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ProfessorDeirdre Raftery

Full Professor

School of Education

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  • Full Professor
    School of Education
  • 01 716 7981
  • University College Dublin, School of Education, Roebuck Castle Belfield Dublin 4

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    FEATURED
    Featured
    From the convent cloister to The Country Girls: the Irish nun in history and literature - a talk with Deirdre Raftery and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (opens in a new tab)⁠
    17 Apr 2019
    Convent life gave opportunities to Irish women to get a good education, avoid ‘compulsory’ marriage and indeed the chance for ‘worldly’ adventures and travel. This is discussed by UCD Professor Deirdre Raftery, TCD Professor of Poetry, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and introduced by Nell Regan.
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    FEATURED
    Featured
    Dublin Book Festival 2019 (opens in a new tab)⁠
    15 Nov 2018
    This was a panel, hosted by Madeleine Keane, who interviewed Irish writers; following the interview and discussion, we read from our new books.
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    RTE Irish Imperial Lives Podcast Episode
    30 Aug 2025
    Episode 5 of the Irish Imperial Lives series, on RTE Radio and Radio Podcasts. Topic: Teresa Ball: Educating the Daughters of Empire
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    Distinguished Book Award
    24 Jun 2025
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Editorial Board
    2 Jun 2025
    Member
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Library and Archives Committee
    1 Jun 2025
    Member
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    Visiting Fellow
    2 Sep 2024
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    Visiting Research Fellow
    1 Aug 2024
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    Research Fellow
    1 Jul 2024
  • REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    Journal of American Ethnic History (JAEH) (opens in a new tab)⁠
    1 Nov 2022 - 5 Nov 2022
    Anonymous peer review
  • JOURNAL/SERIES EDITED
    History of Education (opens in a new tab)⁠
    27 Jun 2022
  • REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    History of Education
    23 Mar 2022 - 23 Mar 2022
    Anonymous peer review
  • REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    International Standing Conference for the History of Education, Milan, Italy. (opens in a new tab)⁠
    1 Mar 2022
    Anonymous peer review
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    Visiting Research Fellow
    1 Jan 2020
    Invited Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Toronto
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    The Irish Nun: Historical perspectives on religious life for Irishwomen in Ireland. (opens in a new tab)⁠
    12 Oct 2019
    This was a public lecture at the dlr Lexicon library, Dun Laoghaire, attended by a large audience of people interested in social and cultural history. It drew on research on Irish women's lives, recounting how and why some became nuns and worked in education. The event was recorded as a podcast. Presented by Dr Catriona Delaney, and drawing on our collaborative work on UCD ConventCollections projects, the event was a way of communicating research to a public audience.
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    Visiting Research Fellow
    1 Sep 2019
    Invited - Visiting Research Fellow at the Cushwa Centre, University of Notre Dame, USA
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    Distinguished Historian Award
    26 Jun 2019
    Award made once every three years, at the CHWR triennial conference, upon nomination by peers as Distinguished Historian. In 2019 the award and the citation were presented at Notre Dame. On the occasion of the award, at the conference dinner, a citation is read, testifying to the reasons why the award has been made to the recipient.
  • PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION
    H-WRBI (opens in a new tab)⁠
    1 Jun 2019 - 30 Jun 2023
    President
  • REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    International Standing Conference for the History of Education, Porto, Portugal (opens in a new tab)⁠
    1 Jan 2019
    Anonymous peer review
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Tenure Committee, College of Social Sciences and Law, UCD
    1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2023
    Member
  • JOURNAL/SERIES EDITED
    Studies
    24 Sep 2018
    Scholarly edition
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Royal Irish Academy Historical Studies Committee
    1 Sep 2018 - 1 Sep 2022
    Member
  • REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    International Standing Conference for the History of Education. Humboldt University Berlin.
    1 Jan 2018
    Anonymous peer review
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    National Archives Advisory Committee
    1 Jan 2018
    Member
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    Nano Nagle and Global Education
    1 Jan 2017