Margaret M. Scull
Dr Margaret M. Scull, BA Boston University, MA King’s College London, PhD King’s College London Dr Maggie Scull is Irish Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the Moore Institute, NUI Galway. Before joining the Moore Institute she was a Teaching Fellow in Modern British and Irish History at King’s College London. Her interdisciplinary research explores the relationship religion and politics in the contemporary period. She examines the ‘soft power’ influence religious leaders still possessed in British and Irish politics after the Second World War. Her current project examines the role of funerals throughout the Northern Irish ‘Troubles’. In addition, her monograph The Catholic Church and the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’, 1968-98 will be out with Oxford University Press in September 2019. In 2016, she co-organised the ‘Rethinking the 1980/81 Hunger Strikes’ Project with Dr Alison Garden, which examined the legacy of the strikes for British and Irish politics and culture. To mark the twentieth anniversary of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, in 2018 she co-organised ‘Agreement 20’ project, a two-day symposium at the Irish World Heritage Centre in Manchester.
