Engendering Ireland: New Reflections on Modern History and Literature

Sarah-Anne Buckley is Lecturer in History at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her research interests include the history of childhood and child welfare, nineteenth and twentieth-century Irish and British social history, gender history, and welfare history. Her recent monograph, The Cruelty Man: Child Welfare, the NSPCC and the State in Ireland, 1889–1956, was published by Manchester University Press in November 2013.

Laura Kelly is Lecturer in the History of Health and Medicine at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. She works on the social history of medicine in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ireland, with particular interests in gender, medical student culture, the medical profession, and, more recently, contraception and reproductive health.