Lindsey Earner-Byrne Explained

Lindsey Earner-Byrne
Known For:	Professor of Irish Gender history, Irish history author
Notable Works:	Mother and Child: Maternity and Child Welfare in Dublin, 1920s-1960s Letters of the Catholic Poor. Poverty in Independent Ireland, 1920-1940 The rape of Mary M.: A microhistory of sexual violence and moral redemption in 1920s Ireland Forgotten: The Widows of the Irish Revolution
Honorific Prefix:	Dr.

Lindsey Earner-Byrne is currently Professor of Contemporary Irish History at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and author of Irish history books.^[1]

Biography

Dr Lindsey Earner-Byrne is a historian focusing on modern Irish history. She was a lecturer in the School of History at University College Dublin. Her research has covered gender, health and welfare with a particular interest in sexual violence. Earner-Byrne became the SALI Chair of Irish Gender History at UCC in January 2021, and was the Professor of Irish Gender history at University College Cork.^[2] Earner-Byrne is on the Board of the Irish Manuscripts Commission. She's a member of the Royal Irish Academy.^{[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}

Bibliography

Books

• Mother and Child: Maternity and Child Welfare in Dublin, 1920s-1960s, Manchester, 2007
• Letters of the Catholic Poor. Poverty in Independent Ireland, 1920-1940, Cambridge University Press, 2017

Articles

• "The rape of Mary M.: A microhistory of sexual violence and moral redemption in 1920s Ireland", Journal of the History of Sexuality, (Jan. 2015)

Films

• Forgotten: The Widows of the Irish Revolution (RTÉ One, May 2022)^{[9] [10]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lindsey Earner Byrne, Professor of Contemporary Irish History . tcd.ie . 2024-01-26.
2. Web site: Lindsey Earner-Byrne Royal Irish Academy . 2023-09-30 . www.ria.ie . en.
3. Web site: Finn . Clodagh . Lindsey Earner-Byrne: Women's history has demonstrated that silence makes a noise of its own . Irish Examiner . en . 20 November 2021.
4. Web site: Earner-Byrne . Lindsey . Why were women omitted from modern Irish history? . . en . 18 March 2021.
5. Web site: Appointment of six new members to the Board of the Irish Manuscripts Commission (IMC) . www.gov.ie . 2 September 2021 . en . 5 February 2022.
6. Web site: Lindsey Earner-Byrne . Royal Irish Academy . en.
7. Web site: Lindsey Earner-Byrne . www.irishhumanities.com . Irish Humanities Alliance.
8. Web site: University College Cork . UCC . en.
9. Web site: Professor Lindsey Earner-Byrne - From the Cutting Room Floor: Locating Other Voices in Modern Irish History . 2023-09-30 . www.ucc.ie.
10. Earner-Byrne . Lindsey . 2022-03-08 . Why were women omitted from modern Irish history? . Raidió Teilifís Éireann . en.