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Dr. Ciaran O'Neill

Associate Professor 19th Century History (History)
ARTS BUILDING
      
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Dr. Ciaran O'Neill

Associate Professor 19th Century History (History)
ARTS BUILDING

 Ciaran.ONeill@tcd.ie

 3531896 1405


  Elites and Education   Irish and British History 1800-1920   Irish Social History   Public History
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External Examiner (History and Politics), Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool 2019
Member: The Docklands Oversight and Consultative Forum. (DOCF) is a statutory body appointed by the Minister for Housing, Planning & Local Government. 2020
Chair of a Learned Society: President of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland 2014
Board Member of the Irish Humanities Alliance 2020-2025
Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
Finnish Basic Basic Basic
French Medium Basic Basic
Irish Fluent Medium Medium
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President: Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland 2014 2018
Founder member: Transnational Ireland Research Network 2012
American Conference for Irish Studies 2013
Irish Historical Studies 2011 2015
International Federation for Public History 2012
Georgina Laragy , Richard Legay , Ciaran O'Neill and Hannah K. Smyth, Public History in Global Perspective Inquiry, Exchange and Practice, Berlin, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025, 1 - 172pp, Book, PUBLISHED
Trinity"s Colonial Legacies: Transparency, Instrumentality, and Agency in an Engaged Research Project in, editor(s)Peter Bille Larsen, Markéta K"ížová , European University Legacies: Problematic Heritage and Contemporary Practice, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2025, pp67 - 95, [Mobeen Hussain, Ciaran O'Neill, Patrick Walsh], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Trinity's Colonial Legacies. Transparency, Instrumentality, and Agency in an Engaged Research Project in, editor(s)Peter Bille Larsen, Markéta Križová, , Dealing with Complex Heritage: Revisiting University Pasts in Contemporary Practice, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2025, pp67 - 95, [Patrick Walsh, Mobeen Hussain, Ciaran O'Neill], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
The Literary Americanisation of Ireland 1841-1925 in, editor(s)Fionnuala Walsh , America in Ireland: Culture and Society 1841-1925, Cambridge University Press, 2025, pp12 - 143, [Ciaran O'Neill], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Ciaran O'Neill, Complex solidarities: the public history of Irish and Native American allyship, Settler Colonial Studies, 2025, p1 - 26, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Ciaran O'Neill, Power and Powerlessness in Union Ireland: Life in a Palliative State, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024, 1 - 272pp, Book, PUBLISHED  URL
Ciaran O'Neill and S.Karly Kehoe, A Colony to Themselves: Scottish Highland Settler Colonialism in British North America, 1770"1804, Journal of British Studies, 2024, Notes: [https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2023.141], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Ciaran O'Neill and Finola O'Kane, Ireland, Slavery and the Caribbean; Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 1, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2023, 1 - 352pp, Book, PUBLISHED
In Search of Excess: Lambert Blair and his appetites in, editor(s)Ciaran O'Neill and Finola O'Kane , Ireland, Slavery and the Caribbean; Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2023, pp193 - 214, [Ciaran O'Neill], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Introduction in, Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean Interdisciplinary perspectives, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2023, pp1 - 18, [Ciaran O'Neill and Finola O'Kane], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  DOI
  

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O'Neill, Ciaran, Exhibiting irishness: empire, race, and nation, c.1850"1970, Folk Life, 2025, p1-2 , Review, PUBLISHED
Mobeen Hussain, Ciaran O'Neill and Patrick Walsh,, Draft Trinity Colonial Legacies Working Paper on TCD and Slavery, 2023, Working Paper, PUBLISHED
The Irish Artist in the World: Culture, Markets, and Modernity,' i in, editor(s)Marty Fahey , Who do We Say We Are? Irish art 1922 | 2022, South Bend, Indiana, Snite Museum of Art, 2022, pp42 - 53, [Ciaran O'Neill], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Ciaran O'Neill, 'The Public History of Slavery in Dublin', 24th Annual Gilbert Lecture, (N), Dublin City Library and Archive, 2022, 1 - 32, Digital research resource production, PUBLISHED
Ciaran O'Neill and Billy Shortall, 'Seeing ireland ', www.seeingireland.ie, 2022, -, Digital research resource production, PUBLISHED
Patrick Walsh, Ciaran O'Neill, Mobeen Hussain, Working Paper on Human Remains from Inishbofin held in the Haddon-Dixon collection at TCD, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2022, Working Paper, PUBLISHED
Ciaran O'Neill, 'Dublin's Lost Wetlands and the Technosphere,', SYSTEMS, Science Gallery Dublin, 2021, -, Exhibition, PUBLISHED
Debruyne, Christophe, Anne Kearns, Ciaran O'Neill, Mary Colclough, Laura Grehan, and Declan O'Sullivan(ed.), 13th ACM Web Science Conference 2021, DALIDA: Data Literacy Discussion Workshops for Adults." , 2021, 23-25 p, Proceedings of a Conference, PUBLISHED
Ciaran O'Neill, Review of Catholicism, Identity, and Politics in the Age of Enlightenment: The Life and Career of Sir Thomas Gascoigne 1745-1810., by Alexander Lock , Church History, 86, (3), 2017, p911-12 , Review, PUBLISHED
Ciaran O'Neill, 'Exhibition Catalogue Essay', The Foggy Dew, Dublin, RHA, 2016, 10 - 13, Exhibition, PUBLISHED

  


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Visiting Research Fellow, HEX (History of Experience), Tampere University, Finland (2025-26) 2025
Patrick B O'Donnell Visiting Professor, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, USA (Spring 2019) 5 months 2019
Burns Library Scholar, Boston College, USA (Fall/Winter, 2018) 5 months 2018
James S. Donnelly Sr. Prize for Best Book in History and the Social Sciences, ACIS 2015
Provost's Teaching Award, Trinity College Dublin 2015
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, University of São Paulo, Brazil - SPECTRESS Project - 3 months 2014
NUI Travelling Studentship 2007
Fellow of Trinity College Dublin 2019
Visiting CRC Fellow, St Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (Summer, 2018) 2018
EU-DARIAH Public Humanities Award (2016) 2016