Dr Triona Waters

MA, PHD

Contact Details

Post Doctoral Researcher
E: Triona.Waters@nuigalway.ie
 
researcher
 

Biography

Postdoctoral Researcher at The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, National University of Ireland, Galway. Awarded Royal College of Physicians (Ireland) Medical History Research Award, 2018. Historian of medicine and institutions. My research interests are mental health histories using oral history methodologies. Currently working on a project investigating Ireland's Mother and Baby institutions in response to the 2021 publication of the Final Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes under the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. Sitting member on Irish Committee of Historical Sciences. Representative of IHSA, 2016-current.

Peer Reviewed Journals

  Year Publication
(2020) 'They opened up to us because they trusted us.' Working life at St. Brigid's Psychiatric Hospital, Ballinasloe, 1940-2000''
Triona Waters (2020) 'They opened up to us because they trusted us.' Working life at St. Brigid's Psychiatric Hospital, Ballinasloe, 1940-2000''. Saothar: Journal Of The Irish Labour History Society, 45 [Details]

Other Journals

  Year Publication
(2020) 'There is nothing so shocking as madness.' Rationalising the Limerick District Lunatic Asylum, 1772-1827''
Triona Waters (2020) 'There is nothing so shocking as madness.' Rationalising the Limerick District Lunatic Asylum, 1772-1827'' Liverpool Postgraduate Journal of Irish Studies, 4 . [Details]
(2018) 'This practice of chaining human creatures is very reprehensible.' Welfare of the mentally ill in eighteenth century Ireland''
Triona Waters (2018) 'This practice of chaining human creatures is very reprehensible.' Welfare of the mentally ill in eighteenth century Ireland'' History Studies, 20 . [Details]