Publications

Journal Articles:

Book Chapters:

  • ‘Brown Bread and Washing Machines: Nostalgia and Perspective in Irish Women’s Experiences
    of Rural Electrification’ in Abigail Harrison Moore & Ruth Sandwell (eds.) In A New Light:
    Histories of Women and Energy, 1800-1990, Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2021.

Conference Papers and Invited Talks:

  • “The Light of Heaven to Our Souls’: Domestic Electrical Appliances in Rural Irish Kitchens of the 1950s and 1960s’, Society of Architectural Historians 75th Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, April/May 2022
  • ‘Kitchen Power: Women’s Experiences of Rural Electrification’, invited talk to BA Home Economics, St. Angela’s College, online, March 2022
  • “The Light of Heaven to Our Souls’: Rural Electrification and Domestic Light in Ireland’, Light Switch online symposium, Science Gallery Dublin, November 2020
  • ‘Kitchen Power: Modernity, Tradition and Gender Roles During Irish Rural Electrification’, Kitchen Power: National Parallels online symposium, September 2020
  • ‘Kitchen Power: Women’s Experiences of Rural Electrification’, public lecture, Roscommon County Council, September 2019
  • ‘Kitchen Promises: Aspiration and Reality during Irish Rural Electrification’, Modernism in the Home, Birmingham, online presentation, July 2019
  • ‘Kitchen Power: Women’s Experiences of Rural Electrification’, invited talk to BA Fashion and Textiles students, NCAD, Dublin, October 2019
  • ‘Kitchen Power: Women’s Experiences of Rural Electrification’, Institution of Engineering and Technology Conference on the History of Technology, Dublin, September 2019
  • ‘Kitchen Power: Women’s Experiences of Rural Electrification’, Roscommon County Council Offices, Roscommon, September 2019
  • ‘Kitchen Power: Beyond the Cabinet Door’ curator’s talk with Noel Campbell, National Museum of Ireland – Country Life, Mayo, August 2019
  • ‘Kitchen Power: Women’s Experiences of Rural Electrification’, Modernism in the Home conference, University of Birmingham, June 2019
  • ‘Kitchen Power: Women’s Experiences of Rural Electrification’, Electric Irish Homes textile art showcase, National Museum of Ireland – Country Life, Castlebar, May 2019
  • ‘Kitchen Promises: Keeping Country Girls at Home with Rural Electrification’, Dublin One City One Book, Rathfarnham Castle, April 2019
  • ‘Kitchen Promises: Oral History’ talk to the Lord Mayor’s Certificate in Oral History, Dublin City Libraries, March 2019
  • ‘Kitchen Promises: Rural Electrification in 1950s and 1960s Ireland’, Working for the Home symposium, Trinity College Dublin, February 2019
  • ‘Kitchen Promises: Researching Housewives, Electrical Products and Domesticity in 1950s and 1960s Rural Ireland’, invited research seminar, Trinity College Dublin Centre for Contemporary Irish History, November 2018
  • ‘Electrical Demonstrators and Irish Countrywomen: Official and Voluntary Promotion of Irish Rural Electrification’, Material & Consumer Culture network, ESSCH conference, Belfast, April 2018
  • Real World Engagement talk on research as a career, BA Contemporary Visual Culture, Dublin Institute of Technology, March 2018
  • ‘Using Oral History to Study 1950s and 1960s Ireland’, TVAD Research Talk, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, February 2018
  • ‘Made in Ireland’? National Narratives and Transnational Networks in Irish Design History’, Design History Society annual conference, Making and Unmaking the Environment, Oslo, September 2017
  • Electric Irish Homes: Age & Opportunity Arts & Culture workshop, as part of an Age & Opportunity taster day at An Grianán, Termonfeckin, Co. Louth, September 2017
  • ‘Brown Bread and Washing Machines: Nostalgia and Perspective in Irish Women’s Experience of Rural Electrification’, Oral History Network of Ireland, Galway, June 2017
  • ‘Oral Histories in Research’, at ‘Domesticating Energy’, Material Cultures of Energy AHRC project workshop, University of Cambridge, June 2017
  • Research Week presentation, Kingston School of Art Research Institute, London, April 2017
  • ‘Electric Irish Homes: Researching Housewives, Electrical Products and Domesticity in 1950s and 1960s Rural Ireland’, V&A/RCA History of Design Spring Research Seminar, Royal College of Art, London, March 2017
  • ‘Shining Clean Machines: The Promotion of Vacuum Cleaners in 1950s and 1960s Ireland’, Mise Éire: Shaping a Nation Through Design, National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts, Dublin, November 2016
  • ‘‘Look what Santa’s Brought for You, Mummy’: Women, Domesticity and the Vacuum Cleaner in 1950s and 1960s Ireland’, Historical Geographies of Home session at the 16th International Conference of Historical Geographers, London, July 2016
  • ‘‘Look what Santa’s Brought for You, Mummy’: Women, Domesticity and the Vacuum Cleaner in 1950s and 1960s Ireland’, Irish Women and Rural Society: From Medieval to Modern, Women’s History Association of Ireland annual conference, Queen’s University Belfast, March 2016

Online Material:

Television and Radio

  • Interview, The Way We Were, Episode 2: At Home, RTÉ One, March 2022
  • Respondent, Davis Now lecture by Ellen Rowley, RTÉ Radio 1, January 2020
  • Interview for the Egg Money documentary on women in rural Ireland, Newstalk FM, November 2019
  • Television interviews for RTÉ One News and Six One News, RTÉ 1, July 2019
  • Radio interviews for Morning Ireland, RTÉ Radio 1, Culture File, RTÉ Lyric FM, Midwest Radio and Castlebar Community Radio, July 2019