Gillian M. Doherty

Gillian M. Doherty, BA, PhD (UCC), is a lecturer in modern Irish history at University College Cork. She was manager of the MultiText Project, 2000–2002. Prior to this role, she was a Government of Ireland doctoral scholar in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 1997-2000. She was also a recipient of the William M. Markey Scholarship, University of Massachusetts 1995-1996. Her research interests include: nineteenth-century Irish history, cultural and intellectual; historiography; mapping and surveying; Irish-language culture and politics; the Irish diaspora in North America.

Her publications to date include:

The Irish Ordnance Survey: history, culture and memory (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2004); ‘Thomas Wyse and educational reform in the nineteenth century,’ in Decies: the Journal of the Waterford Archaeological and Historical Society, 58, Winter 2002; ‘The politics of travel writing,’ in Marita Foster, Larry Geary & J. J. Lee (eds), Essays on the Great Irish Famine, 2002; ‘An eye on the Survey: perceptions of the Ordnance Survey in Ireland, 1824-1842,’ in History Ireland, 9, no. 2 (Summer 2001) 37-41; ‘John O’Donovan and the Ordnance Survey,’ in Jim Walsh (ed), Sliabh Rua: a history of its people and places (Naas [Kildare] 2001) 345-71; ‘The Trinity Society, Sliabh Rua,’ibid, 404-12; ‘Spoliation of the past: the destruction of monuments andtreasure hunting in nineteenth-century Ireland,’ in Peritia 13 (1999) 154-72; ‘The Gaelic Revival in the US in the nineteenth century,’ Chronicon 2 (1998) 6: 1-34 (http://www.ucc.ie/chronicon); ‘A critical examination of a selection of travel writing produced during the Great Famine,’ in Chronicon 1 (1997) 1: 1-57 (http://www.ucc.ie/chronicon).

Articles: The Theatre Royal Incident, 1822.; Suppression of Catholic Association, 1825.; Catholic Rent, 1826.; O’Connell in Waterford.; What is Emancipation?.; Clare By-Election.; Meeting between Anglesey and O’Connell.; O'Connell’s Election Address, 1828.; Catholic Rent, 1829.; Discrimination against Catholics.; The Emancipation Bill.; Impressions of a Dublin Medical Officer.; The State of the Poor.; The Problem of Dublin Slums: A Catholic View.; Housing, Slums, & Poverty in Dublin, 1913.; Housing Report, Dublin, 1913.; The Poor of Dublin, 1913.; Worker’s Resentment Towards Employers.; Larkin Urges Strikers to Fight for their Rights.; Larkin Speaks to the Workers.; Police Baton Charge, Sackville St., 30 August 1913.; On the Eve of the Lockout, 30 August 1913.; The Irish Problem: Poverty & Lawlessness.; ‘An Orgy of Anarchy’.; Report of the Dublin Disturbances Commission, 1914.; Inquest and Funeral of James Nolan, 3 September, 1913.; Larkin Vows to Fight.; Larkin’s Speech to the Askwith Inquiry, 4 October 1913.; George Russell Condemns the Employers.; Archbishop Walsh on the ‘Save the Kiddies’ Campaign.; ‘Save the Dublin Kiddies’ Campaign: Clashes at the Port..; Connolly on the Origins of the Lockout.; Connolly Urges Strikers to Stand their Ground.; Defence Counsel for the Employers.; Connolly Urges Strikers to Stand Firm.; Connolly on the ‘Save the Dublin Kiddies’ Campaign.; The Worker’s Case.; In Defence of the Employers.; Mr Murphy’s ‘New Year’s Eve Speech’.; After the Lockout.; The Worker's Defence at the Askwith Inquiry, 4 October 1913.; Worker’s Defence at the Askwith Inquiry, 4 October 1913.; Parnell in Cork, January 1885.; Parnell in Wicklow, October 1886.; Opposition to Home Rule.; The Case Against Home Rule.; Parnell’s Election Manifesto to the Irish in Britain, November 1885.; Gladstone’s Speech on the First Home Rule Bill, 1886.; The Galway By-election of 1886—Document I.; The Galway By-election of 1886—Document II-IV.; The Galway By-election of 1886—Document V.; The Galway By-election of 1886—Document VI.; Parnell’s Speech on the Home Rule Bill, 1886.; First Meeting of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), November 1884.; Cusack on the importance of the Gaelic Athletic Association.; Origins of the Gaelic Athletic Association, 1884.; Social Impact of the GAA.; Parnell & the GAA, November 1884.; Archbishop Croke & the GAA, November 1884.; Croke Appeals for the Abolition of the Ban.; GAA Rules and Bans, 1885.; Opposition to the GAA.; GAA Central Committee Meeting, July 1885.; Home Rule Bill, 1886.; Home Rule—The Elections of 1885 & 1886; History of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA); The campaign for Catholic Emancipation, 1823–1829; The Synod of Thurles, 1850