Total Records Found: 121
First NameLast NameAffiliationPhDCountry FocusKeywordsAvailability
Princess O'Nika Auguste Independent Scholar other credentials gender, sexual violence, bible, ancient near east, ancient history, Greek, roman, church history, mental health, pop culture, feminism Media Contact
Katie Barclay University of Adelaide PhD Scotland, Ireland, UK Gender History, history of emotions, history of family, Scotland, Ireland, methodologies Media Contact
Catherine Bateson University of Kent, UK PhD United States, Ireland American Civil War, American Civil War Songs and Music, C19th Song and Music Culture, Irish American Civil War Songs, Irish American History, Irish America Transnational Culture, Diaspora Culture, Immigrant Identity, American History, C19th American Cultural History, Print Culture and Material Culture History, Ephemera, Military Culture and History Media Contact
Catherine Beck University of Copenhagen PhD United Kingdom Long 18th Century, Royal Navy, British Maritime World, Maritime Medicine, Insanity, Disability, Patronage and the Royal Navy, History of Psychiatry, Dockyards, Hospitals, Life at Sea Media Contact
Ruth Beecher Birkbeck, University of London PhD Race, gender, sexuality, sexual violence, child welfare, history of medicine, popular culture, oral history 1
Karina Bénazech Wendling Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes - PSL / GSRL-CNRS other credentials Ireland, United Kingdom British and Irish History; Religion and Politics; Religious conversion; Missions; Colonization and Nationalism; Protestant History and Sociology; Education; Famine; Humanitarianism. Media Contact
Aoife Bhreatnach Independent Researcher PhD Ireland Irish social history, military barracks, death and burial, urban history, Irish Travellers, Irish Protestants Media Contact
Lisa Bitel University of Southern California PhD medieval europe, history of religion, Ireland, Britain, celtic studies, gender Media Contact
Ciara Breathnach University of Limerick PhD Ireland Modern Ireland, medical History, social history, gender, death, migration Media Contact
Elizabeth Bruton Science Museum PhD museums, telecommunications history, military history, electrical history, Victorian technologies, scientific institutions, computing history, scientific instruments. 1
Keelin Burke The Newberry Library PhD Ireland Modern Ireland, history of gender, history of women, Irish Free State, politics and religion, Media Contact
Leanne Calvert University of Hertfordshire PhD Ireland, United Kingdom Women, Gender, Presbyterianism, Religion, Family History, Life Cycle, Sexuality Media Contact
Ruth Canning Liverpool Hope University PhD Ireland, England Early modern Ireland; Old English community; identity formation; petitions; military identities; colonialism; Elizabethan conspiracies; intelligence networks; early modern war and society; early modern England Media Contact
Stephanie Carta InterFuture Scholar (1997) other credentials History of Political Conflicts, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Media Contact
Ciara Chambers University College Cork PhD Ireland, Northern Ireland film history, newsreels, amateur film, Ireland Media Contact
Hannah Coates PhD England, Scotland and Ireland Walsingham, Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth I, Elizabethans, Tudors, early modern, political culture, politics, religion, gender, counsel, court, state, spies, espionage, diplomacy, Britain Media Contact
Carolyn Conley Professor Emerita at UAB PhD Gender and violence, social history of criminal justice, UK, Ireland, British Empire, Homicide Media Contact
Kimberley Connor Stanford University PhD Australia Food history, nineteenth century, immigration, Australia, institutions, material history, social history, historical archaeology Media Contact
Sophie Cooper University of Edinburgh PhD UK Irish history, Irish migrants, women religious, nineteenth century, Irish America, Irish Australia, immigrant history. Media Contact
Nicola Cousen PhD Ireland, Australia, United Kingdom Australian history, Irish history, history of medicine, biography, Irish in Australia, Ulster Presbyterians, Irish diaspora, ship's surgeons, Victorian gold rush, colonial medicine, Eureka, Ballarat Media Contact
Shayna Devlin University at Buffalo PhD Scotland Medieval, Scotland, Stewart, Family Politics, Duke of Albany, Monarchy, Absentee Authority, Britain, Ireland, Regent Media Contact
