Article

O'Brien, Sorcha (2017) 'Made in Ireland'? National narratives and hybrid identities in Irish design history. Writing Visual Culture, 8, ISSN (online) 2049-7180

O'Brien, Sorcha (2016) Siemens Archive Munich Travel Report. Design History Society Blog - Reports,

O'Brien, Sorcha (2014) Review of The Story of Design. Journal of Design History, 27(4), pp. 413-414. ISSN (print) 0952-4649

O'Brien, Sorcha (2011) Exhibition Review of: 'The moderns: the arts in Ireland from the 1900s to the 1970s' at The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. Artefact(5), pp. 83-89. ISSN (print) 2009-0528

Book

O'brien, Sorcha (2017) Powering the nation : images of the Shannon scheme and electricity in Ireland. Newbridge, Ireland : Irish Academic Press. 344p. ISBN 9781911024675

Edwards, Clive , O'Brien, Sorcha , Atkinson, Harriet , Kettley, Sarah , Bhagat, Dipti , Raizman, David and Willis, Anne-Marie, eds. (2015) Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. 1533p. ISBN 9781472521576

Moran, Anna and O'Brien, Sorcha, eds. (2014) Love objects: emotion, design and material culture. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury. 184p. ISBN 9781472517197

Book Section

O'Brien, Sorcha (2016) Bouroullec, Ronan (1971–) and Erwan (1976–). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.) The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 184. 1 ISBN 9781472521545

O'Brien, Sorcha (2016) Dunne & Raby (Dunne, Anthony 1964–; Raby, Fiona 1963–). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.) The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 444-445. 1 ISBN 9781472521545

O'Brien, Sorcha (2016) Guixé, Martí (1964–). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.) The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 124. 2 ISBN 9781472521552

O'Brien, Sorcha (2016) Heatherwick, Thomas (1970–). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.) The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 139. 2 ISBN 9781472521552

O'Brien, Sorcha and Chesters, Robert (2016) Jongerius, Hella (1963-). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.) The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London. U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 262. 2 ISBN 9781472521552

O'Brien, Sorcha (2016) Rittel, Horst (1930–90). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.) The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 163-164. 3 ISBN 9781472521569

O'Brien, Sorcha (2011) Technology and modernity: the Shannon Scheme and visions of national progress. In: King, Linda and Sisson, Elaine, (eds.) Ireland, design and visual culture: negotiating modernity, 1922-1992. Cork, Ireland : Cork University Press. pp. 59-71. ISBN 9781859184721

O'Brien, Sorcha (2009) Images of Ardnacrusha: photography, electrical technology, and modernity in the Irish Free State. In: Flannery, Eoin and Griffin, Michael, (eds.) Ireland in Focus: film, photography, and popular culture. Syracuse, New York, U.S. : Syracuse University Press. pp. 71-85. (Irish Studies) ISBN 9780815632030

O'Brien, Sorcha (2009) Photographic connections: electrical technology in the making of Ireland in the 1920s. In: Glynne, Jonathan , Hackney, Fiona and Minton, Viv, (eds.) Networks of design: proceedings of the 2008 annual international conference of the Design History Society (UK): University College Falmouth 3-6 September. Boca Raton, Florida, U.S. : Universal Publishers. pp. 246-253. ISBN 9781599429069

Conference or Workshop Item

O'brien, Sorcha (2019) Electric Irish Homes textile art showcase. In: Bealtaine Festival; May 2019, National Museum of Ireland - Country Life, Castlebar, Co. Mayo. (Unpublished)

O'brien, Sorcha (2019) Kitchen promises: keeping the Country Girls at home with rural electrification. In: Dublin One City One Book; April 2019, Rathfarnham Castle, Co. Dublin. (Unpublished)

O'Brien, Sorcha [Speaker] (2018) Save As : the historian's view. In: Save As : creating and preserving Irish digital design; 22nd Aug 2018, Dublin, Ireland. (Unpublished)

O'Brien, Sorcha (2018) Electrical demonstrators and Irish countrywomen : official and voluntary promotion of Irish rural electrification. In: European Social Science History Conference 2018; 04 - 07 Apr 2018, Belfast, Northern Ireland. (Unpublished)

O'Brien, Sorcha (2018) Electric Irish homes : women and rural electrification in mid-century Ireland. In: Research Night; 24 May 2018, Dublin, Ireland. (Unpublished)

O'Brien, Sorcha (2018) Electric Irish homes : rural electrification, domestic products and Irish housewives in the 1950s and 1960s. In: TVAD Talks; 07 Feb 2018, Hatfield, UK. (Unpublished)

O'Brien, Sorcha (2017) Powering the nation : visions of the Shannon Scheme and electricity in Ireland. In: Dublin Festival of History 2017; 29 Sep - 14 Oct, Dublin, Ireland. (Unpublished)

O'Brien, Sorcha (2017) 'Made in Ireland'? : National narratives and transnational networks in Irish design history. In: Making and Unmaking the Environment : Design History Society Annual Conference; 07 - 09 Sep 2017, Oslo, Norway. (Unpublished)

O'Brien, Sorcha (2017) Electric Irish homes. In: Go for Life taster day; 01 Sep 2017, Termonfeckin, Ireland. (Unpublished)

