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Employment (6)

Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology: Dublin, IE

2021-06-01 to present | Lecturer in Design History
Employment
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Sorcha O'Brien

TU Dublin: Dublin, Dublin, IE

2020-09-01 to present | Associate Lecturer in Design History (School of Art and Design)
Employment
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Sorcha O'Brien

National College of Art and Design: Dublin, IE

2016-09-01 to 2021-08-31 | Assistant Lecturer in Design History
Employment
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Sorcha O'Brien

Kingston University: Kingston-Upon-Thames, London, GB

2012-09-01 to 2019-12-31 | Senior Lecturer in Design History & Theory (Kingston School of Art)
Employment
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Sorcha O'Brien

Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology: Dublin, Dublin, IE

2008 to 2011 | Assistant Lecturer in Design History (School of Art, Design & Media)
Employment
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Sorcha O'Brien

National College of Art and Design: Dublin, IE

2000 to 2008 | Associate Lecturer in Design History (School of Visual Culture)
Employment
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Sorcha O'Brien

Education and qualifications (3)

University of Brighton: Brighton, East Sussex, GB

2005 to 2011 | PhD (Design History)
Education
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Sorcha O'Brien

Middlesex University: London, London, GB

1997 to 1998 | MA in Design History
Education
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Sorcha O'Brien

National College of Art and Design: Dublin, IE

1992 to 1996 | BDes in Industrial Design (Industrial Design)
Education
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Sorcha O'Brien

Professional activities (3)

Society for the History of Technology: Eindhoven, NL

Membership
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Sorcha O'Brien

Institute of Designers in Ireland : Dublin, IE

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Sorcha O'Brien

Design History Society: London, GB

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Sorcha O'Brien

Funding (7)

Conference Grant: Kitchen Power: National Parallels

The Electrification of the Rural Irish Home: Housewives, Electrical Products and Domesticity in the 1950s and 1960s

Travel Grant: Kitchen Power

2015 to 2015 | Grant
Design History Society (London, GB)
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Sorcha O'Brien

Travel Grant: Kitchen Power

2015 to 2015 | Grant
Alfaro Hofmann Collection (Valencia, ES)
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Sorcha O'Brien

Brooke Hindle Postdoctoral Fellowship

2014-01 to 2014-04 | Award
Society for the History of Technology (Eindhoven, NL)
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Sorcha O'Brien

Doctoral Funding: Representing the Shannon Scheme: electrical technology, modernisation and national identity in the Irish Free State, 1924-32’

2005-09 to 2011-06 | Grant
Arts and Humanities Research Council (Swindon, GB)
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Sorcha O'Brien

Research Award: Royal Hibernian Academy Thomas Damman Junior Memorial Trust Award

2005 to 2005 | Grant
Thomas Damman Junior Memorial Trust (Dublin, IE)
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Sorcha O'Brien

Works (15)

Electricity, modernity and tradition during Irish rural electrification, 1940-1970

Journal of Electricity History
2023-05-03 | Journal article | Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
Contributors: Sorcha O'Brien
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Sorcha O'Brien

Ardnacrusha was a defining moment in history of Ireland

Irish Examiner
2022-03-24 | Newspaper article
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Sorcha O'Brien

Brown Bread and Washing Machines: Nostalgia and Perspective in Irish Women’s Experiences of Rural Electrification

In A New Light: Histories of Women and Energy, 1800-1990
2021-07 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9780228006190
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Sorcha O'Brien

Visions of Home: Nostalgia and Mobility, Past and Future in Serenity’s Domestic Spaceship Interior

Screen Interiors: From Country Houses to Cosmic Heteropias
2021-03-11 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781350150591
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Sorcha O'Brien

Kitchen Power: Women's Experiences of Rural Electrification

National Museum of Ireland - Country Life
2019-07-19 | Other
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Sorcha O'Brien

‘Made in Ireland’? National Narratives and Hybrid Identities in Irish Design History

Writing Visual Culture
2017-12-15 | Journal article
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Sorcha O'Brien

Powering the Nation: Images of the Shannon Scheme and Electricity in Ireland

Irish Academic Press
2017-11-29 | Book
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Sorcha O'Brien

Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design

Bloomsbury Academic
2015-11-05 | Edited book
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Sorcha O'Brien

Love Objects: Emotion, Design and Material Culture

Bloomsbury Academic
2014-08-28 | Edited book
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Sorcha O'Brien

Behind the Interface: Space, Time and Infrastructure in Internet-Based Delivery for Design Education

Pilots Channel
2013 | Magazine article
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Sorcha O'Brien

Exhibition Review of: ‘The moderns: the arts in Ireland from the 1900s to the 1970s’ at The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin’

Artefact, Issue 5
2011 | Book review
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Sorcha O'Brien

Technology & Modernity: The Shannon Scheme and Visions of Progress

Ireland, Design and Visual Culture: Negotiating Modernity, 1922-1992
2011 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781859184721
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Sorcha O'Brien

Images of Ardnacrusha: technology, modernity and photography in the Irish Free State

Ireland in Focus: Ireland and Visual Representation
2009 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9780815632030
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Sorcha O'Brien

Photographic Connections: electrical technology in the making of Ireland in the 1920s

Networks of design: proceedings of the 2008 annual international conference of the Design History Society (UK): University College Falmouth 3-6 September
2009 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781599429069
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Sorcha O'Brien

MUJI: A study of nation, international and corporate identity

Thought Lines: An Anthology of Student Research
1998 | Book chapter
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Sorcha O'Brien