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First Name
Ciaran
Last Name
McDonough
Country
Ireland
State
Affiliation
University College Dublin
Website URL
https://people.ucd.ie/ciaran.mcdonough
Keywords
Nineteenth-century Irish antiquarianism, Irish Studies, Intellectual History, nineteenth-century European antiquarianism, and Cultural Nationalism.
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PhD
PhD

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About Me

Ciaran McDonough is a graduate of the University of Wales, Bangor and the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century Irish antiquarianism. She is currently a Government of Ireland postdoctoral fellow in the School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore, UCD, where she works on her project Antiquarianism, Politics, and Sectarianism in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: A study of Ancient Laws and Institutes of Ireland (1852-1901).

Recent Publications

‘Folk Belief and Landscape in Connacht: Accounts from the Ordnance Survey Letters’, Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies, vol. 57, no. 1 (2019), pp. 56-69. https://doi.org/10.1080/04308778.2019.1592933

“‘Ireland and Denmark are specially to be named’: The Connections between Irish and Danish Antiquarians in the Nineteenth Century” in Heidi Hansson, Sara Dybris McQuaid, and Fionna Barber, eds., Ireland and the North (Bern: Peter Lang, 2019), pp. 17-39

‘Irish Archaeology’ in Joep Leerssen, Jan Rock, and Judith Jongsma, eds., Encyclopaedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018), pp. 1119-1120. Also available at: http://romanticnationalism.net/viewer.p/21/56/object/122-160326

‘“Death and Renewal”: Translating Old Irish Texts in Nineteenth-Century Ireland’, Studi Irlandesi: a Journal of Irish Studies, no. 4 (2014), pp. 101-11 https://doi.org/10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-14671

‘Learning Irish in Late-Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Belfast: the Antiquarian Influence’, Studia Celtica Fennica, Vol.  XI (2014), pp. 39-47. https://journal.fi/scf/article/view/45329

‘James Hardiman, ca.1782-1855: A Life’ in John Cunningham and Ciaran McDonough, eds., Hardiman and Beyond: Galway Arts and Culture, 1820-2020 (Melbourne: Arden/ASP, forthcoming 2020)

‘“Den gamla märkvärdiga staden Galway”: Nineteenth-Century European Travel Writing about Galway’, in John Cunningham and Ciaran McDonough, eds., Hardiman and Beyond: Galway Arts and Culture, 1820-2020 (Melbourne: Arden/ASP, forthcoming 2020)

Media Coverage
RTÉ Brainstorm ‘How the Famine was recorded in 19th century letters and journals’, 30 May 2019 https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2019/0527/1052072-how-the-famine-was-recorded-in-19th-century-letters-and-journals/
Country Focus
Ireland
Expertise by Geography
Ireland
Expertise by Chronology
19th century
Expertise by Topic
Book History, Literary History