Cara Dobbing University of Leicester PhD United Kingdom Lunatic Asylums, Asylum Patients, History of Psychiatry, Insanity, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Idiocy, Imbecility, Pauper Insanity, Poor Law, Poverty, Nineteenth Century Media Contact
Abigail Doull Aberystwth University/Tufts University other credentials Media Contact
Anastasia Dukova Griffith University PhD Australia, Ireland, Canada, Great Britain History of Crime and Policing, Irish History, Irish Police, Dublin Metropolitan Police, Colonial Policing, Australian Police History, Urban Police Media Contact
Averill Earls St. Olaf College PhD Ireland History of Sexuality, LGBTQ, Same-Sex Desire, Homosexuality, Policing, History of Policing, Ireland, Gender, Masculinity, Urban History, Dublin, Imperialism, Colonialism, Postcolonialism Media Contact
Elaine Farrell Queen's University Belfast PhD Irish social history, Irish migration, Crime and punishment Media Contact
Amanda Finn North Carolina State University PhD Public History, Transnational Heritage, Cultural Heritage, Heritage Tourism, Atlantic World, Early America, Early Modern Britain, Early Modern Europe, Women's Studies, Historic House Museums, Heritage Sites, Digital History, Videography, Digital Communications Media Contact
Kelly Fleming Kenyon College PhD the long eighteenth century, British literature, gender and sexuality, women's property rights, political fashion, imperialism, women writers. Media Contact
Maire Fox St. John's University, Queens PhD Ireland anatomy, anatomical pedagogy, history of anatomical knowledge, autopsy, medico-legal autopsy, medical education, medical pedagogy, autopsy theatre, sociomedical history, Ireland, Dublin, Royal College of Physicians Media Contact
Tania Franco UNAM other credentials 1
Alison Garden Queen's University Belfast PhD Ireland, Northern Ireland Ireland, Northern Ireland, 'The Troubles', Gender History, Sexuality Studies, Roger Casement, Easter Rising, Women's Writing, Girlhood, Love & Marriage, Queer History, Postcolonial Studies, Atlantic Studies, Diaspora & Migration Media Contact
Sara Goek American Library Association PhD Ireland, United States Oral history, Irish diaspora, Irish migration, Irish America, Irish in Britain, American Immigration, Ethnic identity, Traditional & folk music Media Contact
Jo Guldi Southern Methodist University PhD Britain eviction, land rights, property law, British History, Britain, Ireland, Scotland, India, roads, highways, transport, cities, urbanism, digital history, digital humanities, net neutrality, participatory mapping, democracy, infrastructure, information Media Contact
Jenna Hardin William & Mary other credentials Early America, Britain, Ireland history of emotion; emotion; love; romance Media Contact
Josephine Harmon University College London PhD United States, comparative political science on US, Europe/EU and Latin America; political theory research Issue formation, modern conservatism conservative think tanks, Second Amendment politics, coalition, interest group networks, values in politics, political theory (descriptive/positive) Media Contact
Misti Harper Gustavus Adolphus College PhD United States African American history and women's history; gender and sexuality studies; intersectional feminism; tribalism; imperialism, resistance and decolonization Media Contact
Lucianna Harrison MA - Distinction awarded by Cardiff university in 2019. Graduate from University of Exeter (2014) other credentials Western Europe & the UK - England for much of my early modern studies. Women's Royal Air Force, WRAF, Womens Auxiliary Air Force, WAAF, Belief, Superstition, Late Medieval Religion, Heresy, Sorcery, Witchcraft, English Reformation, Tudor, Early Modern, Late Middle Ages, World War I, Great War, Women, Women's Auxiliary Corps, Media Contact
Amanda Herbert Folger Shakespeare Library PhD Britain Britain and the Atlantic, history of the body, history of gender and sexuality, history of medicine, food history, friendship and sociability Media Contact
Susan Hickey Independent Researcher other credentials !9th century Chicago and Cardiff Irish history Media Contact
Jenifer Ishee Hoffman Mississippi State University other credentials United States 18th century, Pennsylvania, American History, Women's history, suffrage, archivist Media Contact
Nicole Jacoberger Camden County College PhD Ireland, England, Barbados, Montserrat Historian, Atlantic World, Caribbean, Europe, Britain, England, Ireland, Montserrat, Barbados, Jamaica, Migrations, Colonial, Science, Technology, Sugar refining, Irish migration, Indentured labor, Enslaved labor, Race. Media Contact
