Irish Catholic Elite, Education and Elites, Stockholm, 31-31 January 2013, 2013
Ciaran O'Neill, 'Mapping Public History in Ireland', Research Seminar, QUB, Belfast, 28 November , 2013, Ulster Historical Society
Ciaran O'Neill, Education and Social Class - Past and Present, American Conference for Irish Studies, Chicago, 10-13 April, 2013
Ciaran O'Neill, Panel Member, Bram Stoker and Dublin, Dublin, 27 October, 2013, Bram Stoker Festival
Ciaran O'Neill, Panel Discussion 'Reinterpreting Victorian Ireland' , IHS , Dublin, 21 May, 2013, Irish Historical Society
Ciaran O'Neill, Panel Convenor, History Festival of Ireland, Carlow, June, 2013
Ciaran O'Neill, Transnational Ireland Network Meeting, 26 April, 2013, TCD, Dublin
Ciaran O'Neill, Creating international partnerships for postgraduate Public History programmes, National Conference for Public History, Ottawa, 17 April, 2013
Ciaran O'Neill, Irish Women, Ambition, and the City c.1890-1910., Research Seminar, Cambridge, 6 November, 2013, Cambridge Group for Irish Studies
Ciaran O'Neill, CITTA and 'Intercultural cities'- trying to learn lessons from the present., Transnational Ireland Network, University of Edinburgh, April 2012, 2012
Ciaran O'Neill, Fionnuala in France, Transnational Ireland Network, NUI Galway, April , 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
Ciaran O'Neill, Colonized Twice?: Rethinking the relationship between Catholics and Empire in the nineteenth century., Catholic Historical Society, NUI Maynooth, 3 November, 2012
Ciaran O'Neill, Clongowes in Fiction, or, the Long Shadow of James Joyce, The Clongownian , 2011, p49 - 53
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
Research Expertise
Recognition
Representations
External Examiner (History and Politics), Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool
Member: The Docklands Oversight and Consultative Forum. (DOCF) is a statutory body appointed by the Minister for Housing, Planning & Local Government.
Chair of a Learned Society: President of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland
Board Member of the Irish Humanities Alliance
States of Modernity: Forging Ireland in Paris 1922 | 2022. In 2021-22 I was part of an initiative organised by Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, as part of the Decade of Centenaries Programme. This was multi-partner project, involving TCD, Centre Culturel Irlandais, University of Notre Dame, and the Department of Foreign Affairs. I was part of the standing committee.
Awards and Honours
Visiting Research Fellow, HEX (History of Experience), Tampere University, Finland (2025-26)
TCD Cross-Institutional Recognition Award for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
Patrick B O'Donnell Visiting Professor, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, USA (Spring 2019) 5 months
Burns Library Scholar, Boston College, USA (Fall/Winter, 2018) 5 months
James S. Donnelly Sr. Prize for Best Book in History and the Social Sciences, ACIS
Provost's Teaching Award, Trinity College Dublin
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, University of São Paulo, Brazil - SPECTRESS Project - 3 months
NUI Travelling Studentship
Fellow of Trinity College Dublin
Visiting CRC Fellow, St Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (Summer, 2018)
EU-DARIAH Public Humanities Award (2016)
Memberships
President: Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland
Founder member: Transnational Ireland Research Network
American Conference for Irish Studies
Irish Humanities Alliance
Irish Historical Studies
International Federation for Public History