Professor Oonagh Walsh

Oonagh Walsh is Professor of Gender Studies at the Glasgow School for Business and Society. She was educated at Trinity College, Dublin (B.A. History & English and PhD in modern Irish history) and Nottingham University (M.A. American Studies). She taught at LSU College, Southampton, Aberdeen University and University College Cork before her appointment as Professor of Gender Studies at GCU in 2012. Her principal research interests lie in gender and medical histories, and in the nineteenth century history of Irish psychiatry in particular. She has published on a range of areas in modern Irish history, including Protestant women’s social, political and cultural experiences, the development of the asylum system in the west of Ireland, and twentieth century obstetrics. She is author of a report on symphysiotomy for the Department of Health (Ireland), and a monograph on the Irish asylum system in the nineteenth-century west of Ireland. She is also undertaking a study of possible epigenetic change as a result of the Great Famine.