Staff

Mary Clancy

Lecturer

Course Co-ordinator, European Women’s Studies
Co-ordinator, BA with Global Women’s Studies, Year 3

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

Office: Room 202, 10 Upper Newcastle Road
Telephone: 353 (0)91 495347
Email: mary.clancynuigalway.ie

Member of the Global Women's Studies Research Cluster
Member of the Gender, Discourse and Identities research group of Gender ARC, a joint NUI Galway-UL research network
Member of ATGENDER, the European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation
Currently joint editor, Saothar: Journal of the Irish Labour History Society

Profile

Mary Clancy has researched, lectured and written on Irish women’s suffrage, politics and historical sources since the 1980s, is a founding lecturer in women’s studies and has served on the executive of the Women’s History Association of Ireland (2009-2012). She is a founding member of Galway Labour History and is Honorary President, Irish Labour History Society. She has presented conference papers in Ireland, England, Canada, the United States and various European countries. She contributes to radio and television documentaries and public history projects, through the medium of Irish and English. Since 2003, she has participated in European research organisations and she is a founder member of ATGENDER, the European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation. She is currently joint editor of Saothar: Journal of the Irish Labour History Society.

TEACHING

Undergraduate: BA with Global Women’s Studies, European Women’s Studies, The Practice of History. Main topics: suffrage, politics, life-stories, emigration, work, imperialism, the poor law.

Postgraduate: MA in Gender, Globalisation and Rights; MA in History. Thesis supervision: research relating to women’s history and gender.

Research Interests

Research in gendered interpretations and contexts of citizenship especially as constructed during periods of imperial and national crisis; research in life stories through the media of text, image, artefact, words; gender and labour (sweated, domestic, rural and emigrant); the West of Ireland.

Selected Recent Publications

Clancy, M. Book Review, Poverty and Welfare in Ireland 1838-1948, in Critical Social Policy, 2012, 32 (3), 479-80

Clancy, M. & Cunningham, J. (editors), Saothar 36: Journal of the Irish Labour History Society. Women: Special Issue (2011).

Clancy, M. & Peto, A. (editors), Teaching Empires: Gender and Transnational Citizenship in Europe (Utrecht, Stockholm, 2009)

Clancy, M. ’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 (2007)

Clancy, M. ’Occupied and earning: Child, Girl and Women Workers in County Donegal’ in Ciara Breathnach (editor), Framing the West: Images of Rural Ireland, 1891-1920 (2007)

Recent conference papers and organising

Clancy, M. ’Recruiting peace and war: gender and public agency during the First World War’, The Politics of Location Revisited: 8th European Feminist Research Conference, Budapest, Hungary, 17-19 May, 2012

Clancy, M. ’Voting for women in Ireland, 1912-1922: A Place for Ada English’, Ada English Summer School, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway, 5 May, 2012

Clancy, M; Byrne, A Clear, C (organisers). Workshop: Gender, Identities and Discourses: Art, Archives and Public Sphere: Memories in the West of Ireland, Moore Institute, NUI, Galway, 9 March, 2012

Clancy, M. Organiser and Chair, Gender ARC Public Lecture, Professor Diane Negra (UCD), ’Gendering the Recession in Ireland’, Moore Institute, 17 February, 2012

Clancy, M. ’Analysis of Philippa Fawcett’s Diary of a visit to Ireland with her mother, 4 – 14 April, 1893’, Women’s History Network Conference, London, 9-11 September, 2011

Clancy, M. Organiser and Chair, Public Talk, Professor Clare Midgley, President, International Federation for Research in Women’s History, on ’Imperial feminist or transnational social reformer: Mary Carpenter and India’, 15 April, 2011, NUI, Galway.

Dissertations supervised

PhD

Carol Staunton (joint supervisor with Professor Sinisa Malesevic, UCD). Discourses of rape and genocide, Boer War and Bosnian War.

M.A.

Kimberly Ballaro, ’Kathleen Clarke and Irish Revolutionary Period: 1907-1923’, (2010)

Elaine Sabina Hanley, ’Women’s Participation in the Irish War of Independence and Civil War’, (2010)

Aoife Morrow, ’that’s the way things were’ Rural working class women in mid 20th century Donegal: a Ballyshannon Story. (2010)

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

Sinéad Hegarty. Influences and process: Irish women emigrating in late nineteenth century. (2009)

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

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

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

Tara Thibeault. The Impact of Negative Stereotyping on Women Social Welfare Recipients: A Study of the New Brunswick Area’ (2008)
Mary Mangan. “In Them Days”: oral history and personal narrative; the lives of working-class women in Blackrock township 1926-1975. (2006)

Mairéad Ormhudha Ní Shéaghdha. Prompted to Action by Piety. Achkowledging the Contribution of Women Religious: Little Sisters Past and Present. (2006)

Susanna Sweeney. Women in Business: Heads for Hats. (2006)

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