Dr Ciaran O'Neill (TCD), 'Power and Powerlessness in Union Ireland'

Dr Ciaran O’Neill is Ussher Associate Professor in History at Trinity College Dublin and Deputy Director of the Long Room Hub, with research interests in the social and cultural history of Ireland and empire, education and elites, colonial legacies, modern literature, and public history in the long nineteenth century. He las led projects on ‘Seeing Ireland: Art, Culture, and Power in Paris 1922’, and on Trinity’s Colonial Legacies. His first monograph, Catholics of Consequence (2014) won the J.S. Donnelly Prize at the American Conference for Irish Studies. He is editor (with Finola O'Kane Crimmins) of Ireland, Slavery and the Caribbean (Manchester, 2023). His new book Power and Powerlessness in Union Ireland: Life in a Palliative State was published by Oxford University Press in 2024.

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