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Dr Helen O'Connell's Outputs (11)

The Nature of Improvement (2019)
Book Chapter
O'Connell, H. (2019). The Nature of Improvement. In M. (. Kelly (Ed.), Nature and the Environment in Ireland in the Nineteenth Century. Liverpool University Press

Bleak Food: William Wilde, Famine and Gastronomy (2018)
Journal Article
O'Connell, H. (2018). Bleak Food: William Wilde, Famine and Gastronomy. Canadian journal of Irish studies, 41, 156-178. https://doi.org/10.2307/26435226

Gastronomy might appear to be an unlikely context for any consideration of William Wilde’s well-known 1854 essay, “the Food of the Irish.” After all, that essay is primarily preoccupied by the recent Famine and the presumed absence of any culinary sk... Read More about Bleak Food: William Wilde, Famine and Gastronomy.

Animal welfare in Post-Union Ireland (2015)
Journal Article
O'Connell, H. (2015). Animal welfare in Post-Union Ireland. New hibernia review, 19(1), 34-52. https://doi.org/10.1353/nhr.2015.0004

The place of animals in English culture of the Romantic and Victorian periods has been widely explored, but the topic remains generally unexamined in the literary, social, and cultural history of Romantic-period and nineteenth-century Ireland.1 This... Read More about Animal welfare in Post-Union Ireland.

"A Raking Pot of Tea": Consumption and Excess in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland (2012)
Journal Article
O'Connell, H. (2012). "A Raking Pot of Tea": Consumption and Excess in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Literature and History, 21(2), 32-47. https://doi.org/10.7227/lh.21.2.3

Tea became a mainstay of many people's diets in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Ireland. However, this development was controversial. In a period of heightened counter-revolutionary anxiety, tea held a range of negative associat... Read More about "A Raking Pot of Tea": Consumption and Excess in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland.

The Fiction of Improvement (2005)
Book Chapter
O'Connell, H. (2005). The Fiction of Improvement. In J. B. (ed) (Ed.), The Irish Novel in the Nineteenth Century. Dublin: Four Courts Press