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2025

Kelly, Laura (2025) Positively Irish Action on AIDS (PIAA), HIV and AIDS activism and the Irish diaspora in London, c.1989-1996. Journal of the History of Sexuality, 34 (2). ISSN 1043-4070

Kelly, Laura (2025) The Women's Right to Choose Group and abortion rights activism in early 1980s Dublin. Health and History, 26 (2). pp. 51-72. ISSN 1839-3314

Rusterholz, Caroline and Kelly, Laura (2025) Depo-Provera, class, race and the domiciliary family planning services in Glasgow and Haringey, 1970-1983. The Historical Journal, 68 (1). pp. 216-238. ISSN 1469-5103

2024

Kelly, Laura (2024) The IFPA youth group, the Adolescent Confidential Telephone Service and sexual health activism in Ireland, c.1984-90. History Workshop Journal, 98. pp. 181-208. ISSN 1363-3554

2023

Kelly, Laura (2023) Contraception and Modern Ireland : A Social History, c.1922-92. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9781108979740

Kelly, Laura (2023) The Virgin condom : campaigning for access to contraceptives across the decades. The Irish Times, Dublin.

Kelly, Laura and Griffin, Niamh (2023) Celibacy was often the only option : women's battle to secure contraception in Ireland. The Irish Examiner, Cork.

2022

Kelly, Laura (2022) "Please help me, I am so miserable!" : sexual health, emotions and counselling in teen and young adult problem pages in late 1980s Ireland. Medical Humanities. medhum-2021-012350. ISSN 1473-4265

Kuźma-Markowska, Sylwia and Kelly, Laura (2022) Anti-abortion activism in Poland and the Republic of Ireland c.1970s-1990s. Journal of Religious History, 46 (3). pp. 526-551. ISSN 0022-4227

Kelly, Laura; Gavrus, Delia and Lamb, Susan, eds. (2022) Emotions and the Irish medical student, c.1840-1940. In: Transforming Medical Education. McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, pp. 389-413. ISBN 9780228010722

Kelly, Laura; Jones, Claire G. and Martin, Alison E. and Wolf, Alexis, eds. (2022) 'The question is one of extreme difficulty' : The admission of women to the British and Irish medical profession, C. 1850–1920. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Science since 1660. Palgrave Macmillan Cham, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 529-548. ISBN 9783030789725

2021

Kelly, Laura (2021) Debates on family planning and the contraceptive pill in the Irish magazine Woman's Way, 1963-1973. Women's History Review, 30 (6). pp. 971-989. ISSN 0961-2025

2020

Ignaciuk, Agata and Kelly, Laura (2020) Contraception and Catholicism in the twentieth century : transnational perspectives on medical, activist and intimate practices. Medical History, 64 (2). pp. 163-172. ISSN 0025-7273

Kelly, Laura (2020) The contraceptive pill in Ireland c.1964-79 : activism, women and patient-doctor relationships. Medical History, 64 (2). pp. 195-218. ISSN 0025-7273

2019

Kelly, Laura (2019) Irishwomen United, the Contraception Action Programme and the feminist campaign for free, safe and legal contraception in Ireland, c.1976-81. Irish Historical Studies, 43 (164). pp. 269-297.

2017

Kelly, Laura (2017) Elizabeth Garrett Anderson : early pioneer of women in medicine. The Lancet, 390 (10113). pp. 2620-2621. ISSN 0140-6736

Kelly, Laura; Grant, Susan, ed. (2017) 'She has broken down the barrier of bigotry and exclusiveness and forced her way into the profession' : Irish women in medicine, c.1880s-1920s. In: Russian and Soviet Healthcare from an International Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., Cham, pp. 143-164. ISBN 9783319441702

Kelly, Laura (2017) Irish medical education and student culture, c.1850-1950. Reappraisals in Irish History . Liverpool University Press, Liverpool. ISBN 9781786940599 (In Press)

2016

Kelly, Laura (2016) Irish medical student culture and the performance of masculinity, c.1880-1930. History of Education. ISSN 0046-760X

2015

Kelly, Laura (2015) Irish Women in Medicine, c.1880s–1920s : Origins, Education and Careers. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-9740-9

2013

Kelly, Laura; MacLellan, Anne and Mauger, Alice, eds. (2013) Rickets in Ireland : Dr Ella Webb and the early years of the Children's Sunshine Home, c.1924-1949. In: Growing Pains. Irish Academic Press, Dublin. ISBN 9780716531739

Kelly, Laura (2013) 'The turning point in the whole struggle' : the admission of women to the King and Queen’s College of Physicians in Ireland. Women's History Review, 22 (1). pp. 97-125. ISSN 0961-2025

2012

Kelly, Laura (2012) Migration and medical education : Irish medical students at the University of Glasgow, 1859-1900. Irish Economic and Social History, 39 (1). pp. 39-55. ISSN 2050-4918

Kelly, Laura (2012) Irish Women in Medicine, c.1880s–1920s : Origins, Education and Careers. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-8835-3

2011

Kelly, Laura (2011) Anatomy dissections and student experience at Irish universities, c.1900s–1960s. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 42 (4). pp. 467-474. ISSN 1369-8486

2010

Kelly, Laura (2010) "Fascinating scalpel-wielders and fair dissectors" : women’s experience of Irish medical education, c.1880s-1920s. Medical History, 54 (4). pp. 495-516. ISSN 0025-7273