UCD School of History & Archives

Scoil na Staire agus na Cartlannaíochta UCD

Dr Charles McGrath BA (Hons), MA, PhD

Contact Details

Title	Lecturer In Modern Irish History
Address	School of History & Archives

Title	Lecturer
Address	School of History & Archives Newman Building Belfield Dublin 4
Telephone:	Ext. 8442
Email:	ei.dcu@htargcm.ravi

Biography:

Charles Ivar McGrath is a lecturer in modern Irish history in the School of History and Archives, University College Dublin. He is the author of Ireland and Empire, 1692-1770 (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2012), The Making of the Eighteenth-Century Irish Constitution: Government, Parliament and the Revenue, 1692-1714 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000), articles in The English Historical Review, Irish Historical Studies, Parliamentary History, Eighteenth-Century Ireland and several edited collections and reference works, and co-editor of Converts and Conversion in Ireland, 1650-1850 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005), Money, Power and Print: Interdisciplinary Studies on the Financial Revolution in the British Isles (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008), and People, Politics and Power: Essays on Irish History 1660-1850 in Honour of James I. McGuire (Dublin: UCD Press, 2009). He received his BA (1989) and MA (1992) from UCD and his PhD (1997) from the University of London. Outside of academia, he spent three years serving as a private soldier in the Irish army including six months with UNIFIL in 1984-5, and eighteenth months in the civil service in London in 1992-3.

Research Interests

Early modern Ireland (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries); early modern Britain; the British empire; politics, parliament, legislation and government; religion; public finance, taxation, national debt and credit; early modern chartered trading companies and monopolies; the Hudson’s Bay Company.

Research Projects

Sponsor : Irish Research Council (IRC)
Title : Navigating the Penal Laws: The Catholic and Convert Interests in Connacht, 1701-1760
Start Date / End Date : 01-OCT-12 / 30-SEP-14

Sponsor : Irish Research Council (IRC)
Title : Jacobite women and the Williamite Confiscation: The role of women in petitioning for the reclamation of forfeited property in Ireland, 1691-1703
Start Date / End Date : 01-OCT-12 / 30-SEP-15

Sponsor : Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS)
Title : "A Sinew of Power"? State and Society in Eighteenth-Century Ireland, c.1680-1780
Start Date / End Date : 01-OCT-11 / 30-SEP-14

Sponsor : Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS)
Title : The Bubble on the Periphery: Ireland and the South Sea Bubble
Start Date / End Date : 01-OCT-08 / 30-SEP-10

Recent Postgraduates

Dr Emma Lyons: PhD - Awarded Sept. 2011
Dr Marie Leoutre: PhD - Awarded Sept. 2012
Suzanne Forbes: PhD - submitted August 2012

Current Postgraduate Students

Neil Johnston, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - Thesis Supervisor

Frances Nolan, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - Thesis Supervisor

Rachael Taaffe, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - Thesis Supervisor

Books

C. I. McGrath; (2012) Ireland and Empire, 1692-1770. London: Pickering and Chatto.

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McGrath, C. I.; (2000) The Making of the Eighteenth-Century Irish Constitution: Government, Parliament and the Revenue, 1692-1714. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details]

Book Chapters

McGrath, C. I.; (2012) ''Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Governance and the Viceroyalty'' In: Gray, Peter, and Purdue, Olwen (eds). The Irish Lord Lieutenancy, c. 1541-1922. Dublin: UCD Press. [Details]

McGrath, C. I.; (2011) ''The Public Wealth is the Sinew, the Life, of Every Public Measure: The Creation and Maintenance of a National Debt in Ireland, 1716-45'' In: Carey, D. and Finlay, C (eds). The Empire of Credit: The Financial Revolution in Britain, Ireland and America, 1688-1815. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. [Details]

McGrath, C. I.; (2010) ''Waging War: The Irish Military Establishment and the British Empire, 1688-1763'' In: Mulligan, William, and Simms, Brendan (eds). The Primacy of Foreign Policy in British History, 1660-2000: How Strategic concerns Shaped modern Britain. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details]

McGrath. C. I.; (2010) ''Money, Politics and Power: The Financial Legislation of the Irish Parliament'' In: Hayton, D. W., Kelly, James, & Bergin, John (eds). The Eighteenth-Century Composite State: Representative Institutions in Ireland and Europe, 1689-1800. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details]

