Íde B. O’Carroll, PhD

BOOKS & WRITING

Books & Writing

Books

Thirty Years of Change Through Women’s Eyes: Ireland, 1993-2023

2025
Cork University Press

‘Across the Pond: Connections to Marriage Equality Ireland’ in
Crossing the Threshold: The Story of the Marriage Equality Movement,
Gráinne Healy and Orla Howard (eds.)

2017
Dublin, Merrion Press

Irish Transatlantics, 1980-2015: New forms of migrancy across an old circuit

2018
Cork University Press
Cover art by www.lisaodonnellartist.com

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Models for Movers: Irish Women’s Emigration to America

2015
Cork University Press

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Lesbian and Gay visions of Ireland: Towards the Twenty-First Century

1995
Co-authored with Eoin Collins.
London: Cassell. (Edited book)

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Breaking the Silence from a Distance: Irish Women Emigrants and Sexual Abuse

1995
in “Irish Women and Irish Migrations”
Irish World-Wide, History, Heritage, Identity, Vol. 5.Leicester: Leicester University Press.

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Poverty – Lesbian and Gay Men: The Economic and Social Effect of Discrimination

1995
Co-authored with Eoin Collins and P. Prendiville.
Dublin: Combat Poverty Agency.

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Queers in the Quad: The position of lesbian and gay students and staff in third level institutions in Ireland.

1995
Cork, Higher Education Equality Unit.

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Women and the Construction Industry in Ireland, a report to FÁS and the Construction Industry Federation

1992
Co-authored with E. Davis, P. Fine-Davis, C. Clear,
Centre for Women’s Studies, Trinity College, Dublin.

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Reclaiming Beacons of Bravery: Irish Women Emigrants

1991
Working Papers in Irish Studies
Northeastern University, Boston.

Books & Writing

CREATIVE WRITING

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A Mighty Room : A Collection of Poems Written in Emily Dickinson’s Bedroom.

2015
Poem in Gaelic/Irish
“Seomra Buí/Yellow Room”

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Short story – ‘Eyeopeners’

2003
Shortlisted for Francis McManus short story competition,
RTÉ Radio 1. Broadcast December 2003.

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The Turning Tide: New Writings from County Waterford

2002
Thomas McCarthy (ed.).
Two poems in the Irish language –
‘Síle na Gig’ and ‘Georgia O’Keeffe’.

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Field Day Anthology of Irish Literature – Volumes 5-6 on Women’s Writing.

2002
Poem, Mná i mBoston / Women in Boston.

Íde B. O’Carroll, PhD

Social Researcher & Author

As a consultant researcher (O’Carroll Associates International Consulting), I worked for many years on some of the key social change issues in Ireland, Europe and America (see Commissions and Reports).

The Author

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