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ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

2024

'Fearing Meningitis: Disease, Emotions and the Spotted Fever Epidemics of 1904-07', Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences.

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'Hunger and Starvation in Modern Ireland' in Máirtín Mac Lomaire and Dorothy Cashman (eds), Irish Food History: A Companion (EUT+ Academic Press).

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2023

Protocol: 'Severe Mental Health in Northern Ireland, Service Provision and Physical Health Outcomes: A Scoping Review of Evidence and Policy Protocol' (with Skoura, A., Breslin, G., Golden, S. M., Whitaker, P., Grant, K., Miller, I., Tully, M., Davidson, G. & Leavey, G.)

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2022

'Tea, Addiction and Late-Victorian Narratives of Degeneration, c.1860-1900', in Geoffrey Hunt, Tamar M.J. Antin and Vibeke Asmussen Frank (eds), Routledge History of Intoxication (Routledge)

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'Tea Mania', History Ireland, 30:2

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2021

‘Silence, Distance and Neutrality: The Politics of Emotional Distress during the Northern Irish Troubles’, Social History, 46.4

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'Ending the ‘Cult of the Broken Home’: Divorce, Children and the Changing Emotional Dynamics of Separating British Families, c.1945-90’, Twentieth Century British History, 32:2

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2020

‘Experiencing Hunger Striking: Remembering the Maze Prison Hunger Strikes’, Irish Review, 51

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2019

'Hunger Striking: The Global Context', History Ireland: Special Edition

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2018

‘The Gut-Brain Axis : Historical Reflections’, Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease, 20:2

 

'Bedwetting and the Problematisation of Youth in Britain and America, c.1800-1980’, Journal of Social History, 50:4 

 

‘Digesting in the Long Eighteenth Century’, in Sylvie Kleiman, Sophie Vassett and Rebecca Barr (eds), Galls and Guts: Entrails and Digestion in the Long Eighteenth Century (Manchester University Press)

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2017

'Starving to Death in Medical Care: Ethics, Food, Emotions and Dying in Britain and America, c.1980-2015', Biosocieties, 12:1

 

2016

‘Pain, Memory and Trauma in the Irish War of Independence: Remembering and Contextualising Irish Suffering’, in Fionnuala Dillane, Naomi McAreavey and Emilie Pine (eds), The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan)

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‘‘No Hanging Here’: The Persistence of the Death Penalty in Twentieth-Century Ireland’, in Lisa-Marie Griffith and Ciaran Wallace (eds), Grave Matters: Death and Dying in Dublin (Four Courts Press)

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'Nutritional Decline in Post-Famine Ireland, c.1815-1922', in Elizabeth Fitzpatrick and James Kelly (eds), Food and Drink in Ireland (Royal Irish Academy)

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2015

‘Suffragette Prison Experiences in Manchester and their Legacies’, in Camilla Røstvik and Louise Sutherland (eds), Suffragette Legacy: How Does the History of Feminism Inspire Current Thinking in Manchester? (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)

 

‘Impact: Mortality, Population and Emigration’, in Frank Rynne and Adam Price (eds), La Grande Famine en Irlande 1845-1852 (Belin) (*core text for French Aggregation External Anglais examination)

 

‘Nutritional Decline in Post-Famine Ireland, c.1815-1922’, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 115c

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2014

‘Food, Medicine and Institutional Life in the British Isles, c.1790-1900’, in Carol Helstosky (ed.), The Routledge History of Food (Routledge)

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2013

‘Feeding in the Workhouse: The Institutional and Ideological Functions of Food in Britain, c.1834-70’, Journal of British Studies, 52:4

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‘‘A Dangerous Revolutionary Force Amongst Us’: Conceptualising Working-Class Tea Drinking in the British Isles, c.1860-1900’, Cultural and Social History, 10:3

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‘‘A Prostitution of the Profession’? Forcible Feeding, Prison Doctors, Suffrage and Medical Ethics, 1909-14’, Social History of Medicine, 26:2

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‘Constructing Moral Hospitals: Childhood Health in Irish Reformatories and Industrial Schools, c.1851-1890’, in Alice Mauger and Anne Mac Lellan (ed.), Growing Pains: Childhood Illness in Ireland, 1750-1950 (Irish Academic Press)

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2012

‘The Chemistry of Famine: Nutritional Controversies and the Irish Famine c.1845-7’, Medical History, 56:4

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2011

‘Evangelicalism and the Early Vegetarian Movement in Britain, c.1847-1860’, Journal of Religious History, 35:2

 

2010

‘Representations of Suicide in Urban North-West England c.1870-1910: The Formative Role of Respectability, Class, Gender and Morality’, Mortality, 15:3

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‘The Mind and Stomach at War: Stress, British Society and the Second World War’, Medical History, 54:1

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2009

‘Necessary Torture? Digestive Physiology, Vivisection, the Suffragette Movement and Responses to New Forms of Clinical Practice in Britain c.1870-1920’, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 64:3

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