Cathryn Molloy
Biographic Data
| ID | 91965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cathryn Molloy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cathryn |
| FAMILY NAME | Molloy |
| SIGNATURE | MOLLOY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5420-8830 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Towards Historical Victimology: Revisiting Joyriding in 1980s Ireland
In 1980s, Ireland a perceived social crisis surrounded joyriding. Based on original archival research, this paper examines the antecedents and legacies of this episode. A combination of rising car ownership, media panic and victim mobilization pressurised a political response. Legislative and institutional measures proved disproportionate and panicked. Cultural artefacts including a play Joyriders (1987, written by Christina Reid) and eponymous f…
Recapturing the Bugsy Malones
In the late 1970s, a criminal-based youth subculture known as the Bugsy Malones emerged in inner-city Dublin. Through the use of oral history interviews, this article avails of 'proximate voices' to shed light on the Bugsy Malones' socio-economic background, their individual and group characteristics, and the rise of a subcultural mythology because of the involvement of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch (a well-known Irish figure linked to organised crime) …
The Loughan House Controversy: Moral Panic, Youth Deviance and the Failure of Political Imagination in 1970s Ireland
In October 1978, a detention centre known as Loughan House opened near Blacklion, Co. Cavan for young offenders between twelve and sixteen years of age. The history of this episode survives in folk memory as a disproportionate reaction to a perceived social crisis surrounding juvenile crime in 1970s Ireland. In order to assess the accuracy of this existing narrative, this article examines the episode through the lens of moral panic theory [MPT]. …
The Kerry Babies, criminology, and Reinhart Koselleck
The Kerry Babies case was a criminal investigation that followed the discovery of a dead infant on a beach in the southwest of Ireland in April 1984. Charges were laid and dismissed. A tribunal of inquiry into alleged police malpractice followed, and the case returned to the courts 35 years later. This paper takes a multidimensional approach to historical time, drawing on the works of German philosopher Reinhart Koselleck to analyse the case, its…
The Failure of Feminism? Rape Law Reform in the Republic of Ireland, 1980–2017
Based on Carol Smart's observation that rape law reform as lobbied for by the feminist movement during the 1970s and 1980s failed to achieve any meaningful change, this article seeks to examine the nature and implications of rape law reform in the Republic of Ireland from the 1980s to the present day. During the 1980s the conceptualization of rape changed from a proprietorial crime to a violation of individual bodily integrity due to feminist lob…
Getting By or Getting In? Grappling With Access and Affect in Qualitative Research Projects Involving Vulnerable Human Subjects
This article sketches out a terrain for the concept "access" to expand beyond its more familiar iterations in the discourses surrounding qualitative projects. In parts, there are opacious accounts of the author's qualitative project's inception and varied intellectual and personal inspirations and struggles. In other sections, a splintered narrative account of pursuits of and everyday encounters with access come into the fray. The article meander…
The Failure of Feminism? Rape Law Reform in the Republic of Ireland, 1980–2017
Based on Carol Smart's observation that rape law reform as lobbied for by the feminist movement during the 1970s and 1980s failed to achieve any meaningful change, this article seeks to examine the nature and implications of rape law reform in the Republic of Ireland from the 1980s to the present day. During the 1980s the conceptualization of rape changed from a proprietorial crime to a violation of individual bodily integrity due to feminist lob…
Recapturing the Bugsy Malones
In the late 1970s, a criminal-based youth subculture known as the Bugsy Malones emerged in inner-city Dublin. Through the use of oral history interviews, this article avails of 'proximate voices' to shed light on the Bugsy Malones' socio-economic background, their individual and group characteristics, and the rise of a subcultural mythology because of the involvement of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch (a well-known Irish figure linked to organised crime) …
Getting By or Getting In? Grappling With Access and Affect in Qualitative Research Projects Involving Vulnerable Human Subjects
This article sketches out a terrain for the concept "access" to expand beyond its more familiar iterations in the discourses surrounding qualitative projects. In parts, there are opacious accounts of the author's qualitative project's inception and varied intellectual and personal inspirations and struggles. In other sections, a splintered narrative account of pursuits of and everyday encounters with access come into the fray. The article meander…
Getting By or Getting In? Grappling With Access and Affect in Qualitative Research Projects Involving Vulnerable Human Subjects
This article sketches out a terrain for the concept "access" to expand beyond its more familiar iterations in the discourses surrounding qualitative projects. In parts, there are opacious accounts of the author's qualitative project's inception and varied intellectual and personal inspirations and struggles. In other sections, a splintered narrative account of pursuits of and everyday encounters with access come into the fray. The article meander…
The Failure of Feminism? Rape Law Reform in the Republic of Ireland, 1980–2017
Based on Carol Smart's observation that rape law reform as lobbied for by the feminist movement during the 1970s and 1980s failed to achieve any meaningful change, this article seeks to examine the nature and implications of rape law reform in the Republic of Ireland from the 1980s to the present day. During the 1980s the conceptualization of rape changed from a proprietorial crime to a violation of individual bodily integrity due to feminist lob…
The Loughan House Controversy: Moral Panic, Youth Deviance and the Failure of Political Imagination in 1970s Ireland
In October 1978, a detention centre known as Loughan House opened near Blacklion, Co. Cavan for young offenders between twelve and sixteen years of age. The history of this episode survives in folk memory as a disproportionate reaction to a perceived social crisis surrounding juvenile crime in 1970s Ireland. In order to assess the accuracy of this existing narrative, this article examines the episode through the lens of moral panic theory [MPT]. …
The Kerry Babies, criminology, and Reinhart Koselleck
The Kerry Babies case was a criminal investigation that followed the discovery of a dead infant on a beach in the southwest of Ireland in April 1984. Charges were laid and dismissed. A tribunal of inquiry into alleged police malpractice followed, and the case returned to the courts 35 years later. This paper takes a multidimensional approach to historical time, drawing on the works of German philosopher Reinhart Koselleck to analyse the case, its…
Recapturing the Bugsy Malones
In the late 1970s, a criminal-based youth subculture known as the Bugsy Malones emerged in inner-city Dublin. Through the use of oral history interviews, this article avails of 'proximate voices' to shed light on the Bugsy Malones' socio-economic background, their individual and group characteristics, and the rise of a subcultural mythology because of the involvement of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch (a well-known Irish figure linked to organised crime) …
Towards Historical Victimology: Revisiting Joyriding in 1980s Ireland
In 1980s, Ireland a perceived social crisis surrounded joyriding. Based on original archival research, this paper examines the antecedents and legacies of this episode. A combination of rising car ownership, media panic and victim mobilization pressurised a political response. Legislative and institutional measures proved disproportionate and panicked. Cultural artefacts including a play Joyriders (1987, written by Christina Reid) and eponymous f…
Sociology (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works)