Dr. Georgina Laragy

I am an Irish historian focused largely on social history, in particular the history of suicide, death and poverty in nineteenth and twentieth century Ireland. I am also interested in the history of institutions, including workhouses, psychiatric hospitals, prisons and Magdalen asylums and teach a course on the public history of institutions of confinement. Before coming to Trinity College I worked at Queen's University in Belfast and Oxford Brookes University on two research projects related to the history of the Irish Poor Law. Prior to that I worked at the University of Limerick on a project exploring the medicalisation of maternity through general and psychiatric hospital records in early 20th century Ireland. I received my Ph.D. from NUI Maynooth in 2005. Part of my job involves working with the Glasnevin Trust at Glasnevin Cemetery and Museum developing their public history, education and research activities.

  19th century Irish history   20th century Ireland   Cemeteries   Death and burial   History of Institutions   Irish Social History   Public History