Research Proposal - Women as Survivors of Civil War Violence: A Comparative Study of Ireland and Spain

My research will analyse and compare the personal memory of gendered violence in the Irish and Spanish Civil Wars, as understood by the women who experienced it. I will use a transnational historiographical approach grounded in critical gender theory as well as memory and trauma theory.

Apr 19, 2022

Mairéad Butler

Postgraduate Student, Central European University, Universidad de Granada, Trinity College Dublin

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Mairéad Butler (She/Her)

Postgraduate Student, Central European University, Universidad de Granada, Trinity College Dublin

I'm an Erasmus Mundus MA in Women's and Gender Studies (GEMMA) student in Central European University, Vienna and the Universidad de Granada. I'm a BA (Hons) European Studies graduate, Gold Medallist, and Laidlaw Scholar (2022-23) at Trinity College Dublin.

My feminist historical research focuses on the intersection of motherhood, public health, and restorative justice in (post)colonial, Catholic contexts, with an emphasis on Ireland.

My Laidlaw research (2022) consisted of a comparative study of experiences of and discourses around gender-based violence in the Irish and Spanish Civil Wars (1922-23 and 1936-39 respectively). For my LiA (2023) I worked with Women Rights Initiative (WORI), a grassroots women's rights NGO in Uganda, on resource mobilisation and social enterprise business planning.