• Caring for the Celtic cubs: Discursive constructions of mothers and mothering in the Irish childcare debate 

  Leane, Máire (Association for Research on Mothering, 2008)

  Drawing on an understanding of the public sphere as a multiplicity of communicative and discursive spaces this paper examines the constructions of mothers, mothering and motherhood which emerged in recent debates about ...
• Embodied sexualities: exploring accounts of Irish women’s sexual knowledge and sexual experiences, 1920–1970 

  Leane, Máire (Orpen Press, 2014-01)

  This chapter explores the ways in which sexuality has been understood, embodied and negotiated by a cohort of Irish women through their lives. It is based on qualitative data generated as part of an oral history project ...
• Uncomfortable 'truths' and the centenary anniversary of the 1916 Rising in Ireland 

  Ó hAdhmaill, Féilim (Socialist History Society, 2016-05)

  How to deal with uncomfortable ‘truths’ from the past has long posed problems for historians and politicians alike and this is exemplified by attempts to ‘deal with’ the centenary anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising in ...
• The Catholic Church and revolution in Ireland 

  Ó hAdhmaill, Féilim (Socialist History Society, 2013-12)

  Despite the involvement of radical socialists like James Connolly and the Irish Citizen Army in the 1916 Rising and the unanimous passing of the Democratic Programme (a socialist manifesto for the new Government) by the ...
• Ireland and the global economic crisis: one island, two different experiences 

  Ó hAdhmaill, Féilim (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)

  In this chapter, Ó hAdhmaill argues that responses to the global economic crisis which emerged in 2008 reflected a dominant ideological discourse, with ‘austerity’ being a tool in a wider agenda to reassert neoliberalist ...

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