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Michelle McCann, PhD.

2019

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Email	michelle.mcgoffmccann@gmail.com
Twitter link	https://twitter.com/mcgoffmccann
Facebook link	https://www.facebook.com/michelle.mcgoffmccann
Bio	I am a global marketing professional currently working as a chief marketing officer with over two decades of experience. I have lectured and presented on various topics including nineteenth century Irish History, marketing, and business, editing and publishing, creative writing, public speaking, confidence building and career guidance. My Linkedin Profile 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.
Keywords	nineteenth century; coroner; administrative history; presbyterian history; death investigation; murder; juries; social history; Famine; County Monaghan; Bath Estate; Farney;

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Nickname	Michelle McCann, PhD.
Membership Type	Professional Historian

Experience

Education	Queen’s University Belfast, PhD in History (2019) St. Mary’s University, Twickenham MA in Irish Studies (2014) Binghamton University, New York, BA in English and Rhetoric (1994) State University of New York Broome, A.B.A. in Business Administration and Marketing (1992)
Employment	My LinkedIn Profile and Experience
Consultancy work	The Irish Famine Lecture Series: The Importance of the Coroner During the Great Irish Famine Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council Watch here Death Investigation during the Great Irish Famine: The coroner and the inquest Institute for Irish Studies: Queen’s University Belfast Watch here The Irish Coroner: Death, Murder and Politics in Co. Monaghan, 1846-78 The History Show with Myles Dungan (NewsTalk) Watch here
Committees & Associations	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
Other activities	Talking History with Patrick Geoghegan: July Books Special Listen here Pat Kenny: NewsTalk Listen here

Publications

Books

The Irish Coroner (1846-78): Death, Murder and Politics in Co. Monaghan (1846-78) [Four Courts Press, July 2023]

A Coroner’s Casebooks (1846-77): The Inquests of William Charles Waddell (Vols. 1-3) [Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2024]

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), Figures of Authority in Nineteenth Century Ireland, 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.

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