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Catriona Kennedy
Reader of Modern History

Biography

BA (TCD), PhD (York)

Catriona Kennedy is a Reader in Modern British and Irish history. Her most recent book, Women, Politics, and the Irish Public Sphere in the Age of Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2025) explores how women from different social and religious backgrounds navigated late eighteenth-century Ireland intense ideological conflicts.

Catriona’s current project is a study of the master-servant relationship in eighteenth-century Ireland. It explores the place of domestic servants within the quotidian landscape and cultural and political imaginary of penal-era Ireland.

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Dr Catriona Kennedy
Reader of Modern History
King's Manor K/376A
Department of History
University of York
Heslington
York
YO10 5DD

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