NUI Galway logo
Skip to navigation Skip to content
  • Gaeilge
  • Normal Font Size
  • Large Font Size
  • View High Contrast version of site
  • View High Contrast version of site
  • Students & staff
  • Library | 
  • Campus map | 
  • Bilingual campus | 

Quick Finder

Students

Blackboard StudentMail Student Contact Centre Fees & Grants Exams Timetables
Library Student Services Map Parking Student Volunteering Students' Union.

Staff

StaffMail WebMail (MIS) Intranet Campus Directory Agresso Academic Records Human Resources
Academic Term Dates Information Solutions & Services Buildings & Services Committees' Intranet Service Desk
Students
Staff
Colleges & schools
Research
  • Research areas
  • Facilities
  • Spotlight on research
  • People
    • About Researcher Profiles
  • Research office
  • People
  • Humanities
Print Email

Dr. Niall Ó Ciosáin B.A., Ph.D.

Contact Details

Title Senior Lecturer
Address Dept. of History
Room 410, Tower 1
Arts/Science Building
Nui Galway
Telephone: Ext. 3019
Email:
ei.yawlagiun@niasoico.llain

 

My Photograph

Biography:

Niall was born in Dublin and holds a BA from Trinity College Dublin and a PhD from the European University Institute, Florence

Books

Niall Ó Ciosáin (1997) Print and Popular Culture in Ireland 1750-1850. Basingstoke: Macmillan. [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (2010) Print and Popular Culture in Ireland 1750-1850 (Illustrated paperback edition). Dublin: Lilliput Press. [Details]

Book Chapters

Ó Ciosáin, N. (1990) 'Printed Popular Literature in Irish: presence and absence'' In: Daly,M.; Dickson,D (eds). The Origins of Popular Literacy in Ireland: Language Change and Educational Development 1700-1920 (Dublin: TCD and UCD, 1990). [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (1995) 'Dia, Bia agus na Sasanaigh: an Mistéalach agus íomhá an Ghorta'' In: Póirtéir,C (eds). Gnéithe den Ghorta Baile Átha Cliath: Coiscéim. [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (1995) ''Printing in Irish and O'Sullivan's Miscellany'' In: Long,G (eds). G. Long (ed.), Books Beyond the Pale: Provincial Printing in Ireland (Dublin: Rare Books Group of the Library Association of Ireland 1996). -: -. [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (1996) 'Boccoughs and God's poor: deserving and undeserving poor in Irish popular culture'' In: Foley,T.; Ryder,S (eds). Ideology and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (1998) 'Cumainn rúnda agus seicteachas'' In: Ó Tuathaigh, G (eds). Éirí Amach 1798 in Éirinn (Indreabhán, Co. na Gaillimhe: Cló Iar-Chonnachta. [Details]
Niall Ó Ciosáin (1998) ''Was there silence abut the Great Famine?'' In: S. Briggs (ed.), Reviewing Ireland. Bath: Salis Press. [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (1999) 'The Irish Rogues: chapbooks and popular culture'' In: Donnelly,J.S.; Miller,K (eds). Popular Culture in Ireland 1650-1850. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N., McBride,I. (2001) ''Famine memory and the popular representation of scarcity'' In: Memory and Commemoration in Irish History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (2004) 'Creating a new reading public?: Printing in Irish 1880-1920'' In: Hutton,C (eds). Clare Hutton (ed.), The Irish Book in the Twentieth Century. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (2005) ''Introduction'' In: Ó Ciosáin,N (eds). Niall Ó Ciosáin (ed.), Explaining Change in Cultural History: Historical Studies XXIII. -: Dublin: UCD Press. [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (2005) ''Gaelic culture and language shift'' In: Geary,L.; Kelleher,M (eds). Nineteenth-century Ireland. A guide to recent research. -: UCD Press. [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (2007) 'Language, print and the Catholic church in Ireland, 1700-1900'' In: McNamara,D (eds). Donald McNamara (ed.), Which Direction Ireland?. -: Cambridge Scholars Press. [Details]
O Ciosain, N.B. (2009) '‘The Great Irish Famine’' In: David Forsyth (ed.), The Encyclopaedia of Human Rights. -: -. [Details]
O Ciosain, N.B. (2011) '‘Oral culture, literacy and the growth of a popular readership, 1800-1850’' In: The Oxford History of the Irish Book Vol. 4: the nineteenth century. -: -. [Details]
O Ciosain, N.B. (2011) '‘Pedlars and book distribution’' In: The Oxford History of the Irish Book Vol. 4:: the nineteenth century. -: -. [Details]
Niall Ó Ciosáin (2011) '’Almanacs in the nineteenth century’' In: The Oxford History of the Irish Book Vol. 4: the nineteenth century. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Details]
O Ciosain, N.B. '‘Popular Song, Readers and Language: printed anthologies of songs in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, 1780-1820’' In: Michael Brown, Catriona Kennedy, John Kirk, and Andrew Noble (eds.), United Islands? Multi-Lingual Radical Poetry and Song in Britain and Ireland, 1770-1820. -: -. [Details]
O Ciosain, N.B. '‘Print literacy in Irish in the nineteenth century’' In: The Oxford History of the Irish Book Vol. 2. -: -. [Details]
O Ciosain, N.B. (2012) '‘Pious Miscellanies and Spiritual Songs: devotional publishing and reading in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, 1760-1900’' In: James Kelly and Ciarán MacMurchaidh (eds.), Linguistic and Cultural Frontiers: English and Irish, 1650-1850. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details]
O Ciosain, N.B. (2012) '‘Bacaigh agus Boccoughs. Fianaise ar chultúr na Gaeilge sa naoú céad déag’' In: Diarmuid Ó Giolláin agus Stiofán Ó Cadhlaidh (ed.) Léann an Dúchais - Féilscríbhinn Ghearóid Uí Chrualaoich. Cork: Cork University Press. [Details]
O Ciosain, N.B. 'The print cultures of the Celtic languages 1700-1900 (to be published by the Department of Celtic, University of Glasgow)' In: [Details]
 

