Dr Maeve O’Riordan is lecturer in Women’s and Cultural History at University College Cork. She is author of Women of the Irish Country House, 1860-1914 (Liverpool: LUP, 2018) and several other pieces on elite women in Ireland. She is currently exploring the experiences of single women. Maeve previously worked at the Higher Education Authority and the Irish Research Council. She won Irish Research Council funding for her PhD (UCC, 2014) and postdoc (Maynooth University).

http://research.ucc.ie/profiles/A019/maeve.oriordan@ucc.ie