Sarah-Anne Buckley lectures in the Department of History, NUI Galway. Over the last number of years, she has held the title of College Scholar, Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences Scholar and Fr Martin Harney Fellow. She has been awarded a number of prestigious awards, including the John A. Murphy Prize in Irish History. She has recently finished a history of the Haematology Association of Ireland, and is currently preparing her book on the history of child welfare in Ireland for publication titled, Child Welfare, the NSPCC and the State in Ireland: 1889-1956. She has published chapters and articles on child neglect, poverty and class, as well as incest in nineteenth and twentieth century Ireland. Her forthcoming publications include an article on deserted wives and a chapter on the beginnings of the NSPCC in Ireland. Her next project will be a comparative history of child welfare in Ireland, Northern Ireland and Britain.

Books
Child Welfare, the NSPCC and the State in Ireland, 1889-1956, Manchester University Press (forthcoming 2012).
History of the Haematology Association of Ireland, 1977-2010, published privately (2011).

Articles
‘“Saver of the Children”: The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in Ireland, 1889-1900, Conference Proceedings from the 2010 Nineteenth-Century Ireland Conference on Philanthropy (forthcoming 2012).
'Deserted wives and deserting husbands: an analysis of State, press and voluntary responses to desertion in Ireland, 1920-1960’, Ordinary and Outcast: Poor Women, Family, and Sexuality in Ireland, 1840-1950, Palgrave (forthcoming, 2012).
‘“Found in a dying condition”: Nurse children, in Ireland, 1872-1952’, Conference Proceedings from the 2010 WHAI Conference, to be published by the Institute of Historical Research (forthcoming 2012).
‘Family and Power: Incest in Ireland, 1880-1950’, Power in History: from Medieval Ireland to the Post-Modern World, Historical Studies XXVII, Irish Academic Press (June 2011).
‘Child neglect, poverty and class: the NSPCC in Ireland, 1889–1939 – a case study’, Saothar: Journal of Irish Labour History, Vol.33, 2008

Book Reviews
Conor Reidy, Irelands Moral Hospital:The Irish Borstal System 1906-1956, published in Saothar: Journal of Irish Labour History, Vol.34, 2009
Moira Maguire, Precarious Childhoods in Post-independence Ireland, Irish Review, 2011.
James M. Smith, Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries and the Nation’s Architecture of Containment in Saothar: Journal of Irish Labour History, Vol.33, 2008

Newspaper Articles
“Persecuted for Poverty”, Irish Examiner, 27th May 2009.
“Report is shocking – and yet not surprising at all”, Irish Examiner, 15th July 2011.

Research interests include nineteenth and twentieth-century Irish and British social, political, and social policy history; women and gender; institutional histories; welfare history and the history of childhood and the family in Ireland.