Dr Dympna McLoughlin RIP

​It is with great sadness that we acknowledge the recent passing of Dr Dympna McLoughlin, long-serving lecturer in History at Maynooth University.
 
Dympna, a graduate of Maynooth and Syracuse universities, was a historian of nineteenth-century Ireland, who published path-breaking work on women, workhouses, sexuality and emigration. Her research featured in two of the great cooperative endeavours of Irish history, namely the Atlas of the Great Irish Famine and volume five of the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing.
 
She was also an influential and much-loved teacher and supervisor of work on Irish social history, who inspired hundreds of undergraduate students during her more than thirty years at Maynooth, and steered dozens of postgraduate students through Masters and PhD research. Dympna believed strongly in widening access to education. She leaves an enduring legacy and will be fondly remembered by all who knew her. Our condolences go to her family, friends and colleagues.