Dr. Gillian O'Brien

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Contact Details

Office : B132, Station No.4, Department of History, St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, Ireland.

E-mail : Gillian.OBrien@spd.dcu.ie

Phone: +353 1 884 2258

Fax: +353 1 8376197

Dr Gillian O’Brien lectures on Irish history from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, on American history from Civil War to Civil Rights and on the history of Dublin City. She has recently returned from Chicago where she was a Fulbright Scholar at the Newberry Library. Gillian’s current research interests include:Urban history, particularly the cities of London, Dublin and Chicago, Newspaper history, Sensational crime in nineteenth-century America & Ireland in the 1790s.

Recent Publications:

• ‘“Truth in essentials, Imagination in non-essentials”: Irish Journalists in nineteenth-century America’, in Kevin Rafter, (ed), ‘Not so much a profession as a disease’ Irish Journalism: A Historical Anthology (Manchester University Press, 2010)

• Editor with introduction, Dublin under the Georges, 1714-1830, by Constantia Maxwell, (forthcoming, Classics in Irish History Series, UCD Press)

• Editor (with Finola O’Kane), Georgian Dublin (Four Courts Press, 2008)

• ‘“What can possess you to go to Ireland?”: Perceptions of Dublin in the Late Georgian Period’, in O’Brien and O’Kane (eds) Georgian Dublin (2008)

• “‘Ireland must be our province if she will not be persuaded to a Union”: British policy in Ireland 1795-98’, in Dáire Keogh & Kevin Whelan (eds) Acts of Union, (Dublin, 2001)