Monographs and Selected Articles
Nuns in Nineteenth-century Ireland (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1987), 220 pp

'Homelessness, Poverty and Crime in Galway 1850-1914' Galway Archeological and Historical Society Journal Vol 50 (1998), pp.117-34.

Women of the House: women's household work in Ireland 1921-61: experiences, memories, discourses (Irish Academic Press 2000) 281 pp.

‘I Can Talk About It, Can’t I?’ The Ireland Maura Laverty Desired, 1942-1946’ in Women’s Studies: an interdisciplinary journal (University of California), Vol. 30, No.6 (2001), pp.819-836.

‘Hardship, help and happiness in narratives of Irish women of the house’ in Oral History;journal of the [British] Oral History Society, Vol. 31, No.2 (Autumn 2003), pp. 33-42.

Social Change and Everyday Life in Ireland 1850-1922 (Manchester University Press 2007) 196pp.

‘The Minimum Rights of Every Woman: Irish women’s changing appearance 1946-66’ Irish Economic and Social History Vol. XXXV (2008), pp. 68-80.

Changing ‘everyday life’ in Ireland 1850-1950 with particular attention to public health, changing family structures, non-agricultural work, gender, clothes, housing.

Women in nineteenth and twentieth-century Ireland

Vagrancy and genderfrom about 1780, in Ireland and Britain.

Women’s print media and women’s consumption, twentieth-century Britain, Ireland and north America,

The novelist, broadcaster, journalist, playwright and cookery writer Maura Laverty (1907-1966).

I am also committed to the development of oral history as a rigorous and rewarding corroborative research method.