O'Brien, Sorcha (2017) Brown bread and washing machines : nostalgia and perspective in Irish women’s experience of rural electrification. In: Oral Histories of Work & Leisure : Oral History Network of Ireland 2017 Conference; 23-24 Jun 2017, Galway, Republic of Ireland. (Unpublished)

O'Brien, Sorcha (2017) Housewives, electrical products and domesticity in 1950s and 1960s rural Ireland. In: MSt History of Design Dissertation Forum; 10 - 11 Jun 2017, Oxford, U.K.. (Unpublished)

O'brien, Sorcha (2017) Researching housewives, electrical products and domesticity in 1950s and 1960s rural Ireland. In: Domesticating Energy; 26 - 27 May 2017, Cambridge, U.K.. (Unpublished)

O'brien, Sorcha (2017) Electric Irish homes: researching housewives, electric products and domesticity in rural 1950s and 1960s Ireland. In: Kingston University Research Week; 3-7 April 2017, Knights Park campus, Kingston University. (Unpublished)

O'Brien, Sorcha (2017) Early Career Researcher grant funding presentation. In: it AHRC Peer Review College Early Career History Event; 08 Mar 2017, Leicester, U.K.. (Unpublished)

O'Brien, Sorcha (2017) Electric Irish homes : rural electrification, domestic products and Irish women in the 1950s and 1960s. In: Modern Interiors Research Centre Research Symposium 2017; 17-18 Jan 2017, Kingston upon Thames. (Unpublished)

O'Brien, Sorcha (2016) Visions of home : nostalgia and mobility in Serenity's domestic interior. In: Interiors : Film, Theater, Television; 18 Nov 2016, New York, U.S.. (Unpublished)

O'Brien, Sorcha (2016) 'Shining clean machines' : the promotion of vacuum cleaners in 1950s and 1960s Ireland. In: Mise Eire : shaping a nation through design; 04 - 05 Nov 2016, Dublin, Ireland. (Unpublished)

O'Brien, Sorcha (2016) "Look what Santa’s brought for you, mummy”: women, domesticity and the vacuum cleaner in 1950s and 1960s Ireland’. In: Irish Women and Rural Society: from Medieval to Modern; 11-12 Mar 2016, Belfast, U.K.. (Unpublished)

O'Brien, Sorcha (2015) The domestic spaceship: visions of future home-making in the production design of Serenity’s communal living spaces. In: Space Craft : Ladies and Gentlemen, we are floating in space; Nov 2015, Kingston upon Thames, U.K.. (Unpublished)

O'Brien, Sorcha (2015) The domestic spaceship : visions of future home-making in the production design of Serenity’s communal living spaces. In: "How We Live, and How We Might Live": Design and the Spirit of Critical Utopianism; 11-13 Sep 2015, San Francisco, U.S.. (Unpublished)

O'Brien, Sorcha (2015) The things I love the most. In: Galway International Arts Festival: First Thought Talks; 13-26 Jul 2015, Galway, Ireland. (Unpublished)

O'Brien, Sorcha (2015) "Look what Santa’s brought for you, Mummy" : women, domesticity and the vacuum cleaner in post-war Ireland. In: Historical geographies of home session on domestic space and practice in the past, 16th International Conference of Historical Geographers; 07 Jul 2015, London, U.K.. (Unpublished)

O'Brien, Sorcha [Organizer of meeting], Moran, Anna [Organizer of meeting], Hemmings, Jessica [Commentator], Carter, Frances [Speaker], Wilson, Ann [Speaker] and McGuire, Noreen [Speaker] (2014) Love Objects Studio Session. In: Love Objects Studio Session; 1 Oct 2014, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, U.K.. (Unpublished)

O'Brien, Sorcha (2014) Power games: British and German influences in Irish electrical power generation architecture. In: American Association for Irish Studies and the Canadian Association for Irish Studies Annual Conference; 11 - 14 Jun 2014, Dublin, Ireland. (Unpublished)

O'Brien, Sorcha (2014) Making meaning with ephemera: electrical technology and Irish national identity in the 1920s. In: 10th European Social Science History Conference; 23-26 Apr 2014, Vienna, Austria. (Unpublished)

O'Brien, Sorcha (2012) Men, machines and tourists: Visual representations of the Shannon Scheme from advertisements to postcards. In: Revealing the Modern in Post-Civil War Ireland: Lecture Series to Coincide with ‘Seán Keating and the ESB: Enlightenment and Legacy’ at the RHA Dublin; 12 Sep - 17 Oct 2012, Dublin, Ireland. (Unpublished)

O'Brien, Sorcha (2012) Between art & industry. In: Between Art and Industry: New Models in a Post Industrial World; 29 Jun 2012, Kilkenny, Ireland. (Unpublished)

Exhibition

O'brien, Sorcha [Curator] (2019) Kitchen power: women's experiences of rural electrification. Kitchen power: women's experiences of rural electrification. .

O'brien, Sorcha [Designer] (2017) Electric Irish Homes audio installation. Kingston Research Week exhibition. .

Database or Web Resource

O'Brien, Sorcha (2013) Behind the Interface: Space, Time and Infrastructure in Internet-Based Delivery for Design Education.