Dr. Carole Holohan

• 'John Charles McQuaid and the failure of youth sodalities, 1956-61' in, editor(s)Colm Lennon , Honouring God and community: confraternities and sodalities in modern Ireland , Dublin, Columba Press, 2012, pp126 - 147, [Carole Holohan]Book Chapter, 2012
• Carole Holohan, 'Challenges to social order and Irish identity? Youth culture in the sixties' , Irish Historical Studies, 38, (151), 2013, p389 - 405Journal Article, 2013
• 'A powerful antidote? Catholic youth clubs in the sixties' in, editor(s)Catherine Cox and Susannah Riordan , Adolescence in Modern Irish History , Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, pp176 - 198, [Carole Holohan]Book Chapter, 2015
• Carole Holohan, 'Conceptualising and responding to poverty in the Republic of Ireland in the 1960s: a case study of Dublin' , Social History, 41, (1), 2016, p34 - 53Journal Article, 2016
• 'More than a revival of memories? 1960s Youth and the 1916 in, editor(s)Mary Daly and Margaret O'Callaghan , 1916 in 1966: commemorating the Easter Rising , Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 2007, pp173 - 197, [Carole Holohan]Book Chapter, 2007
• Carole Holohan, Jack McGinley (ed.) Cluskey: the conscience of labour, Saothar: Journal of the Irish Labour History Society, 41, (1916 Special Issue), 2016Review, 2016
• Carole Holohan, Reframing Irish Youth in the Sixties , Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2018, 1 - 272ppBook, 2018
• Carole Holohan, Review of Sexual Politics in modern Ireland , by Jennefir Redmond, Sonja Tiernan, Mary McAuliffe and Sandra McEvoy , Irish Literary Supplement, A review of Irish Books, vo. 37, (no. 2), 2017Review, 2017
• Carole Holohan, 1977 in the National Archives, History Ireland, 16, (1), 2008, p14 - 15Review Article, 2008, URL
• Carole Holohan, In Plain Sight: Responding to the Ferns, Ryan, Murphy and Cloyne Reports, Dublin, Amnesty International Ireland, September, 2011, p1 - 436Report, 2011
• Carole Holohan, Roisín Higgins and Catherine O'Donnell, 1966 and all that: the 50th anniversary commemorations, History Ireland, 1, 2006, p31 - 36Review Article, 2006
• Carole Holohan, The Second Vatican Council, poverty and Irish mentalities, History of European Ideas, 46, (7), 2020, p1009 - 1026Journal Article, 2020, URL
• Carole Holohan, Sean O'Connell, Robert J Savage, Rediscovering poverty: moneylending in the Republic of Ireland in the 1960s, Irish Historical Studies, XLV, (168), 2021, p282 - 302Journal Article, 2021
• 'The Catholic Council for Social Welfare in Ireland' in, editor(s)Laura Lee Downs, Clarisse Berthezène, Dominika Gruziel, Efi Avdela, Dimitra Lampropoulou , Mobilizing Welfare in Europe: The Unpolitical Politics of Social Action, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2024, pp239 - 249, [Carole Holohan]Book Chapter, 2024
• Carole Holohan, Review of Going to My Father"s House: A History of My Times, by Patrick Joyce , Family and Community History, 27, (3), 2024, p274-276Review, 2024
• Carole Holohan, `"[W]e will bring you to a nicer place to work with more money": a reflection on work in Irish institutions.", Saothar: Journal of Irish Labour History, 2025Journal Article, 2025
• Lindsey Earner-Byrne, Roisín Higgins and Carole Holohan, Encountering modern Irish history: historiography, archives and imagination in the twenty-first century, Irish Historical Studies, 2025Journal Article, 2025

