Dr Senia Paseta

Lecturer (CUF) in Modern History

St Hugh's College

Email: senia.paseta@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests

Senia Paseta has published on aspects of the political and social history of nineteenth and twentieth century Ireland, and is particularly interested in education, gender and political and social policy. She is currently working on aa broad study of Irish women in the twentieth century.

Supervision Interests

I am happy to supervise on all aspects of modern Irish history. My graduate students have worked in a wide range of fields, including women's history, the history of education, religious identity formation and political movements and ideas in the revolutionary period. Graduates with an interest in comparative history and welcome, as are those with an interest in the Irish abroad.

Selected Publications:

• Before the revolution: Nationalism, social change and Ireland's Catholic elite, 1879-1922. (Cork, 1999) 183pp.
• 'Nationalist response to two Royal visits to Ireland, 1900 and 1903', Irish Historical Studies. Vol XXXI (1999) pp. 488-504
• 'The Catholic hierarchy and the Irish University question, 1880-1908', History. Vol 85 (2000) pp. 268-284
• (ed.) Ireland and the Great War: 'A War to Unite Us All'? . (Manchester, 2002) 1-7, 8-27pp.
• A Very Short Introduction to Modern Ireland. (Oxford, 2003) 164pp.
• 'Censorship and its Critics in the Irish Free State, 1922-1932', Past and Present. Vol 181 (2003) pp. 193-218

Future Publications:

• ''Another Class'?: Women's Higher Education in Ireland, 1870-1909' in . (http://oxhistonline.modhist.ox.ac.uk/publications/20/, 2007)
• 'Women in the National University of Ireland', The National University of Ireland Centenary History. (2007)

Research Interests and Activities

• Modern Britain and Europe

Selected Links to External Websites

• St Hugh's College