Department of History | Roinn na Staire

Staff

You are here: Department of History » Staff » Research Staff » Postdoctoral » Byrne, Angela

Byrne, Angela, Dr.

Key Information
Email: 
byrne.at@gmail.com
Phone: 
+353-1-708 3729
Fax: 
+353-1-708 3314
Address: 
Rhetoric House, South Campus

Profile

I completed my Ph.D., ‘The Irish in Russia, 1690–1815: travel, gender and self-fashioning’, at NUI Maynooth in 2009. I am currently an IRCHSS Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of History, NUI Maynooth, and the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto, with a project entitled ‘Scientific and cultural researches in the sub-Arctic: a comparative study of exploratory travels in Scandinavia and Canada, 1800–1830’.

Research

My research interests centre around elite culture in Ireland and Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, focusing in particular on travels in, and travel writing about, Russia and Northern regions. My post-doctoral research concerns the travel accounts and scientific and cultural researches of a number of nineteenth-century British scientists and gentleman scholars in the Scandinavian and Canadian North.

Publications

  • Supplementing the Autobiography of Princess Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova: the Russian Diaries of Martha and Katherine Wilmot’ in Irish Slavonic Studies 23 (2011), pp 25–34
  • ‘Irish Soldiers in Russia, 1690–1812: a Reassessment’ in The Irish Sword 111 (2011), pp 43–58
  • 'Princess Dashkova and the Wilmot Sisters’ in Bernadette Cunningham & Siobhan Fitzpatrick (eds), Treasures of the Royal Irish Academy Library (Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2009), pp 248–55
  • “Why Wouldn’t They Content Themselves to Dress like Christians?’: Fashion and Self-Fashioning in Late Eighteenth-Century Russia’ in Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia Newsletter 37 (2009), pp 14–18

Accepted for Publication / In Preparation :

  • 'Entertainment, Memorials and Societies' in H.B. Clarke & Sarah Gearty (eds), Maps and Texts: Exploring the Irish Historic Towns Atlas (Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, in preparation)
  • [Peer-reviewed] "No Longer to be Gazed at as a Distant Glimmering Star': Irish-Born British Diplomats' Accounts of Russia, 1733-1767' in Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding & Ellen R. Welch (eds), Intermédiaires Culturels/Cultural Intermediaries (Paris: Honoré Champion, in preparation)
  • 'Imagining the Celtic North: Science and the Romantic on the Fringes of Britain' in Stefan Donecker, Ellen Barraclough & Danielle Cudmore (eds), The Supernatural North: Contributions to Circumpolar Studies series (Münster: Lit-Verlag, in preparation)
  • ''Beginning my Education ...': European Travel and the Women and Children of the Irish Elite, c. 1800-1830' in Robin Jarvis & Melanie Ord (eds), Reading, Writing and Travelling, 1600-1830 (in preparation)
  • co-editor with Sebastian Sobecki, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations of the English Nation (1598-1600), vol. 2 (14 vols, Oxford University Press, in preparation) 

 

Conference Papers and Invited Lectures

  • 'Interactions of Native and Newcomer Knowledge in Northern Regions, c. 1790-1830', Canadian Historical Association annual meeting (28-30 May 2012)
  • 'John Lee, Hartwell House, and Nineteenth-Century Female Astronomers', Female Explorers: Women's Scientific Travelling, 1750-1850 seminar, Nottingham Trent University (3 Mar. 2012)
  • 'Interpreting Displays of Romantic Science among Northern Indigenous Communities', Canadian Science and Technology Historical Association, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa (18-20 Nov. 2011)
  • 'British 'Men of Science' on the Northern Fringes of Empire, c. 1790-1830', research seminar, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (10 Nov. 2011) [invited lecture]
  • ''Our Surprizing Qualifications': Displays of Early Nineteenth-Century Science in Northern Native Communities', Savagism and Civilisation conference, University of Oklahoma (14 Oct. 2011)
  • 'Imagining the North: Science and Romanticism in the Subarctic, c. 1800-1830', International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences VII, Akureyri, Iceland (22-26 June 2011)
  • 'Landscapes of Memories: Early Nineteenth-Century British Exploratory Travels in the North', Canadian Historical Association annual meeting, University of New Brunswick and St Thomas University (30 May-1 June 2011)
  • 'John Lee: an Astronomer and Antiquary in Ireland, 1806-07', Adventures in Print: Travel Literature Through the Centuries conference, National Library of Ireland (12 Nov. 2010) [invited lecture]
  • "No Longer to be Gazed at as a Distant Glimmering Star': Irish-Born British Diplomats' Accounts of Russia, 1733-1767', International Society for Eighteenth- Century Studies international seminar for junior scholars, Queen's University Belfast (16-20 Aug. 2010)
  • 'Entertainment, Memorials and Societies', Maps and Texts: Exploring the Irish Historic Towns Atlas annual seminar, Royal Irish Academy (21 May 2010) [invited lecture]
  • 'An Alternative Biography of Princess Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova: the Russian Diaries of Martha and Katherine Wilmot', Irish Association for Russian, Central and East European Studies annual conference, University College Dublin (23-24 Apr. 2010)
  • 'The Russian Travels of Martha and Katherine Wilmot, 1803-08', Heritage Week lecture series, Midleton Library, Co. Cork (22 Aug. 2009) [invited lecture]
  • 'The European Travels of John and Dorothea Catherine Ladeveze-Adlercron of Moyglare, 1806-49', Maynooth Local History Society (14 May 2009) [invited lecture]
  • 'Irish Soldiers in Russia in the Long Eighteenth Century: an Overview', Centre for War Studies seminar series, University College Dublin (30 Apr. 2009) [invited lecture]
  • 'The Wilmot Papers: Travels in France, Russia and Italy, 1801-22', Treasures of the Royal Irish Academy lecture series, Royal Irish Academy (1 Apr. 2009) [invited lecture]
  • "Why Wouldn't they Content themselves to Dress like Christians?': Fashion and Self-Fashioning in Late Eighteenth-Century Russia', Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia annual meeting (5-7 Jan. 2009)
  • 'The Irish in Russia, 1690-1815: an Overview', American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies annual conference, Atlanta (22-25 Mar. 2007)
  • 'Irish Soldiers in Russia in the 'Long' Eighteenth Century', Ireland: Past and Present conference, Voronezh State University, Russia (15-16 May 2006) [invited lecture]
  • 'The Irish in Russia, 1690-1815: an Overview', Postgraduate colloquium, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (1 Mar. 2006) [invited lecture]
  • 'The Russian Diaries of Martha and Katherine Wilmot', Postgraduate history seminar, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (31 Mar. 2005) [invited lecture]
  • 'The Russian Diaries of Martha Wilmot', Irish History Students' Association annual conference, Trinity College Dublin (25-26 Feb. 2005)

 

ACADEMIC TEACHING

Department of History, National University of Ireland, Maynooth:

  • Lecturer, MA (Archival Studies) HY627: Presenting History (5 credits), 2012

 

MEMBERSHIPS

  • Founding member of the Centre for the Study of Wider Europe at NUI (Maynooth)
  • Canadian Science and Technology Historical Assocation; Canadian Historical Association; Network in Canadian History and Environment
  • Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society
  • Northern Research Network; International Arctic Social Sciences Association
  • International Society for Travel Writing; Centre de Recherche sur la Littérature des Voyages at Université Paris-Sorbonne/Paris IV