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Dr Elaine Farrell
School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and PoliticsElaine’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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Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the field of
- Nineteenth-century social history
- Crime history
- Women’s history
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) http://www.nui.ie/awards/publications_prizes_grants.asp - 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 |