Lauren Jean University of Notre Dame other credentials Gaelic-Speaking Medieval Ireland, Medieval Social History, Postcolonial Medieval, Medieval Cultural History, Irish History, Ireland 1913 - 1923, Integrated History of the Atlantic Archipelago Media Contact
Tenaya Jorgensen Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities, Trinity College Dublin other credentials Western Europe Vikings, Medieval History, North Atlantic History, Spatial Humanities, Environmental History Media Contact
Susan Kattwinkel College of Charleston PhD theatre, performance, music hall, vaudeville, nineteenth-century theatre, American theatre, dramatic literature, freak shows, contemporary variety theatre, higher education in the U.S. Media Contact
Bridget Keown University of Pittsburgh PhD Ireland, Great Britain, United States Gender, Trauma, First World War, Violence, Memory, Britain and British Empire, Ireland, Epidemics, HIV/AIDS activism, History of Medicine, History of Psychology Media Contact
Kathryn Lamontagne Boston University PhD Britain, England Royal history, monarchy, British monarchy, 19th, 20th, and 21st c British history, British Catholic Social History, 19th & 20th century Im/migration (especially Southern New England), Micro-Genealogy, Atlantic World, LGBTQ+ Catholic history, London Media Contact
Mary Elizabeth Lennon Fordham University other credentials Ireland, United States Ireland, Irish America, Southern US, Irish diaspora, Eamon de Valera, Irish revolution, Americanism Media Contact
Sarah Lewin Mississippi State University other credentials Britain, France Early Modern Europe, History of Science, History of Medicine, Body Politics, Women's History, Gender History, Occult History, Witchcraft, Sexuality Media Contact
Naomi Lloyd-Jones Hertford College, University of Oxford PhD Britain and Ireland Four nations history, British history, history of political organisation, history of political language, history of political culture, history of elections, history of Scottish nationalism Media Contact
Ute Lotz-Heumann University of Arizona PhD Germany, Ireland early modern European history, German history, Irish history, history of the British Isles, religious history, cultural history Media Contact
Dr Kirsteen M MacKenzie Professional Historian PhD Britain, Ireland, Scotland Early Modern British and Irish History 1603-1746. The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638-1660, Jacobites, Oliver Cromwell, Commonwealth and Protectorate 1649-1660. Media Contact
Jenny Macleod University of Hull PhD First World War, Gallipoli, commemoration, Britishness, war memorials, conscription Media Contact
Carmen M. Mangion Birkbeck, University of London PhD Britain religion, gender, Britain, England, Ireland, Catholicism, women religious, Catholic sisters and nuns, Anglican sisterhoods, deaconesses, medical marketplace Media Contact
Emily Mark-FitzGerald University College Dublin PhD Ireland, United States, Britain, Australia, Canada art history, cultural history, visual culture, commemoration, public art, nineteenth century, Irish famine, poverty, Irish photography, migration, Irish diaspora, cultural policy, museums, heritage Media Contact
Alison Martin Independent historian & researcher other credentials Ireland 20th century Irish History, Easter Rising, commemorations, personalities of the Irish revolution, Michael Collins, Collins and the British press, the wider Collins family Media Contact
Layla Martin Harvard University, Women's Media Center, She Rose Up other credentials astrofeminism, history of gendered bias in the space sector, history of women in data, history of women's contributions in space, history of motherhood penalty, advancing gender parity in the space sector, female-centric space priorities, the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Index as applied to space governance, policy & priorities, applying smart power to a modern global space code, space tech & climate action/mitigation progress, earth-centric space priorities, space & feminist theory, diversity & inclusion in space governance, policy & priorities, a transdisciplinary perspective of astropolitics, the motherhood penalty, bias and behavioral design, workplace gender bias 1
April Masten Stony Brook University PhD North America Nineteenth Century, art and labor, working-class culture, dance, Black-Irish, visual art, women artists, artists' models, music, cultural theory Media Contact
