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I have been researching, writing, and speaking on County Monaghan coroner, William Charles Waddell and his casebooks for twenty-one years.
Author of Melancholy madness: A coroner’s casebook (2003), I expanded my research to complete my PhD at Queen’s University Belfast in 2019. My interests include nineteenth-century Irish history with special focus on the Famine, using coroners’ reports to reveal unique aspects of social and political history. Currently, I have several works pending publication and look forward to their release.
Areas of expertise
The administrative, social and political history of the coroner in nineteenth century Ireland; investigation of death and murder; disease, criminology and local administrative politics; County Monaghan social and political history; the Bath Estate in County Monaghan.
The Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Irish History
The Irish Legal History Society
British Association for Irish Studies
The Royal Society for Arts, Manufacture and Commerce
Irish Association of Professional Historians
The Economic and Social History Society of Ireland
Irish History at Queen’s University Belfast
EFACIS: European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies
The Institute for Historical Research, London
The Clogher Historical Society
Publications
Books
The Irish Coroner: Death, Murder and Politics (1846-78) [Pending TBD]
A Coroner’s Casebooks (1846-77): The Inquests of William Charles Waddell (Vols. 1-3) [Irish Manuscripts Commission, TBD]
Melancholy Madness: A Coroner’s Casebook (Mercier Press, 2003)
Book Chapters
Property, privilege and politics: A history of the coroner in pre-Famine Ireland (1801 to 1846),Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Irish History series (Liverpool University Press, 2020). This chapter examines the function, status and qualifications required for men serving in the role of coroner in Ireland in the first half of the nineteenth century. It considers the legislation imposed by the administration and this contested form of authority.
