Ciara started following the work of Sonja Tiernan, Liverpool Hope University, Politics, History, Media & Communications.
Ciara started following the work of Peter Martin, Queen's University Belfast, History and Anthropology.
Ciara started following the journal Irish Historical Studies.
Irish History Lecturer, Study Abroad Programme, School of Business
University College Dublin, History and Archives
About
Contact: ciara.meehan@ucd.ie
Ciara Meehan is a historian based at University College Dublin specialising in twentieth century Ireland. Having previously lectured at the UCD School of History & Archives, she is currently the Irish history lecturer for the UCD Quinn School of Business study abroad programme.
She is also the co-editor of the History and Policy initiative at the UCD School of History & Archives' History Hub, an on-line forum for historians to contribute to current policy debates. Visit: http://historyhub.ie/pages/historypol.html, or for regular updates, follow @historyhub_ie on twitter.
Her research interests include the evolution of the Irish state and development of the party system, Irish social policy, and the history of elections and electioneering.
She has discussed aspects of her work on both radio and television, including Newstalk's Talking History, TV3's Tonight with Vincent Browne and RTE's The Frontline.
She is currently completing a book, provisionally entitled 'A Just Society for Ireland? Politics and Society, 1964-1987', the research for which was conducted during her time as an IRCHSS Postdoctoral Fellow at the UCD School of History & Archives, 2009-11. The book, which will be published by Palgrave Macmillan, explores the transformation of Irish society and politics through the lens of Declan Costello's Just Society and Garret FitzGerald's Constitutional Crusade.
Her first book, 'The Cosgrave Party: a History of Cumann na nGaedheal, 1923-33', was published by the Royal Irish Academy in 2010. For details of reviews, click the 'books' tab (left). She is also the author of several articles and book chapters on various aspects of Irish politics post-independence. Her most recent publications include an article (with Sean Farrell, Gary Murphy and Kevin Rafter) on the 2011 General Election in New Hibernia Review (15, 3, autumn 2011), and a chapter on Arthur Griffith in Kevin Rafter (ed.) Irish journalism before Independence: More a disease than a profession (Manchester University Press, 2011).
A graduate of University College Dublin, she received a BA in 2003 and PhD in 2007.
For a full list of publications and conference contributions, please see CV (left).
In addition to her academic work, she has also previously worked as a researcher on a broad array of political and state projects for RTE, TG4 and the Office of Public Works.