Vicky McAlister Southeast Missouri State University PhD Ireland, settlement, castles, landscapes, material culture, natural environment, digital humanities, medieval Europe, colonization, interdisciplinary history, pre-modern studies, agriculture, land use Media Contact
Mary McAuliffe University College Dublin PhD Ireland Gender, Modern Ireland, Social History, Irish Revolutionary histories, Gender, War and Violence, Histories of Irish feminisms and feminist activism, feminist biography, History of sexuality, Public History. Media Contact
Leanne McCormick Ulster University PhD Ireland/Northern Ireland, C19th and C20th, social history, women, gender, sexuality, medicine, crime, migration Media Contact
Kathleen McCrudden Illert European University Institute PhD France Intellectual History, History of Political Thought, French Revolution, Napoleonic Period, Europe, Women Media Contact
Ciaran McDonough University College Dublin PhD Ireland Nineteenth-century Irish antiquarianism, Irish Studies, Intellectual History, nineteenth-century European antiquarianism, and Cultural Nationalism. Media Contact
Lorraine McEvoy Trinity College Dublin other credentials United Kingdom, Ireland, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands humanitarianism, childhood, transnationalism, WWI, WWII, postwar periods, refugee studies, public history, outreach 1
Therese McIntyre NUIG (on leave) other credentials Ireland Irish History, Oral History, Songs/Ballads, Ethnography, Memory Studies, Irish Traditional Culture, Heroes/Historical Figures in the Song Tradition, Representations of Women in Song, Folklore Studies Media Contact
Anna McKay University College Cork PhD Britain, Ireland, Bermuda - British colonies Prison Ships, Prison Hulks, Convict History, Maritime History, Penal Transportation, Prisons, Prisoners of War, Social History, Cultural History, Penal History, Administrative, Labour, Reform, Material Culture, Shipboard Violence, Shipboard Routine, Warfare, Napoleonic Wars, American Revolution, Britain, Bermuda, Dockyards, Colonial History, Imperial History, 18th Century History, 19th Century History Media Contact
Ida Milne Carlow College St Patrick’s and Trinity College, Dublin PhD 1918-19 influenza pandemic, oral history, Wuhan corona virus, disease history, health, measles, infectious diseases of childhood, vaccination resistance, Irish Protestantism, newspaper history, gender in newspaper industry, Irish history, history of work, medical doctors' working lives. Media Contact
Nicky Milner University of York PhD Europe Archaeology, Fieldwork, Excavation, Mesolithic, Late Palaeolithic, Stone Age, Prehistory, Star Carr, oysters, shell middens, food, climate change, burial practices Media Contact
Karol Mullaney-Dignam University of Limerick, Ireland PhD Ireland Modern Ireland, musical culture and identity, cultural heritage, country houses and landed estates, arts education Media Contact
Erica Munkwitz American University (Washington, DC) PhD Britain and British Empire Equestrian, Gender, Sport, Britain, Empire, Imperial, Women, Horse, Fox Hunting, Polo Media Contact
Rachel Murphy University of Limerick PhD Media Contact
Elizabeth Neswald Brock University PhD Germany/Britain/North America 19th-early 20th century history of nutrition science, history of physiology, cultural history of thermodynamics, material culture of diabetes management Media Contact
Caoilfhionn Ní Bheacháin University of Limerick PhD Ireland Cultural History, Women's Writing, Intellectual and Literary Networks, (Proto)diplomacy, Postcolonialism, Communications, Print Culture 1
Sorcha O'Brien Kingston University PhD Ireland design history, product design, interiors, home, technology, electrical technology, irish culture, irish design, domesticity Media Contact
Maeve O'Riordan University College Cork PhD Ireland Women's History, Gender, Social History, Fashion, 19th Century, 20th Century, Genty, Aristocracy, Country House, Marriage, Family, Single Women, Gender Equality, Higher Education. Media Contact
Carole O’Reilly University of Salford UK PhD urban history, newspaper history, journalism history Media Contact
Senia Paseta University of Oxford PhD Women modern Ireland modern Britian feminism nationalism Media Contact
Catriona Pennell University of Exeter PhD War, memory, youth, education, empire, Middle East Media Contact
Sarah Peverley University of Liverpool PhD England, Britain, United Kingdom medieval culture, Wars of the Roses, medieval art, politics, John Hardyng, kings, queens, Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth Woodville, Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, Edward IV, King Arthur, Chaucer, mythology, Shakespeare, Game of Thrones, mermaids, merfolk Media Contact
