Íde B. O’Carroll, PhD

Íde B. O’Carroll PhD is a social researcher, author and teacher who lives in Amherst, Massachusetts (USA) and Lismore, Waterford (Ireland).

As a consultant researcher (O’Carroll Associates International Consulting) she worked for many years on some of the key social change issues in Ireland, Europe and America. In 2014, she wound up her consultancy firm in order to concentrate on writing.

Her selected publications include: Irish Transatlantics, 1980-2015 (Cork Uni. Press, 2018); ‘Across the Pond: Connections to Marriage Equality Ireland’ in Crossing the Threshold: The Story of the Marriage Equality Movement (Merrion, 2017); Models for Movers: Irish Women’s Emigration to America (Cork Uni. Press, 2015); Daring Voices: The One Foundation’s Advocacy Programme, Ireland (OF, 2014); Lesbian and Gay Visions of Ireland: Towards the Twenty-First Century (Cassells, 1995), co-edited with E. Collins.

She is currently working on a new book that traces the transformation of Irish society, entitled Thirty Years of Change, Ireland, 1993-2023. 

From 1991-1999, Íde was a Research Associate, Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland; from 2012-2013, Visiting Scholar at the Center for Public Policy, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; from 2013-2017, Visiting Scholar, Ireland House, New York University, and from 2018-2023, Adjunct Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

She is a founding member and Co-Chair of the Amherst Irish Association/Cumann Gaelach Amherst www.amherstirish.org and member of the Amherst poetry group, Emergence.