Twitter link | @MeganLFMcAuley |
Bio | PhD Candidate in the Department of History, Maynooth University |
Keywords | social history; history of childhood; family history; local history; Irish history |
Nickname | Megan McAuley |
Membership Type | Graduate Historian |
Education | PhD, Maynooth University (2020-2024, ongoing) MA in Irish History, Maynooth University (2019-2020) BA in Nua-Ghaeilge and History (2016-2019) |
Employment | Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Maynooth University (2019-present) Research Assistant, Moynagh Lough Project, Maynooth University (2020-present) Research Assistant, Finders International Probate Genealogy (2022-present) |
Awards | John and Pat Hume Fee-Waiver Scholarship, MU (2020-present) Offaly History/P+H Egan History Scholarship (2020-present) National University of Ireland Denis Phelan Scholarship (2020/2021) Economic and Social History Society of Ireland New Researcher Prize (shared, 2022) |
Book Chapters | ‘The Darkest Part of a Dark History? Infanticide in Ireland: A Case Study of Donegal 1870–1950’ in Salvador Ryan (ed.) Birth and the Irish: a miscellany (Dublin, 2021) – co-authored with Dr Jennifer Redmond |
Peer Reviewed Journals | ‘The country people and the old people are great believers in old cures’: an examination of infancy, illness, and interment in the Schools’ Folklore Collection, 1937-8, History Studies: University of Limerick History Society, vol. 22 (2021), pp 65-82. |
Electronic Publications | ‘Babies, Beggars and Belligerents: A Case Study of Unidentified Death Records in Co. Donegal, 1870-1950’, Offaly History Blog (May, 2021) ‘”It never leaves my mind”: recalling the 1935 Arranmore Disaster’, RTÉ Brainstorm (Nov, 2022) ‘”A sadder sight it would be impossible to witnesss”: Criticism of the hiring fair and child labour in County Donegal in the early twentieth century’, Museum of Childhood Ireland Blog (Sep, 2023) |
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