Peer Reviewed Journals

Ó Ciosáin, N. (1994) 'Hungry Grass: The New Famine Museum in Strokestown''. Circa: Contemporary Visual Culture In Ireland, 68 :24-27. [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (1996) ''Was there 'Silence' about the Famine?''. Irish Studies Review, 13 :7-8. [Details]
Niall Ó Ciosáin (2004) '‘Approaching a folklore archive: the Irish Folklore Commission and the memory of the Great Famine’'. Folklore, . [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (2004) 'Print and Irish, 1570-1900: An exception among the Celtic languages?''. A Journal Of Irish And Irish-American Studies, 5 :73-106. [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (2005) ''Bibliotheque Bleue, Verte Erin: some aspects of popular printed literature in France and Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries''. Lisa, 3 (1). Available Online [Details]
Niall Ó Ciosáin (2010) '‘The Poor Inquiry and Irish Society - a consensus theory of truth’'. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, . [Details]
Niall Ó Ciosáin (2011) ''Old languages in a New Country: Publishing and Reading in the Celtic Languages in Nineteenth-Century Australia''. Australian Journal Of Irish Studies, . [Details]
 

Conference Publications

O CIOSAIN, N. (1998) Boccoughs and God's poor: Deserving and undeserving poor in Irish popular culture IDEOLOGY AND IRELAND IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY , pp.93-99 [Details]
                       

