CARA DELAY (religion, culture, and gender in nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland) received her PhD in Comparative History from Brandeis University in 2002. Before coming to the University of Charleston she taught at Framingham State College.
Her dissertation The Fire of Devotion: Catholicism, Conflict, and Community Life in Rural Ireland, 1850-1920. was awarded the American Conference for Irish Studies Adele Dalsimer Prize for a Distinguished Dissertation, 2003.

Her book entitled Women, Church, and Community in Catholic Ireland, 1840-1920 is being solicited by The University of Notre Dame Press and the Catholic University of America Press.

Dr. Delay's publications are "Confidantes or Competitors? Women, Priests, and Conflict in Post-Famine Ireland," Eire-Ireland 40, 1&2 (Spring/Summer 2005): 107-125.; "The Devotional Revolution on the Local Level: Parish Life in Post-Famine Ireland," U.S. Catholic Historian 22, 3 (Summer 2004): 41-60.; and Review of Muslim Women in the UK and Beyond: Experiences and Images, ed. Haifaa Jawad and Tansin Benn (Leiden: Brill,2003) in Hawwa, Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World 3,2 (2005).
Her curent monograph in progress is entitled Uncharitable Tongues; Women, Language, and Power in Modern Ireland. Recent journal publications forthcoming are: "Churching and Changelings: Women and Birth Rituals in Rural Ireland." and "'The Thunders of the Altar': Irish Catholics and Chapel Conflicts in the Nineteenth Century."

Courses :
Fall 2008:
HIST 101.10, 13

HIST 241.002 HIST Historian’s Craft: Birth, Death, and the Human Lifecycle

This is a topics-based course in which students deal with different types of historical materials to develop skills in research, writing, critical thinking, oral presentation, and the use of computers. The topic for fall 2008 is Birth, Death, and the Human Lifecycle. Students will explore the different ways in which individuals, communities, and states have interpreted and marked the human lifecycle across time and space. Readings will focus on Europe with comparative dimensions as well.

Contact:
Cara Delay, Assistant Professor

Email: delayc@cofc.edu
Office: Maybank 327
Hours: by appt.
Phone: 953-2171

HONS 391 ST: The Great Hunger-Famine in Ireland