• Carole Holohan, 'Towards 2016', UCD Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive, (UCD Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive Research Report Series; 14), Dublin, UCD Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive, 2010, 1 - 10Fieldwork collection
• Carole Holohan and Lindsey Earner-Byrne, 'Was 'society' really to blame for what happened in mother and baby homes?', Irish Examiner, 2021, -Broadcast, URL
• Carole Holohan, Culture of Work, Behind the Headlines, Trinity Long Room Hub, 23 November, 2021, Trinity Long Room HubInvited Talk, URL
• Carole Holohan, The State of Irish History , The Irish Seminar 2021, Keogh Naughton Institute, 8 June, 2021, University of NotredameInvited Talk, URL
• Carole Holohan, Growing up in late 20th century Ireland , One Dublin One Book, 10 December , 2020, Dublin City CouncilInvited Talk, URL
• Carole Holohan, 'Social Class and Dublin: the final Taboo' , Trinity and the Changing City , Trinity Long Room Hub, 4 April, 2019, Trinity Long Room HubInvited Talk, URL
• Carole Holohan, 'The credibility gap: social historians and archives'., Violence Space and the Archive, NUI Galway, 23-24 May 2019, 2019Oral Presentation, URL
• Carole Holohan, 'A poor place? Rethinking Irish histories of welfare', Oxford Irish History Seminar, Hertford College, Oxford, 8 March 2023, 2023, Oxford Faculty of HistoryInvited Talk
• Carole Holohan, Sean O'Connell, Robert Savage, Moneylending in the Republic of Ireland in the 1960s, Seminar, Irish Studies, Boston College, Boston College, MA 02467, USA, 2 November 2022, 2022, Irish Studies, Boston CollegeInvited Talk
• Carole Holohan, 'Church, state and responsibility: new histories of Irish welfare.', Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies Seminar Series, University of Aberdeen, 28th March 2023, 2023, Research Institute of Irish and Scottish StudiesInvited Talk
• Carole Holohan, 'Comedies, tragedies and evaluations of one another: Understanding class in 20th century Ireland', Modern Irish History Seminar, University of Cambridge, Sussex College, 24th January 2024, 2024Invited Talk
• Carole Holohan, '"Deeds done" and "feelings felt": Analysing class in twentieth-century Ireland., Modern and Contemporary Irish History Seminar, Trinity Long Room Hub, 27 March 2024, 2024Invited Talk
• Carole Holohan, 'Behind the records: who holds the truth?', Behind the Headlines, Trinity Long Room Hub, 12 May 2025, 2025Conference Paper
• Carole Holohan, Wrap up discussion, New Directions in Contemporary Irish History, Trinity College Dublin, 25 April 2025, 2025Conference Paper
• Carole Holohan, 'Understanding Work in Institutions of Confinement', Doing the history of marginilisation in Ireland, Museum of Literature Ireland, 9 May 2025, 2025Conference Paper

• Title

  'Reframing '68 and the Sixties'
  Summary

  On the 50th anniversary, this symposium will bring together leading scholars to reinterpret the significance of the events of 1968. Some see '68 as a year of 'global revolt' as the revolutions of this year cut across national boundaries, from student protests in France to the Cultural Revolution in China. These events, however, did not come out of nowhere. Our symposium will analyse the genesis of these movements by considering the role of social, political and economic trends from the end of the Second World War, as well as global trends such as de-colonization and reform communism. The participants have been engaged in scholarship that adopts new approaches, from oral histories to cross-national comparisons. By bringing together those engaged in cutting-edge research in this field, the central research questions of this symposium will focus on rethinking the traditional disciplinary, spatial and temporal frameworks in which the significance of 1968 can be interpreted.
  Funding Agency

  Trinity Long Room Hub
  Date From

  26/9/18
  Date To

  28/9/18
• Title

  Poverty and Welfare in Postwar Ireland.
  Summary

  This project focuses on how poverty and welfare were reframed in the years after the Second World War (c. 1944-1973) and how this affected the provision and nature of services, as well as public and media attitudes, in the Republic of Ireland. In the West, the post-war era saw a focus on the state as a guarantor of individual rights, increased recognition of the value of professional and secular expertise, and changing public perceptions of social citizenship. Despite increasing deference to expertise and the traction gained by leftist conceptualisations of the role of the state, the meaning of poverty and welfare remained highly pluralistic as different countries had deep historic and political legacies that affected attitudes to poverty and the nature of service provision. While histories of poverty and welfare have tended to focus on welfare legislation, the history of the voluntary and NGO sectors is a growing field. This shift in focus has begun to undermine the received wisdom that the post-war era simply saw the evolution of a stronger state and a fading away of the voluntary sector. Given the strength of the voluntary sector in Ireland, it serves as an interesting case study to probe ideas of state responsibility and individual rights, as well as public and political attitudes to poverty and welfare.
  Funding Agency

  Alumni donations and Trinity's Commercial Revenue Unit.
  Date From

  September 2018
  Date To

  September 2022
• Title

  The Irish Experience
  Summary

  A workshop focused on the turn towards the concept of `experience" and what that means for those engaged in Irish Studies
  Funding Agency

  Making Ireland Research Theme (TCD)
  Date From

  23 May 2023
  Date To

  23 May 2023

History, Heritage and Archaeology,

• Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Scholarship 2012
• Nominated - Teaching Excellence Award 2023-4
• Nominated - Award for Excellence in Research Student Supervision 2023-4
• Nominated - Inspiring Educator Award 2024-5
• Provost's PhD Project Awards 2018
• Research Incentive Scheme, Trinity Long Room Hub 2018
• National University of Ireland - Grants towards scholarly publications 2014
• UCD College of Arts and Humanities, Seed Funding 2014
• Nominated - Provost's Teaching Award 2016
• Nominated - Award for Excellence in Supervision of Research Students - AHSS - 2024-25
• Postgraduate Research Scholarship- Higher Education Authority's North South Programme for Collaborative Research. 2004

• Women's History Association of Ireland Present
• Irish Association of Professional Historians (Founder Member) Present
• Oral History Network of Ireland Present
• Transnational Ireland Research Network Present