JOY PORTER Treatied Spaces Research Group PhD North America Indigenous & Environmental History, First World War, Trauma, Modernity & Intellectual History, Culture & Environmental Politics of North America Media Contact
Danica Ramsey-Brimberg Independent PhD Atlantic Archipelago (England, Scotland, Ireland, Isle of Man, and Wales) British Isles, Early Medieval, Viking Age, Burial Archaeology, Ecclesiastical History, Church Archaeology, Regional History, Interdisciplinary Research, Medievalism Media Contact
Juliette Reboul Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen PhD France; British Isles; Europe Emigrés, Cultural Transfers, French Revolution, Book history, Private Libraries, Circulations, Conservatism, Database design, Digital Humanities, SQL, MEDIATE, FBTEE 1
Joan Redmond King's College London PhD Ireland and Britain Early modern Ireland, religion, violence, nationalism, ethnicity, identity formation, colonialism, Atlantic world, British history, memory, sixteenth century, seventeenth century. Media Contact
Maddison Rhoa other credentials Ireland, Northern Ireland Irish Rebellions, Irish Literary History, Catholicism, Identity, Agrarian/Rural Life, 19th & 20th Century Ireland, Republic of Ireland, History of Connacht, Gaelic Revival, British Literary History, British Literature Media Contact
Amy Elizabeth Robinson Independent Writer/Scholar PhD imperialism, colonialism, migration, race, mobility, modern britain, ireland, human rights, resistance, world history, women's history, literature and history 1
Marie Ruiz Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France PhD Migration, British history, emigration societies, emigrant letters, census, demography, Media Contact
Rachel Sayers Independent Scholar other credentials Ireland / United Kingdom Domesticity, Feminity, Social History, Domestic History, Ireland, 20th Century Ireland, Dress History, Fashion History, Irish History, Irish Dress History, Nostalgia, Memory. Media Contact
Erin K. Scheopner PhD England, Ireland Anglo-Irish, newspapers, British politics, empires and colonisalism 1
Margaret Scull Syracuse University London PhD Ireland, Britain Northern Ireland, Peace, Catholic Church, Ireland, The 'Troubles', Conflict Societies, Contemporary British History Media Contact
Dawn Seymour Klos Trinity College Dublin PhD England, Ireland Medieval, Women, Gender, Law, Ireland, England, Identity Construction, English Common Law, Thirteenth Century, Medievalism Media Contact
Stefanie Shackleton University of Texas at Austin other credentials United Kingdom Modern British Society and Culture, Victorian Society, Class and Labor, British Empire, Working Class Women, Nineteenth-Century Radicalism, Public History, Knowledge and Identity Media Contact
Aisling Shalvey University of Strasbourg other credentials France under German occupation Medical history, eugenics, mental health, euthanasia, medical studies, Nazi medical research 1
Megan Shaw University of Auckland PhD England and Ireland Art History, Early Modern Women, Stuart Court, Material Culture, Duchess of Buckingham, Early Modern England, 17th Century, Portraiture 1
Tina Shull UNC Charlotte PhD United States immigration, carceral studies, borders, race, empire, climate change, climate migration, Cold War, detention, deportation Media Contact
Rachel Singer Georgetown University other credentials United Kingdom, Ireland, France medieval, Britain, Wales, Gaul, plague, environment, gender, Europe, disease Media Contact
Twisha Singh McGill University PhD Media Contact
Elaine Sisson Institute of Art Design and Technology, Dublin PhD Ireland Cultural Historian, 19c and 20c Irish history, modernism, visual culture, material culture, theatre, set and costume design, Irish Free State, radicalism, experiment, bohemianism Media Contact
Sharon Slater Independent Researcher other credentials 19th Century, Social, Ireland, Limerick, Merchant, Genealogy, Textile, Fisheries, industrialisation 1
Margaret Smith Southern Illinois University Edwardsville PhD Ireland medieval Ireland, early modern Ireland, digital humanities, borderlands, identity, lordship Media Contact
Karen Sonnelitter Siena College PhD Ireland Ireland, British Isles, Eighteenth-Century, Philanthropy, Charity, Poverty, Social Reform Movements Media Contact
Nike Stam Utrecht University PhD Ireland, Middle Ages, bilingualism, Old Irish, Middle Irish, Latin, codeswitching, orthography Media Contact
