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Ciara Breathnach is Associate Professor in history at the University of Limerick and an Irish Research Council Laureate Awardee. She has published widely on Irish social, gender, health, diaspora and medical history. Her second monograph is Ordinary Lives, Death and Social Class: Dublin City Coroner’s Court, 1876-1902 (Oxford University Press, 2022)