McGrath, C. I.; (2009) ''The Parliament of Ireland to 1800'' In: Jones, Clyve (eds). A Short History of Parliament: England, Great Britain, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Scotland. Woodbridge: Boydell. [Details]

McGrath, C. I.; (2009) ''Alan Brodrick and the speakership of the Irish House of Commons, 1703-4'' In: Kelly, James, McCafferty, John, & McGrath, C. I (eds). People, Politics and Power: Essays on Irish History 1660-1850 in Honour of James I. McGuire. Dublin: UCD Press. [Details]
McGrath, C. I., Kelly, James, & McCafferty, John; (2009) ''Introduction'' In: Kelly, James, McCafferty, John, & McGrath, C. I (eds). People, Politics and Power: Essays on Irish History 1660-1850 in Honour of James I. McGuire. Dublin: UCD Press. [Details]
McGrath, C. I.; (2008) ''The Irish Experience of Financial Revolution, 1660-1760'' In: McGrath, C. I. & Fauske, C (eds). Money, Power and Print: Interdisciplinary Studies on the Financial Revolution in the British Isles. Newark: University of Delaware Press. [Details]
McGrath, C. I. & Fauske, C.; (2008) ''Money, Power, and Print: Interdisciplinary Studies on the Financial Revolution in the British Isles'' In: McGrath, C. I. & Fauske, C (eds). Money, Power, and Print: Interdisciplinary Studies on the Financial Revolution in the British Isles. Newark: University of Delaware Press. [Details]
McGrath, C. I.; (2005) ''The provisions for conversion in the penal laws, 1695-1750'' In: McGrath, C. I., Brown, M. & Power, T. P (eds). Converts and Conversion in Ireland, 1650-1850. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details]
McGrath, C. I., Brown, M. & Power, T. P.; (2005) ''Converts and conversion in Ireland, 1650-1850'' In: McGrath, C. I., Brown, M. & Power, T. P (eds). Converts and Conversion in Ireland, 1650-1850. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details]
McGrath, C. I.; (1998) ''Securing the Protestant Interest: Policy, Politics and Parliament in Ireland in the Aftermath of the Glorious Revolution 1690-95'' In: Thomas Bartlett (eds). History and Environment. Dublin: UCD. [Details]
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Edited Books

Kelly, James, McCafferty, John, & McGrath, C. I (Ed.). (2009) People, Politics and Power: Essays on Irish History 1660-1850 in Honour of James I. McGuire. Dublin: UCD Press. [Details]

McGrath, C. I., and Fauske, C (Ed.). (2008) Money, Power and Print: Interdisciplinary Studies on the Financial Revolution in the British Isles. Newark: University of Delaware Press. [Details]

McGrath, C. I., Brown, M., and Power, T. P (Ed.). (2005) Converts and Conversion in Ireland, 1650-1850. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details]

Peer Reviewed Journals

McGrath, C. I.; (2008) 'The 'Union' Representation of 1703 in the Irish House of Commons: A case of mistaken identity?'. Eighteenth Century Ireland, 23 :11-35. [Details]

McGrath, C. I.; (2006) ''Government, parliament and the constitution: the reinterpretation of Poynings' Law, 1692-1714''. Irish Historical Studies, xxxv :160-172. [Details]

McGrath, C. I.; (2004) ''English Ministers, Irish Politicians and the Making of a Parliamentary Settlement in Ireland, 1692-5''. English Historical Review, cxix :585-613. [Details]

McGrath, C. I.; (2002) ''Parliament, People, and other Possibilities''. Eighteenth Century Ireland, 17 :157-166. [Details]

McGrath, C. I.; (2001) ''Parliamentary Additional Supply: The Development and Use of Regular Short-term Taxation in the Irish Parliament, 1692-1716''. Parliamentary History, xx :27-54. [Details]

