Dr Gillian Kenny

Published & forthcoming

Books

Gillian is the author of Anglo-Irish and Gaelic Women in Ireland, c.1170–1540, a pioneering study of women’s rights and experiences across Ireland’s Gaelic and Anglo-Irish communities. She was also commissioned by the Royal Irish Academy to research and write the medieval history of Knowth and its hinterland, published in the co-authored volume Historical Knowth and its Hinterland.

  1. Cover of Anglo-Irish and Gaelic Women in Ireland, c.1170–1540

    Kenny, Gillian. Anglo-Irish and Gaelic Women in Ireland, c.1170–1540. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007. 304 pages, illustrated. ISBN: 9781851829842.

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  2. Cover of Historical Knowth and its Hinterland

    Byrne, Francis John, William Jenkins, Gillian Kenny and Catherine Swift. Historical Knowth and its Hinterland. Excavations at Knowth, vol. 4. With an introduction by George Eogan. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2008. xxxi + 321 pages. ISBN: 9781904890300.

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Gillian is currently writing two books for Yale University Press: a new biography of Gráinne O’Malley and A Social and Cultural History of Ireland, c.400–1600.