Conference Paper

Ó Ciosáin, N. (1998) John Mitchel, 1848 and the memory of the Great Famine'. Comóradh 1848'. NUI, Galway: Conference Paper [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (1998) The printed publicity of the United Irishmen'. Wolfe Tone in Kirwan's Lane', Galway Labour History Group Conference. Conference Paper [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (1998) 'The European Union and Northern Ireland' - The EU: regionalism and expansion, University Of Salamanca. Universidad de Salamanca: Conference Paper [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (1998) Print and the Celtic languages'. The Long Eighteenth Century', British Library Association Rare Books Group Annual Study Conference. TCD: Conference Paper [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (1998) Printed propaganda campaigns in Ireland 1790-1820'. AGM, Library Association of Ireland Rare Books Group. Conference Paper [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (1999) 'Famine narratives in the folklore archives: a typology'. Economic and Social History Society of Ireland annual conference. Royal Irish Academy, Dublin: Conference Paper [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (1999) Bacaigh, déirce agus paidreacha sa naoú céad déag'. An Cumann le Béaloideas Éirinn. UCD: Conference Paper [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (1999) The Great Famine in popular memory'. Seminar in Irish History. Hertford College, Oxford: Conference Paper [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (1999) Creating a new reading public?: Printing in Irish 1880-1920'. Conference on 'The Book in Ireland in the Twentieth Century', Institute for Advanced Study. University of London: Conference Paper [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (2000) Working with an archive of oral historical narrative: the Great Famine in popular memory'.. Conference on 'Folklore and the Historian'. Warburg Institute, London: Conference Paper [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (2000) 'Famine proselytism in popular memory'. American Committee of Irish Studies Conference. University of Limerick: Conference Paper [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (2001) Defining and displacing the popular: tract societies in 19th-century Ireland'. Social History Society of Britain annual conference, 'Cultures and Sub-Cultures: Rethinking Histories of Culture'. Belfast: Conference Paper [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (2002) *'Conceptualising Gaelic culture in the nineteenth century'. American Committee of Irish Studies, Mid-Atlantic section Conference, Lehman College (Invited plenary lecture). City University of New York: Conference Paper [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (2004) 'Almanacs and the public sphere in nineteenth-century Ireland'. Economic and Social History Society of Ireland annual conference. Conference Paper [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (2004) Print and the Irish language'.. Martha Fox Memorial Lecture. New York University, Boston College, Chicago Cultural Centre: Conference Paper [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (2004) ‘Almanacs and the public sphere in nineteenth-century Ireland’. Economic and Social History Society of Ireland annual conference. Conference Paper [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (2004) Bibliothèque Bleue, Verte Erin: popular literature in France and Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries'.. L'Histoire du livre en Irlande', Troyes (Invited plenary lecture). France: Conference Paper [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (2004) State and surveillance in Ireland in the 1830s'.. Research seminar. University of Notre Dame, Indiana: Conference Paper [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (2006) Printing in the Celtic Languages, 1700-1900: contrasting fortunes'. American Committee for Irish Studies, Mid-Atlantic section conference (invited plenary lecture). Conference Paper [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (2007) Print culture in Irish and other Celtic languages, 1750-1830'. Print Culture in the Eighteenth Century: Regional, National and International Dimensions'. University of Limerick: Conference Paper [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (2007) The print culture of the Celtic languages, 1700-1900'. The Angus Matheson Memorial Lecture, Dept. of Celtic. University of Glasgow: Conference Paper [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (2008) The cultures of print in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, 1700-1900'. Print culture after the Union: the impact of 1707 and 1800 on the print culture of Ireland and Scotland'. UCD: Conference Paper [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (2008) Popular attitudes to poverty and welfare in early nineteenth-century Ireland'. Workshop on Poor Relief, Charity and Self Help. Oxford Brookes University: Conference Paper [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (2009) Hymns, songs and subscription lists: Gaelic and Irish in print'. Centre for the History of the Book, University of Edinburgh. University of Edinburgh: Conference Paper [Details]
                                             

Media

O Ciosain, N.B. (2008) Alexander Nimmo (Documentary by LMDOC productions, 2008). Media [Details]
O Ciosain, N.B. (2009) Ghosts along the road (2009). Media [Details]
O Ciosain, N.B. (2009) Rapairí (6-part series on Irish outlaws, Scun Scan productions), broadcast Nov-Dec 2009. Media [Details]
O Ciosain, N.B. (2010) Talking History, Newstalk radio (June 2010). Media [Details]
       

Other Item

Ó Ciosáin, N. (1996) Introduction to Poverty before the Famine. County Clare 1835 . Other Item [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (2003) Printing in Irish' . The Encyclopaedia of Ireland. Other Item [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (2004) ‘Literacy and popular culture’ . Encyclopaedia of Irish History and Culture. Other Item [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (2004) ‘Chapbooks and popular culture’ in James Donnelly (ed.), 'Encyclopaedia of Irish History and Culture'. Other Item [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (2006) Foreword to Ros Kavanagh, Place of Work. A journey through 175 years of the Office of Public Works (Exhibition catalogue) (OPW 2006). Other Item [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (2008) Lonesome without them: popular attitudes to poverty and charity in early nineteenth-century Ireland'. Proceeding of the Charity and Self-help workshop. Oxford Brookes University: Other Item Available Online [Details]
                     

