Dr Oisín Wall is a historian of marginalised communities in 20th Century Ireland and Britain. He is a Lecturer at University College Cork’s Radical Humanities Laboratory and the School of History, and also holds a Wellcome Fellowship for the project ‘We are the Heroin Capital of Europe:’ Marginal Communities, Health, Identity, and the Opioid Epidemic in Twentieth-Century Ireland. Wall has written two monographs. His book on the prisoners' rights movement in late-20th century Ireland, Prisoners’ Bodies: Activism, Health, and the Prisoners’ Rights Movement in Ireland, 1972-85, will be published by McGill-Queens University Press in 2024. His first monograph explored the intersection of institutional psychiatry and the counter-culture in 1960’s London (The British Anti-Psychiatrists, Routledge: 2017). He has published articles on the histories of prison activism, drug-use, and psychiatry; as well as museum studies and education. Beyond his academic publications he has curated three major international exhibitions on prison and medical history at the Science Museum (London) and Kilmainham Gaol Museum (Dublin). Wall is also a member of the Society for the Social History of Medicine’s executive committee and the editor of the society’s Gazette. If you would like to discuss doctoral and post-doctoral mentorship feel free to email me. I am interested in supervising research related to: Drugs history/history of intoxicationPrison historyHistory of psychiatryHistory of sub- or counter-culturesHistory of psychiatryMarginalised communities' histories including:People who are, or have been, incarceratedPeople who use drugsCommunities of sex workersLGBTQI+ communitiesThe Traveller community

I teach contemporary Irish history and the histories of marginalised communities, particularly people who have been incarcerated. Research supervision: I am interested in supervising research related to marginalised communities in 20th century Ireland, for instance: People who are, or have been, incarceratedPeople who use drugsCommunities of sex workersLGBTQI+ communitiesThe Traveller communityI am also interested in supervising histories of medicine, including psychiatry.