History Research Seminar Series: “Irishwomen in late nineteenth-century Russia: Three transnational lives”

Dr. Angela Byrne is Research Associate at Ulster University. She specializes in the histories of migration, travel and exploration, and women’s history. She is author of Geographies of the Romantic North: Science, Antiquarianism, and Travel, 1790–1830 (Palgrave, 2013) and A Scientific, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour: John (Fiott) Lee in Ireland, England and Wales, 1806–07 (Hakluyt Society, 2018). Her paper at the History Research Seminar draws on a monograph she is currently writing on Irish encounters with Russia from 1690 to 1917 and is entitled “Irishwomen in late nineteenth-century Russia: Three transnational lives”.