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Maria Luddy

Maria Luddy was born in 1958 and spent her childhood in Ballycullane, Co. Wexford, Westport Co. Mayo and Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. She was educated at Presentation Convent, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, and at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick. She worked for several years as a primary-school teacher in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford and Tipperary Town. She was awarded an MA in history in 1985 and a PhD in 1989 from UCC. With Mary Cullen she established the Feminist History Forum in Dublin in 1987, which provided a space where historians of women could discuss their work. She was also a founder member of the Women's History Association of Ireland (1989). She has held a teaching position at Warwick University in Coventry, England since 1991 and is a Reader in the Department of History there. From 1997 to 2001 she was director of the Women's History Project which was based in Dublin and funded by the Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands. Her research interests include 19th and 20th century Irish history, with a specific focus on Irish women's history. She is particularly interested in "outcast" women, prostitutes, vagrants, unmarried mothers, and those destitute women who used the workhouse. Source: Wikipedia.org

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