Leeann Lane
Dr
Dr Leeann Lane has a PhD from Boston College, a research MA and a BA from UCC.
Her primary area of research is modern Irish history with a specialisation in nineteenth and twentieth-century gender and women's history. This work to date has focused on biographical studies of female activists in the area of suffrage and women involved in the Irish revolutionary period with a focus on those who adopted an anti-Treaty position in 1921. The manner in which women negotiated the limited opportunities available to women in an independent Ireland characterised by repressive legislation which limited the rights of women in the public sphere is core to the research.
Dr Lane is particularly interested in the issue of marital status in the independent Ireland, in particular the position of single heterosexual women in a society dominated by the ideology of separate spheres promoted by State and the Catholic church.
Dr Lane has just completed a biography of Mary MacSwiney published in March 2025.
Dr Lane has also published in the area of the Irish cultural revival.
In 2012 Dr Lane was appointed by the Taoiseach to the Expert Advisory Group on the Decade of Centenaries.
Her primary area of research is modern Irish history with a specialisation in nineteenth and twentieth-century gender and women's history. This work to date has focused on biographical studies of female activists in the area of suffrage and women involved in the Irish revolutionary period with a focus on those who adopted an anti-Treaty position in 1921. The manner in which women negotiated the limited opportunities available to women in an independent Ireland characterised by repressive legislation which limited the rights of women in the public sphere is core to the research.
Dr Lane is particularly interested in the issue of marital status in the independent Ireland, in particular the position of single heterosexual women in a society dominated by the ideology of separate spheres promoted by State and the Catholic church.
Dr Lane has just completed a biography of Mary MacSwiney published in March 2025.
Dr Lane has also published in the area of the Irish cultural revival.
In 2012 Dr Lane was appointed by the Taoiseach to the Expert Advisory Group on the Decade of Centenaries.
Book Chapter
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | (2024) 'Dorothy Macardle' In: Atlas of the Irish Civil War. Cork : Cork University Press. [DOI] | |
| 2023 | Leeann Lane (2023) '‘Applicant is a spinster’: aspects of the cosmos of the everyday life of single women' In: A Very Hard Struggle: Lives in the Military Service Pension Collections. Dublin : Department of Defence. | |
| 2021 | Leeann Lane (2021) 'Political propaganda: the ‘frontier state’ in the writings of Dorothy Macardle' In: Ireland and Partition: Contexts and Consequences. Clemson, USA : Clemson University Press. | |
| 2018 | Leeann Lane (2018) 'Rosamond Jacob: nationalism and suffrage' In: Becoming Citizens: Irish Women and the Vote. Dublin : Irish Academic Press. | |
| 2013 | Leeann Lane (2013) ''George Russell and James Stephens: class and cultural discourse, Dublin 1913'' In: Francis Devine (ed.), A Capital in Conflict: Dublin 1913. Dublin : Four Courts Press. | |
| 2009 | Leeann Lane (2009) 'Mary McAuliffe, Katherine O'Donnell and Leeann Lane (eds.), Advances in Irish History' In: ‘Ireland: identities and cultural traditions’. London : Palgrave Macmillan. | |
| 2007 | Leeann Lane (2007) ''Rosamond Jacob: nationalism and suffrage'' In: Louise Ryan and Margaret Ward (eds.), Irish Women and the Vote'. Dublin : Irish Academic Press. | |
| 2004 | Leeann Lane (2004) 'Betsey Taylor Fitzpatrick and James H. Murphy (eds.), The Irish Revivial Reappraised' In: ‘“There are compensations in the congested districts for their poverty”: AE and the idealized peasant of the agricultural co-operative movement. Dublin : Four Courts. |
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Teaching Interests
My teaching interests are in the area of modern Irish history and Victorian Britain with a focus on gender and women's history.
I am interested in the methodologies of biography and autobiography.
I am interested in the methodologies of biography and autobiography.