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First Name
Sonja
Last Name
Tiernan
Country
New Zealand
State
Affiliation
University of Otago
Website URL
https://www.otago.ac.nz/ciss/people/otago716789.html
Keywords
Ireland, women, gender, sexuality, revolution and rebellion in Ireland
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About Me

Originally from Ireland, I graduated from University College Dublin, where I completed a Higher Diploma, a Masters Degree and was awarded a PhD in 2007. Before moving to New Zealand to take up the Eamon Cleary Chair of Irish Studies and co-direct the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Otago, I was Head of Department of History & Politics at Liverpool Hope University. I have held fellowships at the National Library of Ireland, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Notre Dame, the School of Irish Studies at Concordia University, and the Moore Institute at the National University of Ireland Galway.

Funding from internationally bodies includes, the Department of Foreign Affairs Ireland, the Irish Research Council, the National Endowment of the Humanities USA, the Royal Irish Academy, Trinity College Hub and the Canadian Irish Studies Foundation.

My research area is modern Irish and British social history, crime and punishment, as well as gender and women’s history. I am a peer reviewer for UCD Press and the journals Irish Historical Studies, History Research and Women’s History Review and an editorial board member of journals Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies and Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Feminist Studies in Culture and Politics.

My publications appear in leading journals and I have authored and edited eight books. My most recent monograph, The History of Marriage Equality in Ireland, was published by Manchester University Press in 2020.

A report authored by me and funded by the Irish Embassy in New Zealand, Mapping the Irish Community and People of Irish Heritage was published in December 2020.

Recent Publications

S. Tiernan, History of marriage equality in Ireland: A social revolution begins, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020.

S. Tiernan (ed) with introduction by President Michael D. Higgins, Eva Gore-Booth: Collected Poetry, Dublin: Arlen House Press, 2018.

S. Tiernan, The Political Writings of Eva Gore-Booth. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015.

J. Redmond, S. Tiernan, S. McAvoy, & M. McAuliffe (eds.), Gender and Sexual Politics in Modern Ireland. Irish Academic Press, 2015.

S. Tiernan, Eva Gore-Booth: An Image of Such Politics: Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012.

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Ireland
Expertise by Geography
Ireland, New Zealand, United Kingdom
Expertise by Chronology
7, 8, 9
Expertise by Topic
Gender, Human Rights, Rebellion & Revolution, Sexuality, Women, World War I