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I enjoy research and love to present my findings. Below is a list of papers that I have presented and some of my publications and online posts.
Presentations at conferences ordered from most recent:
‘The History of Parliament: The place of Public History in academic institutions’ at Public History Graduate Conference (September 2023)
‘Troubling Representations: Presenting the Troubles in English military museums’ at Public History Graduate Conference (September 2022).
‘Grad Student Takeover’ at What is Public History Now? (September 2022)
‘“Let Englishmen fight English wars”: Representations of Ireland in WWI in the television series Rebellion’ at the First World War Cinema Conference (September 2022)
‘Small Budget, Big Impact: Interrogating Hardy’ at Museums Matter conference (September 2022)
‘Transitioning after genocide: The impact that the representation of the voices of rape victims in film can have for national reconciliation’ at LHPC Hist Fest (June 2022).
Publications and online posts:
Kirsty O’Rourke, ‘A Sunday to Remember’, Epoch Magazine, 8 (June 2022), available: https://www.epoch-magazine.com/post/a-sunday-to-remember
‘The origins of Sinn Féin’, The History of Parliament, (September 2023): https://thehistoryofparliament.wordpress.com/2023/09/12/the-origins-of-sinn-fein/
‘Sinn Féin: A 20th Century History of Party Splits’, The History of Parliament, (September 2023): https://thehistoryofparliament.wordpress.com/2023/09/14/sinn-fein-a-20th-century-history-of-party-splits/
Placement at Wessex Museums, Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past (2022): https://www.york.ac.uk/ipup/blogs/kirsty-orourke-wessex-museum/
The origin and evolution of Father Christmas, Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past (2021): https://www.york.ac.uk/ipup/blogs/kirsty-o-rourke/
Wessex Museums blog posts: https://www.wessexmuseums.org.uk/love-through-a-victorian-writers-lens/; https://www.wessexmuseums.org.uk/did-thomas-hardy-breakthebias/; https://www.wessexmuseums.org.uk/kirsty-pioneers-our-hardy-podcasting-project/
I also have a personal blog, however I haven’t written anything recently. Find it here: https://existentialhistorian.home.blog/