Clodagh Tait lectures in Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. She is the author of Death, Burial and Commemoration in Ireland, 1550-1650 (2002) and co-editor of Religion and Politics in Urban Ireland (2016) and Age of Atrocity: Violence and Political Conflict in Early Modern Ireland (2007). She is a current joint editor of Irish Historical Studies. She has written numerous articles on Irish social and cultural history, including the history of violence, martyrdom and protest; pregnancy, childbirth, (wet-)nursing and child-rearing; religious devotion; ideas about the supernatural; and the history of emotion. Principally an early modernist, her recent research also considers the folklore of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her article on the supernatural labours of Irish mothers was in a Past and Present Supplement, Mothering’s Many Labours, in 2020, and she published seven short articles for Birth and the Irish (edited by Salvador Ryan, 2021). Her forthcoming article on women’s and gender history in early modern Ireland will appear in a special issue of Irish Historical Studies, ‘Revisiting the Agenda for Women’s History’, in November 2022. She is writing a book on the history of cursing in Ireland between about 1550 and 1950.