Sonja Tiernan is an Irish–New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Otago, specialising in modern Irish history and gender politics.
[1] She completed a PhD titled The literary life of Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926) at the University College Dublin.
[3] Tiernan is Co-Director, with Professor Liam McIlvanney, of the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies.
She has published several books on Irish women, including a biography of writer and activist Eva Gore-Booth, a history of marriage equality in Ireland, and two volumes of Irish women's speeches.
Her study included what is probably the first translation of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic into te reo Maori.