Ciaran Toal
Ciaran Toal
Qualifications
BSc Hons Geography, MSc Environmental Planning
Postgraduate
Email: ctoal08@qub.ac.uk
Address
Room 02 041, Elmwood Building
School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology (GAP)
Queen’s University Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland, UK
Current Teaching:
GGY1005 - Human Geographies of the modern world.
GGY2028 - Contemporary approaches to geographical enquiry.
Current Research:
Space and spectacle: science and religion at the British Association
My PhD research builds on work on the historical geographies of knowledge, examining public encounters between science and religion that took place under the auspices of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. I'm paying attention to the role of rhetorical spaces and public spectacle in shifting and staging the boundaries between science and religion in the nineteenth century. Particular attention is given to the homiletic literature attached to the Association.
Case studies include the Cork (1843), Edinburgh (1850), Bath (1864), Bristol (1875) and Montreal (1884) meetings of the British Association, as well as an overview of the the sermons preached at the BAAS during the 1870s. SInce completing my PhD I have been working on an article on W. H. Dallinger in Montreal, 1884.
Fieldwork images related to the British Association:
Publications:
Article
Toal, C., ‘Preaching at the British Association for the Advancement of Science: sermons, secularisation and the rhetoric of conflict in the 1870s’, The British Journal for the History of Science 45, (2012), pp 75-95.
Articles - Non-peer reviewed.
Toal, C. 2011. 'The Ulster Hall, Belfast', BSHS Travel Guide, available at BSHS.org.uk Posted on Thursday 30th June 2011.
Toal, C. 2010. 'What a (t)wit!: Swift, Stella and the phrenologists.' Pue's Occurences: the Irish History Blog, available at Pue's Occurrences. Posted on Wednesday 3rd February 2010.
Toal, C. 2009. 'How science and faith grew up together.' Guardian: comment is free, available at Guardian Online. Posted on Sunday 26th April 2009.
Presentations
Toalc, C. 2011. 'After Tyndall: Science, Religion and the Bristol Meeting of the British Association.' Paper presented to the British Society for the History of Science, University of Exeter, Exeter, 14th -16th July, 2011.
Toal, C. 2011. 'After Tyndall’s ‘Belfast Address’: Science, Religion and the Bristol Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA).' Paper presented to the Royal Irish Academy's History of Science, Technology and Medicine in Ireland Panel, National Museum of Irelamd, Dublin, 19th April 2011.
Toal, C. 2010. 'Science, Religion and Space in Montreal.' Paper presented to the British Association for Canadian Studies Conference, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, 8th April 2010.
Toal, C. 2009. 'Science and Religion in the British Association: the BA in Ireland.' Paper presented to the British Society for the History of Science Postgraduate Conference, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, January 9th.
Awards
Prix du Québec- awarded to assist a research visit to Montreal, Québec.
Additional Information:
Member of the BSHS
Member of the BACS
