Leeann Lane

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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 is currently working on a biography of Mary MacSwiney. 

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

Year Publication
2019 Leeann Lane (2019) Dorothy Macardle. Dublin: UCD Press.
2010 Leeann Lane (2010) Rosamond Jacob. Third Person Singular. Dublin: UCD Press.

Peer Reviewed Journal

Year Publication
2021 Leeann Lane (2021) 'Constructions of civil war masculinities in the writings of Dorothy Macardle'. IRISH STUDIES REVIEW (PRINT), .
2011 Leeann Lane (2011) '‘Rosamond Jacob: An “Ordinary” Woman in the Early Free State’'. New Hibernia Review, 15 (4).
2009 Leeann Lane (2009) '‘In My Mind I Build a House: The Quest for Family in the Children's Fiction of Patricia Lynch''. Eire-Ireland, 44 (1).
2004 Leeann Lane (2004) '‘Female Emigration and the Cooperative Movement in the Writings of George Russell'. New Hibernia Review, 4 (8).
2003 Leeann Lane (2003) '‘“It is in the cottages and farmers’ houses that the nation is born:’ AE’s Irish Homestead and the Cultural Revival,’'. Irish University Review, 8 (4).

Edited Book

Year Publication
2016 Leeann Lane and William Murphy (Ed.). (2016) Liverpool: Liverpool University Press,
2009 Mary McAuliffe, Katherine O'Donnell and Leeann Lane (Ed.). (2009) London: Palgrave Macmillan,

Online Article

Year Publication
2018 Leeann Lane (2018) How Women Won the Vote. ELEA Link
2018 Leeann Lane (2018) Countess Markievicz. ELEA Link
2013 Leeann Lane (2013) The International Story of the Women's Suffrage Movement. ELEA Link

Book Chapter

Year Publication
2021 Leeann Lane (2021) 'Political propaganda: the ‘frontier state’ in the writings of Dorothy Macardle' In: Clemson, USA : Clemson University Press.
2018 Leeann Lane (2018) 'Rosamond Jacob: nationalism and suffrage' In: Dublin : Irish Academic Press.
2013 Leeann Lane (2013) ''George Russell and James Stephens: class and cultural discourse, Dublin 1913'' In: Dublin : Four Courts Press.
2009 Leeann Lane (2009) 'Mary McAuliffe, Katherine O'Donnell and Leeann Lane (eds.), Advances in Irish History' In: London : Palgrave Macmillan.
2007 Leeann Lane (2007) ''Rosamond Jacob: nationalism and suffrage'' In: Dublin : Irish Academic Press.
2004 Leeann Lane (2004) 'Betsey Taylor Fitzpatrick and James H. Murphy (eds.), The Irish Revivial Reappraised' In: Dublin : Four Courts.

Conference Contribution

Year Publication
2020 Leeann Lane (2020) 'In Awe of all Mna’ In Awe of No Man: Dorothy Macardle and the Political Power of Propaganda Boston College, .
2020 Leeann Lane (2020) International Women's Day Panel In conversation with David McCullagh speaking on Dorothy Macardle Museum of Irish Literature, Dublin, .
2019 Leeann Lane (2019) Modern Irish History Seminar Forging republican credentials: Dorothy Macardle’s Civil War Imprisonment Trinity College, Dublin, .
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Professional Associations

Association Function From / To
Women's History Association of Ireland -

Education

Start date Institution Qualification Subject
Boston College Ph.D. History
University College Cork B.A. English and History
University College Cork M.A. History (by Research)

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.