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Dictionary Entry

McGrath, C. I.; (2009) Entries on: Annesley, Francis (1663-1750); Brewster, Sir Francis (d. 1704); Brodrick, Thomas (1654-1730); Capel, Sir Henry, Lord Capel of Tewkesbury (1638-96); Coningsby, Thomas, Earl of Coningsby (1656-1729); Culliford, William (d. 1724); Erle, Thomas (c. 1650-1720); Keightley, Thomas (1650-1719); Maxwell, Henry (c.1669-1730); Methuen, John (1649-1706); Ponsonby, Brabazon (1679-1758); Savage, Philip (1644-1717); Sidney, Henry (1641-1704); Southwell, Sir Thomas, Baron Southwell of Castle Mattress (1665-1720); Tollet, George (d. c. 1721-2). Cambridge: Dictionary Entry [Details]

McGrath, I.; (2004) Entries on: Brewster, Sir Francis (d. 1704); Copley, Sir Godfrey (1653-1709); Evelyn, John, the younger (1655-99); Jones, Richard, Earl of Ranelagh (1641-1712); Keightley, Thomas (1650-1719); Maxwell, Henry (c. 1669-1730); Mitchelburne, John (1647-1721); Philips, George (d. 1696); Porter, Sir Charles (1631-96); Robartes, Francis (1650-1718); Rochfort, Robert (1652-1727); Shaen, Sir James (d. 1695); Wyche, Sir Cyril (1632-1707). Oxford: Dictionary Entry [Details]

McGrath, C. I.; (2002) Entries on: Methuen, John; Methuen, Paul; Twisden, Sir William; and co-author of 19 constituencies and 114 biographies. Cambridge: Dictionary Entry [Details]

Encyclopedia Entry

McGrath, C. I.; (2006) 'Ireland, English colonization'. Farmington Hills: Encyclopedia Entry [Details]

McGrath, C. I.; (2003) Entries on: Boyle, Henry (1684-1764), p. 115; Boyne, Battle of (1690), pp 116-17; Conolly, William (1662-1729), p. 232; Derry, Siege of (1689), p. 287; Dromore, Break of (1689), pp 314-15; Fitzjames, James, Duke of Berwick (1670-1734), p. 396; Lucas, Charles (1713-71), p. 652; Lundy, Robert (d. c. 1717), p. 654; MacMahon, Heber (1600-50), pp 677-8; Newtown Butler, Battle of (1689), p. 780; Schomberg, Friedrich Herman, Duke (1615-90), pp 965-6; Talbot, Richard, Earl of Tyrconnell (1630-91), pp 1032-3; Tories, p. 1055; Undertakers, p. 1095; Walker, Rev. George (1646-90), p. 1117; William III (1650-1702), pp 1140-1; Williamite Settlement, p. 1141. Dublin: Encyclopedia Entry [Details]

Electronic Publication

McGrath, C. I.; (2011) 'Ireland and the State Papers, 1603-1714'. Andover: Electronic Publication [Details]

Book Reviews

McGrath. C. I.; (2012) James Kelly and Martyn Powell (eds), Clubs and Societies in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (Dublin, 2012. English Historical Review, cxxvii: Book Reviews [Details]

McGrath, C. I.; (2011) James Kelly (ed.), Proceedings of the Irish House of Lords, 1771-1800 (3 vols, Dublin, 2008). English Historical Review, cxxvi: Book Reviews [Details]

McGrath, C. I.; (2007) Eileen O'Byrne (ed.), The Convert Rolls: the Calendar of the Convert Rolls, 1703-18380 . With Fr Wallace Clare's annotated list of Converts, 1703-780 (Dublin, 2005). Irish Historical Studies, xxxv (2007): Book Reviews [Details]

McGrath, C. I.; (2007) Glenn Hooper, Travel Writing and Ireland, 1760-1860: Culture, History, Politics (Houndmills, 2005). www.sehepunkte.de/: Book Reviews

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McGrath. C. I.; (2006) Rowena Dudley, The Irish Lottery 1780-1801 (Dublin, 2005). Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 21 (2006), pp 160-1: Book Reviews [Details]

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Honours and Awards

Year: 1996.
Title: Isobel Thornley Research Fellow

Year: 1993.
Title: British Academy PhD Scholarship

Year: 1990.
Title: Lord Edward Fitzgerald Memorial Fund Bursary

Year: 1988.
Title: Nobel Peace Prize (United Nations Peacekeeping Forces) Medal

Year: 1985.
Title: United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon Service Medal

