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Dr Elaine Farrell

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Elaine Farrell

Dr Elaine Farrell

School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics

Elaine’s research focuses on nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Irish gender and crime history. She has published on infanticide and concealment of birth, imprisonment and transportation, criminal tattoos, and women in WWI. She leads the AHRC-funded project, ‘“Bad Bridget”: Criminal and Deviant Irish Women in North America, 1838-1918’, with Dr Leanne McCormick (Ulster University). She is also currently working on a history of Irish female convicts in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

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  • e.farrell@qub.ac.uk
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Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of

  • Nineteenth-century social history
  • Crime history
  • Women’s history

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Public outreach & key achievements

  • Bad Bridget’ research project: https://badbridget.wordpress.com/
  • Won the National University of Ireland Publication Prize in Irish History, 2015, for her book
    ‘A most diabolical dead’: infanticide and Irish society, 1850-1900 (Manchester University Press) 
  • Involved in the ‘Mad or Bad’ museum exhibition, Armagh County Museum 2016-17
    http://www.historyarmagh.org/?p=521
  • Has featured on television programmes for BBC, Channel 4, RTÉ, and TG4

 


Research students

PhD Title ‘Protestant middle-class sibling relations in nineteenth-century Ulster’
Country Northern Ireland
   
PhD Title  ‘Clothing the poor in Ulster, c. 1850-1914’
Country  Northern Ireland 
   
PhD Title  ‘The institutional care of Ireland’s elderly female population, 1845-1908’
Country  Northern Ireland
   
PhD Title  ‘Cultural perceptions of Irish Roman Catholic women religious, 1849-1907’
Country  Northern Ireland

 


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