Dr Sarah O Brien
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Background:
Sarah O'Brien received a PhD in History from 91制片厂 (2009), and a B.Ed. in Education (2004). Her doctoral research was funded by the Irish Research Council and investigated Irish associationalism in post-World War II Birmingham. Her subsequent research on the Irish in Argentina won an outstanding research award from Riocht na Midhe and was published as a monograph in 2017 by Palgrave Macmillan.
Sarah has published her work in Irish Studies Review, Dublin Review of Books, New Hibernia Review, Midland History and the Irish Times. Prior to her appointment in 91制片厂 she was Lecturer in Trinity College Dublin's School of Linguistics, Speech and Communications Sciences (2015-2019). From 2012 to 2015, she was Director of Bilingual Education in Northern New Mexico University. She has been an invited Visiting Professor in the School of Sociology, University of Buenos Aires (2017) and was Visiting Professor in Department of Applied Linguistics, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil in 2019.
Sarah also co-directs 91制片厂's Oral History Centre, home to over 3000 audio recordings.
Modules taught: Research Methods; Inclusive Education Policies and Practices; Creating a Positive Classroom Environment; Oral History Methodologies; Comparative Education
Books:
Of Memory and the Misplaced: Irish Immigrant Life Writing in the United States. Indiana University Press, (January, 2024)
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The Irish in Argentina: Linguistic Diaspora, Narrative and Performance. Palgrave MacMillan (2018)
Journal Articles:
: Interpreting the Oral Testimony of a Magdalene Laundry Survivor through the lens of Collective Memory. Oral History Journal. (Autumn 2022)
Tom Brick of South Dakota, Irish Emigrant Life Writing and the Dynamics of Storytelling. New Hibernia Review. (2019)
Windle and O'Brien. Language, Education and Transnationalism: An Introduction. Trabajos em Lingu铆stica Aplicada (April, 2019)
Spanish Language Ideologies in New Mexico and their impact on Spanish Language Learners. Journal of Belonging, Identity, Language and Diversity (2018)
Negotiations of Identity in the Wake of Terrorism: The Irish in Birmingham. Irish Studies Review. (2018)
Irish Women's Involvement in Birmingham's Union of Catholic Mothers, 1948-78. Midland History. (38,2, 2013)
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Book Chapters:
Sarah O鈥橞rien 鈥淐ollective Memory and Social Forgetting: An Oral History of the Irish in Argentina鈥, in eds. Estelle Epinoux and Frank Healy, Cultural Perspectives on the Irish in Central and South America (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2023). ;
Sarah O'Brien, Politics, Community and Nationhood in Irish 鈥 Argentine Oral Narrative in, Micheal O鈥 Aodha and Mairtin O鈥 Cathain, The Silent People? New Perspectives on the Irish Abroad, (Lexington, Rowman and Littlefield, 2013)
Sarah O'Brien, Narrative encounters with the Irish in Birmingham in, editor(s) Nessa Cronin, Se谩n Crosson, Louis de Paor and John Eastlake, An谩il an Bh茅il Bheo: Orality and Modern Irish Culture, (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009)
Sarah O' Brien 鈥橳he Stranger within my gate鈥; Irish emigrant narratives of tradition, modernity and exile in, editor(s)Marta Kurkowska-Budzan, Krzysztof Zamorski, Oral History: The Challenges of Dialogue, (John Benjamins, 2009)
Special Edition Journals:
Sarah O鈥橞rien and M谩ire Mhic Math煤na (eds.) Multilingualism in the Early Childhood Years, (Teanga, Spring 2019)
Sarah O鈥橞rien and Joel Windle (Eds.) Language, Education and Transnationalism: A Special Edition of the Jornadas en Linguisticas Aplicadas (Spring Summer 2019)
Essays:
"Art, Oral History and Ireland's Mother and Baby Homes." (April 2021) The Oral History Review: ;
"The Autonomy of the Past". Dublin Review of Books. (March, 2021): ;
"The Past Revisited". Dublin Review of Books. (June, 2020).
"Memory, Landscape and Loss in Irish Emigrant Women's Memoirs". Irish Women's Writing Network. (November 2020)
"Prologue to Forgetting". Dublin Review of Books. (June, 2019)
Media:
Britain was no paradise for Irish Emigrant Women. Irish Times.
The Irish in Argentina: Not always a successful diaspora. Irish Times.
Irish Migrant Psyche captured in cinema. Irish Times.
