Email: kevin.oneill.1@bc.edu
Ireland; rural society; famine; Atlantic economy
Professor O鈥橬eill was the co-founder of the Irish Studies Program at Boston College. His research concentrates on the interaction of traditional agricultural societies and a growing world economy, with a special focus upon pre-famine Ireland. He is currently involved in a village-level study of popular and elite understandings of the social, gender, and economic dynamics involved in the commercialization of Irish society, 1750-1820.
鈥淧ale and Dejected, Exhausted by the Waste of Sorrow: Courtship and the Expression of Emotion鈥 in聽Sexed Sentiments. (Rodopi, 2011)
鈥淣ation or Neighbourhood? Mary Leadbeater and Post-Rebellion Reform,鈥 in Terry Brotherstone, Anna Clark, Kevin Whelan, eds.,听These Fissured Isles: Ireland, Scotland and British History, 1798-1848聽(Tuckwell Press, 2005)
Family and Farm in Pre-famine Ireland: The Parish of Killeshandra聽(1984, 2003)
"'Woe to the oppressor of the poor!': Post-Rebellion Violence in Ballitore," in Thomas Bartlett, David Dickson, Daire Keogh, and Kevin Whelan, eds.,听1798: A Bicentenary Perspective听(2003)
"The Star-Spangled Shamrock: Memory and Meaning in Irish America," in Ian McBride, ed.,听History and Memory in Modern Ireland聽(2001)
"Mary Shackleton Leadbeater: Peaceful Rebel," in Daire Keogh and Nicholas Furlong,听eds.,听The Women of 1798聽(Dublin, 1998)
"Almost a Gentlewoman: Gender and Adolescence in the Diary of Mary Shackleton," in Mary O'Dowd and Sabine Wichert, eds.,听Chattel, Servant or Citizen: Women's Status in Church and State聽(Belfast 1995)
鈥淩evisionist Milestone,鈥 in Ciaran Brady, ed.,听Interpreting Irish History: The Debate on Historical Revisionism聽(Dublin, 1994)
"Looking at the Pictures: Art and Artfulness in Colonial Ireland," in Adele Dalsimer, ed.,听Visualizing Ireland: National Identity and the Pictorial Tradition聽(New York, 1993)