Margaret O’neill
Biographic Data
| ID | 3940983 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret O’neill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret |
| FAMILY NAME | O’neill |
| SIGNATURE | O’NEILL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7990-2493 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Midlife progress and the Reifungsroman as civic engagement in Fredrik Backman’s Britt-Marie Was Here and Marian Keyes’s My Favourite Mistake
This article examines how midlife and later-life development function as forms of civic engagement in Fredrik Backman’s Britt-Marie Was Here (2016) and Marian Keyes’s My Favourite Mistake (2024). Reading the novels through the lenses of ageing studies and cultural gerontology, it argues that women’s ageing is represented as a mode of public labour grounded in maintenance, mediation, and the management of social atmosphere. Drawing on Margaret Gul…
Digital technology design in ageing and engaged societies
Although the equity of many international societies are impacted by intersecting digitalisation and demographic transitions, deficits in digital application innovation for older people continue to be documented. This compromises the capacity of older people to be full citizens in current, and future societies. Utilising a research-informed multistakeholder process, this article investigates design and development considerations for a digital appl…
Restorying Ageing
There is a growing body of interdisciplinary literature on the cultural representation of ageing and its impact on older women’s lived experiences; however, there is a lack of research exploring how older women engage in restorying these representations through creative life writing. In doing so, this article contributes to life-writing studies, age studies, and social gerontology. It draws on focus group discussions, follow-up interviews, and cr…
‘In a hospital bed or … out doing Indiana Jones’
There is a growing body of interdisciplinary literature on the representation and construction of ageing masculinities; however, there is a lack of specific analysis of older men's responses to cultural images of ageing. It is important to examine how cultural meanings around ageing may inform older men's lived experiences, an underexplored aspect of gender and social relations. This article does so and contributes to social gerontology and mascu…
Wedded to the land? Representations of rural ageing masculinities in Irish culture and society
This article explores the interactions between social constructions and cultural representations of rural ageing masculinities in Ireland. Constructions of Irish masculinities have historically been linked to rural, farming identities emphasising physicality, self-reliance, patrilineal inheritance and traditional (Catholic) family values. Central to such constructions in many classic works of Irish literature, drama and film has been the powerful…
The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Working Lives and Retirement Timing of Older Nurses in Ireland
COVID-19 profoundly affected Irish citizens. The effects have been especially pronounced for nurses in front-line, clinical and management roles. This article discusses the national and employer policy context relevant to nurses in Ireland. There have been staff and bed shortages in public hospitals since austerity policies were introduced following the global financial crisis. Government measures responding to the pandemic include initial 'cocoo…
Women and Ageing
As Penelope Lively puts it in her memoir Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time: ‘One of the few advantages of age is that you can report on it with a certain authority; you are a native now, a
A Bionian Reading of the Mother in Anne Enright’s The Green Road
Anne Enright’s The Green Road (2015a) centers on the mother, Rosaleen. When she leaves her children and her home in the West of Ireland to walk the Green Road, Rosaleen asks herself, “Where did it begin?,” which is “more a cadence than a question” (p. 259). Her journey echoes that described by Wilfred Bion, with reference to Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “like one that on a lonesome road, doth walk in fear and dread” (Bion, 1970, p. 46). Rosaleen is a…
Kate O'Brien and the Fiction of Identity
This is the first full-length critical study of Kate O'Brien in some time, and represents an important intervention in the field. It comes on the back of an excellent biography by Eibhear Walshe an
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Kate O'Brien and the Fiction of Identity
This is the first full-length critical study of Kate O'Brien in some time, and represents an important intervention in the field. It comes on the back of an excellent biography by Eibhear Walshe an
A Bionian Reading of the Mother in Anne Enright’s The Green Road
Anne Enright’s The Green Road (2015a) centers on the mother, Rosaleen. When she leaves her children and her home in the West of Ireland to walk the Green Road, Rosaleen asks herself, “Where did it begin?,” which is “more a cadence than a question” (p. 259). Her journey echoes that described by Wilfred Bion, with reference to Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “like one that on a lonesome road, doth walk in fear and dread” (Bion, 1970, p. 46). Rosaleen is a…
Women and Ageing
As Penelope Lively puts it in her memoir Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time: ‘One of the few advantages of age is that you can report on it with a certain authority; you are a native now, a
The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Working Lives and Retirement Timing of Older Nurses in Ireland
COVID-19 profoundly affected Irish citizens. The effects have been especially pronounced for nurses in front-line, clinical and management roles. This article discusses the national and employer policy context relevant to nurses in Ireland. There have been staff and bed shortages in public hospitals since austerity policies were introduced following the global financial crisis. Government measures responding to the pandemic include initial 'cocoo…
Wedded to the land? Representations of rural ageing masculinities in Irish culture and society
This article explores the interactions between social constructions and cultural representations of rural ageing masculinities in Ireland. Constructions of Irish masculinities have historically been linked to rural, farming identities emphasising physicality, self-reliance, patrilineal inheritance and traditional (Catholic) family values. Central to such constructions in many classic works of Irish literature, drama and film has been the powerful…
‘In a hospital bed or … out doing Indiana Jones’
There is a growing body of interdisciplinary literature on the representation and construction of ageing masculinities; however, there is a lack of specific analysis of older men's responses to cultural images of ageing. It is important to examine how cultural meanings around ageing may inform older men's lived experiences, an underexplored aspect of gender and social relations. This article does so and contributes to social gerontology and mascu…
Midlife progress and the Reifungsroman as civic engagement in Fredrik Backman’s Britt-Marie Was Here and Marian Keyes’s My Favourite Mistake
This article examines how midlife and later-life development function as forms of civic engagement in Fredrik Backman’s Britt-Marie Was Here (2016) and Marian Keyes’s My Favourite Mistake (2024). Reading the novels through the lenses of ageing studies and cultural gerontology, it argues that women’s ageing is represented as a mode of public labour grounded in maintenance, mediation, and the management of social atmosphere. Drawing on Margaret Gul…
Digital technology design in ageing and engaged societies
Although the equity of many international societies are impacted by intersecting digitalisation and demographic transitions, deficits in digital application innovation for older people continue to be documented. This compromises the capacity of older people to be full citizens in current, and future societies. Utilising a research-informed multistakeholder process, this article investigates design and development considerations for a digital appl…
Restorying Ageing
There is a growing body of interdisciplinary literature on the cultural representation of ageing and its impact on older women’s lived experiences; however, there is a lack of research exploring how older women engage in restorying these representations through creative life writing. In doing so, this article contributes to life-writing studies, age studies, and social gerontology. It draws on focus group discussions, follow-up interviews, and cr…
Sociology (6 works) · Irish (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (2 works)