Jennifer Steenshorne Independent PhD Trans-Atlantic Scholarly/historical editing, New York City, gambling, diplomacy, long 18th century, horses, book and manuscript culture Media Contact
Annika Stendebach International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, University of Giessen other credentials Ireland, Northern Ireland History of Children and Youth, Youth Cultures, Irish History, 20th century history, history of everyday life, oral history Media Contact
Ciara Stewart Durham University PhD Irish history, British history, Political history, Women's history, Petitions, Petitioning, The history of petitioning, Women's Political History, Gender, Networking, Mobilization, Separate spheres, Conflicts of morality, Popular sovereignty, The long nineteenth century, The twentieth century, archives, libraries, Women's political movements, Suffrage, Temperance, Unionism, Nationalism, Bodily autonomy. Media Contact
Deborah Sugg Ryan University of Portsmouth PhD United Kingdom home, ideal home, Ideal Home Exhibition, Ideal Home Show, history of home, housing, history of housing, house history, home of the future, house of the future, suburbia, history of suburbia, kitchens, kitchen history, smart kitchens, food history, domestic design, interior design, pageants, pageantry, historical pageants, local pageants, national pageants, trade exhibitions, trade shows, commercial exhibitions, vintage fashion, vintage style, vintage brands, vintage subcultures, retro, retro fashion, retro style Media Contact
Molly Thacker Georgetown University PhD United States Unaccompanied immigrant children, history of childhood, ethnic cultures in the United States, formations of race and racism, American Civil War Media Contact
Danielle Thom Museum of London PhD art, sculpture, print, decorative arts, ceramics, satire, London, material culture, 18th century, craft, contemporary, design, jewellery Media Contact
Sonja Tiernan Royal Irish Academy PhD Ireland Ireland, women, gender, sexuality, revolution and rebellion in Ireland Media Contact
Mary Valante Appalachian State University PhD Viking-Age, Ireland, Celt, women, economic, urban, textile, food, experiential Media Contact
Adeline Vasquez-Parra Université libre de Bruxelles PhD Women's history, gender and empowerment, British colonialism, empires, Acadians, Irish diaspora Media Contact
Olga Walker PhD student other credentials Irish female emigration to Britian 1948 - 1954 Magdalene Laundry research commenced 2018 Media Contact
Stephanie Walters The University of Southern Mississippi PhD Early America, Trans Atlantic, Atlantic World, Digital History, Digital Humanities, Omeka, Loyalism, Loyalists, American Revolution, War and Society Media Contact
Emily Webster University of Chicago other credentials British Empire Environmental history; British Empire; Imperial History; History of Science, Medicine and Technology; Public Health and Disease; Land-use Change, Ecology, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene. Media Contact
Laura Weinstein PhD Ireland 1
Janet Weston Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine PhD Britain, Ireland Health and medicine, sexuality, prisons, HIV/AIDS, mental health, mental capacity, crime, law, ethics Media Contact
Caitlin White Trinity College Dublin other credentials Ireland Irish History, ireland, memory, northern ireland, public history Media Contact
Amy Woodson-Boulton Loyola Marymount University PhD United Kingdom and Ireland Britain and Ireland, museums, art, industrialization, imperialism, history of anthropology, cultural history, British Empire Media Contact
Dr Elysée Yhuel Trinity College Dublin other credentials Medieval Brittany, Monasticism, Medieval History, Medieval Saints, Hagiography, Asceticism, Cultural Memory, Celtic History Media Contact
Gwenda Young University College Cork PhD USA; Ireland Hollywood cinema history; American cinema in the 1920s; Clarence Brown; film stardom; animals & film/media representations; amateur filmmaking Media Contact
Lili Zách Department of English Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary PhD Transnational history, Central Europe, Irish history, British Empire, borders and identities, humour studies, food history 1
Alexandra Zhirnova University of Cambridge PhD Media Contact
Shelby Zimmerman Trinity College Dublin other credentials Ireland Ireland, poverty, history of death, history of medicine, institutional history, Irish poor law, 19th century urban history 1