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Telephone: (617) 552-3793 Office Location: Connolly House Email: kevin.oneill.1@bc.edu Curriculum Vitae: please click here |
Education
Ph.D., Brown University, 1979
Fields of Interest
Ireland, Rural Society, Famine.
Academic Profile
Professor O'Neill 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. He is also co-editor of the Irish Literary Supplement.
Representative Publications
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Family and Farm in Pre-famine Ireland: The Parish of Killeshandra (1984, 2003)
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"'Woe to the oppressor of the poor!'" Post Rebellion Violence in Ballitore," in Thomas Bartlett, David Dickson, Daire Keogh, and Kevin Whelan, eds., 1798: A Bicentenary Perspective (2003)
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"The Star Spangled Shamrock: Memory and Meaning in Irish America," in Ian McBride, ed., History and Memory in Modern Ireland (2001)
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Mary Shackleton Leadbeater: Peaceful Rebel in The Women of 1798. eds. D´ire Keogh and Nicholas Furlong. (Dublin, 1998)
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"Almost a Gentlewoman: Gender and Adolescence in the Diary of Mary Shackleton" Chatel, Servant or Citizen. Women's Status in Church and State: Eds. Mary O'Dowd and Sabine Wichert (Belfast 1995)
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“Revisionist Milestone” in Interpreting Irish History: The Debate on Historical Revisionism. Ed. Ciaran Brady (Dublin, 1994)
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"Looking at the Pictures: Art and Artfulness in Colonial Ireland," Visualizing Ireland: National Identity and the Pictorial Tradition. Ed. Adele Dalsimer (New York, 1993)