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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   History of education   Irish and British History 1800-1920   Irish History   Irish Social History   Literature   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
States of Modernity: Forging Ireland in Paris 1922 | 2022. In 2021-22 I was part of an initiative organised by Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, as part of the Decade of Centenaries Programme. This was multi-partner project, involving TCD, Centre Culturel Irlandais, University of Notre Dame, and the Department of Foreign Affairs. I was part of the standing committee. 2022
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 Humanities Alliance 2020 2025
Irish Historical Studies 2011 2015
International Federation for Public History 2012
Ciaran O'Neill and Billy Shortall, Seeing Ireland: Art, Culture, and Power in Modern Ireland, South Bend, IN, USA, University of Notre Dame Press, 2026, 1 - 224pp, Book, PUBLISHED
Irish Art in Transnational Context in, editor(s)Ciaran O'Neill and Billy Shortall , Seeing Ireland: Art, Culture, and Power in Modern Ireland, South Bend, IN, USA, 2026, pp1 - 14, [Ciaran O'Neill and Billy Shortall], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Artwashing The Nation Brand: The Instrumentalization of Art during the Decade of Centenaries in Ireland, 2012-2023 in, editor(s)Ciaran O'Neill and Billy Shortall , Seeing Ireland: Art, Culture, and Power in Modern Ireland, South Bend, IN, USA, University of Notre Dame Press, 2026, pp165-188 - [Ciaran O'Neill], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Ciaran O'Neill and Juho Pekkarinen, Returning the Dead: the experience of repatriation and the heritage of racial science in Finland and Ireland, International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2026, Journal Article, SUBMITTED
Ciaran O'Neill, Finola O'Kane, and Chris Nikkel, Rotten Roots: The Colonial Genealogies of Irish Enslavers, The History of the Family, 2026, Journal Article, SUBMITTED
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 Krížová , 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  TARA - Full Text
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
  

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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, Catholicism, Identity, and Politics in the Age of Enlightenment: The Life and Career of Sir Thomas Gascoigne 1745"1810. By Alexander Lock . Studies in Modern British Religious History 34. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2016. x + 255 pp. £60.00 cloth., Church History, 86, (3), 2017, p911 - 913, p911-913 , Review, PUBLISHED

  


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Award Date
Visiting Research Fellow, HEX (History of Experience), Tampere University, Finland (2025-26) 2025
TCD Cross-Institutional Recognition Award for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion 2026
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