

Email: kevin.oneill.1@bc.edu
Ireland; rural society; famine; Atlantic economy
Professor ONeill was the co-founder of the Irish Studies Program at Boston College. His research concentrates on the interaction of traditional agricultural societies and a growing world economy, with a special focus upon pre-famine Ireland. He is currently involved in a village-level study of popular and elite understandings of the social, gender, and economic dynamics involved in the commercialization of Irish society, 1750-1820.
Pale and Dejected, Exhausted by the Waste of Sorrow: Courtship and the Expression of Emotion inSexed Sentiments. (Rodopi, 2011)
Nation or Neighbourhood? Mary Leadbeater and Post-Rebellion Reform, in Terry Brotherstone, Anna Clark, Kevin Whelan, eds.,泭These Fissured Isles: Ireland, Scotland and British History, 1798-1848(Tuckwell Press, 2005)
Family and Farm in Pre-famine Ireland: The Parish of Killeshandra(1984, 2003)
"'Woe to the oppressor of the poor!': Post-Rebellion Violence in Ballitore," in Thomas Bartlett, David Dickson, Daire Keogh, and Kevin Whelan, eds.,泭1798: A Bicentenary Perspective泭(2003)
"The Star-Spangled Shamrock: Memory and Meaning in Irish America," in Ian McBride, ed.,泭History and Memory in Modern Ireland(2001)
"Mary Shackleton Leadbeater: Peaceful Rebel," in Daire Keogh and Nicholas Furlong,泭eds.,泭The Women of 1798(Dublin, 1998)
"Almost a Gentlewoman: Gender and Adolescence in the Diary of Mary Shackleton," in Mary O'Dowd and Sabine Wichert, eds.,泭Chattel, Servant or Citizen: Women's Status in Church and State(Belfast 1995)
Revisionist Milestone, in Ciaran Brady, ed.,泭Interpreting Irish History: The Debate on Historical Revisionism(Dublin, 1994)
"Looking at the Pictures: Art and Artfulness in Colonial Ireland," in Adele Dalsimer, ed.,泭Visualizing Ireland: National Identity and the Pictorial Tradition(New York, 1993)