Final year PhD student in the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge | MSc in Literature and Society, University of Edinburgh | BA in English and History, University College Cork.
Current Research: Global Humanitarian Networks During the Great Irish Famine
Interests: Gender | Humanitarianism and Human Rights | Libraries | Public History | Revolutions | Travel Literature
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/aoife-oleary-mcneice
Blog posts:
- Replicating past mistakes? The Irish government, survivors, and the mother and baby homes report, 9 February 2021.
- Ford Box Bungalow, 12 December 2021.
- ‘Paying it forward’: Bonds of giving between Ireland and the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Navajo Nations from the Irish Famine to COVID-19, 26 May 2020.
- ‘Irish politics: past, present, future?‘, 18 February, 2020.
- ‘A Celebrity Chef’s Recipe for Famine Soup‘, 24 December 2019.
- ‘Current affairs or old news? DHP at the Festival of Ideas‘, 22 October 2019.
- ‘Shipwrecks and Sand dunes: A Brief History of Sable Island’, 18 June 2019.
- ‘Angela Davis in conversation: legacies, lessons and reflections on resistance, justice and hope’, 30 April 2019.
- ‘From the Jarrow Crusade to the Brexit Blues: historical protests and expressions of direct action’, 9 April 2019.
- ‘Moving Statues and Moving Away from the Catholic Church in Ireland’, 18 December 2018.
- ‘A Bank Cheque for £146.17.9’, 2018 Advent Calendar, 14 December 2018.
- ‘Mike Leigh’s Peterloo: Inequality and resistance in nineteenth-century Britain’, 20 November 2018.
Doing History in Public 