Staff

Mary Clancy

Lecturer

Course Co-ordinator, European Women’s Studies

MA (History) National University of Ireland, Galway
H Dip in Education, National University of Ireland, Galway
BA National University of Ireland, Galway

Office: Room 201, 10 Upper Newcastle Road
Telephone: 353 (0)91 495347
Email: mary.clancynuigalway.ie

Member of the Global Women's Studies Research Cluster

Profile

Since the late 1980s, Mary Clancy has lectured and written on the history of women and was one of the founding lecturers in women’s studies in Galway. She has worked also in adult education. Since 2003, she has represented the university on Athena, a European women’s studies network, working to research and publish teaching texts. She is co-editing the current publication, Teaching Empires. She has presented research papers in Ireland and internationally, contributes to radio and television documentaries and is a long-standing organiser of public conferences and events in labour history and women’s history. Member, Executive Committee, Women’s History Association of Ireland.

Teaching

Teaching interests include women in 19th and 20th century Ireland, historiography of women’s and gender history, emigration, work, the West of Ireland, European women’s studies, life stories and oral history, suffrage and citizenship. Undergraduate level: BA Connect, History (The Practice of History), Irish Studies (Irish Life and Culture) and also Access (Stair and History). Postgraduate level: MA in Global Women’s Studies, MA in Community Development and MA in History..

Research Interests

Research interests concern constructions and interpretations of public citizenship during periods of imperial distress, evolving agrarian, poor law and local democracy and post-women’s suffrage and post-revolutionary contexts, with attention to biographical narratives and the West of Ireland.

Selected Publications

Mary Clancy and Andrea Peto (eds), Teaching Empires: Gender and Transnational Citizenship in Europe (ATHENA3 Advanced Thematic Network in Women’s Studies in Europe, University of Utrecht and Centre for Gender Studies, Stockholm University, 2009). Available online here.

Contributing authors are from Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain. This book is part of a European Teaching with Gender series and is published with the support of the Socrates/Erasmus programme for Thematic Network Projects of the European Commission.

’Historical Dossier- Ireland National Report: A Commentary on the Work and Scope of Women’s Studies in Ireland’, The Making of European Women’s Studies. A work in progress report on curriculum development and related issues in gender education and research (Socrates Programme, European Commission). Volume IX, (Utrecht, 2009), pp 162-168.

This article provides an analytical overview of past developments and future possibilities in women’s studies in Ireland.

’Working lives, women’s lives: some research sources and possibilities’, Saothar. Journal of the Irish Labour History Society (2007), pp 65-69.

’Women of the West: campaigning for the vote in early twentieth century Galway, c.1911-c.1915 in Louise Ryan and Margaret Ward (editors) Irish Women and the Vote: Becoming Citizens (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2007), pp 45-59

’Occupied and earning: Child, Girl and Women Workers in County Donegal’ in Ciara Breathnach (editor), Framing the West: Images of Rural Ireland, 1891-1920 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2007), pp 215-231

’Memories, Histories and Narratives’ in Andrea Peto and Berteke Waaldjik, (editors) Teaching With Memories: European Women’s Histories in International and Interdisciplinary Classrooms (Galway: Women’s Studies Centre, NUI, Galway, 2006, 2007) pp 168-181

Co-editor, with Caitríona Clear, Tríona Nic Giolla Choille and Alan Hayes, Women’s Studies Review, Oral History and Biography, Volume Seven (Galway: Women’s Studies Centre, NUI, Galway, 2000)

’Shaping the Nation: Women in the Free State Parliament, 1923-1937’, in Yvonne Galligan et al (editors) Contesting Politics: Women in Ireland, North and South (Colorado: Westview Press, 1999), pp 201-218

’The “Western Outpost”: Local Government and Women’s Suffrage in County Galway, 1898-1918’, in Gerard Moran et al., (editors) Galway: History and Society: Interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county (Dublin: Geography Publications, 1996), pp557-587

“…it was our joy to keep the flag flying”: A Study of the Women’s Suffrage Campaign in County Galway’ in Pat Byrne et al., (editors) U.C.G. Women’s Studies Centre Review, Volume 3 (Galway:1995), pp 91-104

Co-editor and publisher, with John Cunningham and Alf MacLochlainn, The Emigrant Experience: papers presented at the Galway Labour History Seminar, 1990 (Galway: Galway Labour History Group, 1991), pp 142

’Aspects of Women’s Contribution to the Oireachtas debate in the Irish Free State, 1922 – 1937’ in Maria Luddy and Cliona Murphy (editors), Women Surviving: Studies in Irish Women’s History in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Dublin: Poolbeg, 1990), pp 206-232

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Supervision of Research

Dissertations supervised

M.A. in Global Women’s Studies (For submission in 2009)

Aoife Doran, 2009, ’The workhouse as gendered space: Ballyshannon Workhouse, with particular focus on the period c1896-c1920’.

Sinéad Hegarty, 2009, ’Influences and process: Irish women emigrating in the late nineteenth century’.

Co-supervising PhD dissertation

Carol Staunton (historical perspective re late 19th century and early 20th century and Boer war concentration camps).

M.A. in Women’s Studies

Grace Kilkelly, 2008, ’I hope she will be as happy in the future as she was in the days of Yore’: Mary Jane Yore 1862-1934’

Sheila McHugh, 2008, ’Boundary breakers and Bridge Makers: Public Identity of Women in Achill, 1906-1921’

Tara Thibeault 2008, ’The Impact of Negative Stereotyping on Women Social Welfare Recipients: A Study of the New Brunswick Area’.

Mary Mangan, 2006, ’“In Them Days” Oral history and personal narrative: the lives of working-class women in Blackrock township 1926-1975’.

Mairéad Ormhudha Ní Shéaghdha, 2006, ’Prompted to Action by Piety. Acknowledging the Contribution of Women Religious: Little Sisters Past and Present.

Susanna Sweeney, 2006, ’Women in Business; Heads for Hats.’

M.A. in Public Advocacy and Activism, Huston School of Film and Digital Media

Jayme Street, 2008, ’Creating Critical thinkers and Mobilising Support: An examination of the National Women’s Council of Ireland’s Campaign for Democratic Parity’.

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