Insular Christianity, 1500-1700
Researcher: Dr Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin
Collaborators: Dr Robert Armstrong (TCD), Professor Alan Ford (Nottingham) and Dr Crawford Gribben
The purpose of this project is to create a scholarly network which will deliver a comparative, interdisciplinary analysis of critical aspects of the process of religious change in Britain and Ireland, through the mechanism of the publication of a three volume series of essays, arising from three intensive workshop events in which participants will both present their own research and respond in a structured fashion to the work of designated colleagues. The first workshop/volume will be entitled "Religion and Dissent: The Catholic and Presbyterian experience in Early Modern Ireland and Britain", which will offer an new perspective on two confessions in urgent need of a wider comparative framework of analysis. The second workshop/volume, "Christianity in the Celtic World, 1500-1700" will place together a series of studies outlining the different trajectories of religious change in Wales, Gaelic Ireland and Gaelic Scotland. The third workshop/volume, timed to coincide with the quatercentenary of the first publication of the King James Bible, will offer a long overdue consideration of the most influential text in the English language in a pan-archipelagic context.In collaboration with Dr Robert Armstrong (TCD), Professor Alan Ford (Nottingham) and Dr Crawford Gribben, I have recently submitted a funding application to the IRCHSS.