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About Maria LuddyMary O'Dowd

Maria Luddy is Emeritus Professor of Modern Irish History at the University of Warwick and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Her book Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth Century Ireland (1995) was awarded the James S. Donnelly Prize for best book in Irish history in 1996. She has published extensively on Irish social history writing on unmarried mothers nuns and the history of Irish childhood. Her most recent publications include Prostitution and Irish Society 18001940 (2007) and the co-edited collection Children Childhood and Irish Society 1700 to the Present (with James M. Smith 2014). Mary O'Dowd is Emeritus Professor of Gender History at Queen's University Belfast and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. She has published extensively on women and gender in Irish history. Her most recent publications include as co-author Reading the Irish Woman: Studies in Cultural Encounters and Exchange 17141960 (with Gerardine Meaney and Bernadette Whelan 2014) and A History of the Girl: Formation Education and Identity (2018) which she co-edited with June Purvis.