Reviews

Ó Ciosáin, N. (1988) J.R.R. Adams, The Printed Word And the Common Man: Popular Culture in Ulster 1600-1900 . Irish Economic and Social History. Reviews [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (1993) The Blasket Island Literature' . Irish Economic and Social History. Reviews [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (1999) Round towers and square holes: exoticism in Irish culture' . Irish Historical Studies. Reviews [Details]
Ó Ciosáin, N. (2008) Review of Claudia Kinmonth, 'Irish Rural Interiors in Art' in Irish Historical Studies XXXVI. Reviews [Details]
Niall Ó Ciosáin (2008) 'Missing Pieces', review of Michael Murphy & Jan Smaczny (eds), 'Music in Nineteenth-Century Ireland', in The Journal of Music in Ireland 8. Reviews [Details]
               

Workshops

O Ciosain, N.B. (2006) ‘Printing in the Celtic Languages, 1700-1900: contrasting fortunes’American Committee for Irish Studies, Mid-Atlantic section conference October 2006 (invited plenary lecture). Workshops [Details]
O Ciosain, N.B. (2006) ‘114 commissions and 60 select committees: phantom figures from a surveillance state’City University of New York graduate centre, October 2006. Workshops [Details]
O Ciosain, N.B. (2006) ‘114 commissions and 60 select committees: phantom figures from a surveillance state’ Humanities Institute of Ireland, UCD, October 2006; NUI, Galway, September 2006. Workshops [Details]
O Ciosain, N.B. (2008) Workshop on Poor Relief, Charity and Self Help, Oxford Brookes University, February 2008. Workshops [Details]
O Ciosain, N.B. (2008) ‘The Poor Inquiry: a consensus theory of truth?’ Royal Historical Society Symposium, 'Poverty and welfare in Ireland c.1833-1948', Queen's University Belfast, June 2009. Workshops [Details]
O Ciosain, N.B. (2009) 'Printed song collections in Scottish Gaelic and their subscribers' - United Islands: Multi-Lingual Radical Poetry and Song in Britain and Ireland, 1770-1820, Queen's University Belfast. Workshops [Details]
O Ciosain, N.B. (2011) 'Is literacy language specific?' Research seminar, Newman College, University of Melbourne. Workshops [Details]
                           

Business & industry

  • >> Helping you
  • >> Partner with us
  • >> Future technologies
  • >> Conference Centre
  • >> Business Innovation Centre
  • >> TTO News
  • >> Our Team
  • >> Contact Us

Alumni, friends, & supporters

  • >> News and events
  • >> Reunion
  • >> Foundation
  • >> Get in touch
  • >> Alumni services
  • >> Alumni Group Discount Schene

Research

  • >> Research areas
  • >> Facilities
  • >> Spotlight on research
  • >> People
  • >> Research office

Community engagement

  • >> About engagement
  • >> Community activities
  • >> Learning with community
  • >> Community partnerships
  • >> Outreach

Courses

  • >> Undergraduate courses
  • >> Postgraduate taught courses
  • >> Postgraduate research programmes
  • >> Adult & continuing education
  • >> How to apply
  • >> Fees & funding
  • >> Modes of study
  • >> Order a prospectus
  • >> Open days

About Us

  • >> News & events
  • >> Jobs
  • >> Press
  • >> Contact Us
  • >> Who we are
  • >> University Management
  • >> The campus
  • >> Gift shop
  • >> Open days

Student life

  • >> Accommodation
  • >> Financial matters
  • >> Why choose NUI Galway
  • >> About Galway
  • >> Campus activities
  • >> Student support
  • >> Study abroad
  • >> International students
  • >> Mature students
  • >> Students with disabilities
  • >> Access Students

Colleges & schools

  • >> College of Arts, Social Sciences, & Celtic Studies
  • >> College of Business, Public Policy, & Law
  • >> College of Engineering & Informatics
  • >> College of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences
  • >> College of Science
  • >> Adult & Continuing Education

  • National University of Ireland, Galway
  • University Road, Galway, Ireland. T +353 91 524411
  • Disclaimer
  • Privacy
  • Copyright
  • Contacts & enquiries
  • Accessibility