Bronagh McShane is a social historian specialising in the history of women, religion and confessionalisation in early modern Ireland and Europe. She completed her PhD (Irish Research Council-funded) at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth in 2015. She has published articles on aspects of her research in leading peer-reviewed journals in the fields of religious and digital history, including British Catholic History, Archivium Hibernicum and the Journal of Historical Network Research. She currently holds a post-doctoral research fellowship from the National University of Ireland to write her monograph, provisionally entitled, ‘Irish Women in Religious Orders, c.1530-1756’.

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