I am a PhD student in the School of HAPP. I have a BA in History from Balliol College, Oxford and an M.Phil in Modern Irish History from Trinity College, Dublin. My PhD project is entitled, ‘"Let the girl go home": gender and political imprisonment in Britain and Ireland, 1939-1945’ and considers the impact of gender on the imprisonment of female republicans in Britain, Northern Ireland and independent Ireland between 1939 and 1945. It is aimed at comparing experiences and exploring how lives were changed as a result of imprisonment. More broadly, I am interested in women’s and gender history, Irish political and social history and the history of imprisonment.