Associations

Association: Money, Power and Print, Function/Role: I am a founder-member (with Prof. Rick Kleer, Dept. of Economics, University of Regina, and Dr Christopher Fauske, Salem State College, Mass.) of this body for the study of the Financial Revolution

Association: Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society, Function/Role: Committee member

Association: Irish Historical Society, Function/Role: committee member, 2004-current; secretary, 2004-7; Treasurer, 2011-current

Association: Royal Irish Academy Committee for Historical Sciences, Function/Role: committee member

Association: Irish Historical Studies Publications Limited, Function/Role: Company member, 2005-current

Conference Contributions

McGrath, C. I.; (2012) Kingdom or Colony?: Legislative Autonomy, appellate jurisdiction, and the constitutional relationship between Ireland and England in the early modern period. [Invited Lecture], School of History and Archives Research Forum, UCD , 23-OCT-12 - 23-OCT-12.

McGrath, C. I.; (2012) Irish Catholic recruitment into the British Regular Army, 1692-1770. [Invited Lecture], Catholic Loyalty Symposium, Long Room Hub, TCD , 28-SEP-12 - 29-SEP-12.

McGrath, C. I.; (2012) Professionalising Government: The Irish Revenue Collection Service, 1660-1702. [Invited Lecture], Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference, UCD , 31-AUG-12 - 01-SEP-12.

McGrath, C. I.; (2012) Money, Power and Print: The Financial Revolution, 1688-1776. [Conference Organising Committee Member], Money, Power and Print Colloquium, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada , 13-JUN-12 - 16-JUN-12.

McGrath, C. I.; Bew, John (King¿s College London) (2010) Irish History and the Primacy of Foreign Policy. [Invited Lecture], School of History and Archives Research Forum, UCD , 23-NOV-10 - 23-NOV-10.

McGrath, C. I.; (2010) Culture, Society and Change: the permanent residential army barracks of eighteenth-century Ireland. [Invited Lecture], Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute Seminar, UCD , 12-NOV-10 - 12-NOV-10.
McGrath, C. I.; (2010) Money, Power and Print: The financial Revolution, 1688-1776. [Conference Organising Committee Member], Money, Power and Print Colloquium, University of Aberdeen , 16-JUN-10 - 19-JUN-10.
McGrath, C. I.; (2010) Wood's Halfpence and Swift: when history and hagiography collide. [Invited Lecture], Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society Conference, University of Limerick , 11-JUN-10 - 12-JUN-10.
McGrath, C. I.; (2010) The Battle of the Boyne, 1690: An Irish Solution to a European problem?. [Invited Lecture], Maurice Kennedy Research Centre, UCD , 19-APR-10 - 19-APR-10.
McGrath, C. I.; (2010) The Advent of Regular Parliaments in Ireland in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries: Cause and Effect. [Invited Lecture], Centre for Historical Research Seminar, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick , 15-APR-10 - 15-APR-10.
McGrath, C. I.; (2010) The Dictionary of Irish Biography as a resource for research in early modern Irish history. [Invited Lecture], Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute Seminar, UCD , 22-JAN-10 - 22-JAN-10.
McGrath, C. I.; (2009) Late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century governance and the viceroyalty. [Invited Lecture], Royal Irish Academy Committee for History conference: The Irish Lord Lieutenancy, c. 1541-1922, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin , 10-SEP-09 - 11-SEP-09.
McGrath, C. I.; (2009) Catholics and the army in Ireland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. [Non Refereed Paper/Abstract Presented at Conference], Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society Annual conference: The Penal Laws, UCD , 04-SEP-09 - 05-SEP-09.
McGrath, C. I.; (2009) The Penal Laws. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society Annual Conference, UCD , 04-SEP-09 - 05-SEP-09.
McGrath, C. I.; (2008) Colloquium: Money, Power and Print. [Conference Organising Committee Member], Colloquium: Money, Power and Print, St Johns, Newfoundland, Canada , 26-JUL-08 - 28-JUL-08.
McGrath, C. I.; (2007) Ireland and Empire, 1692-1770. [Invited Lecture], History Society, UCD, UCD , 05-NOV-07.
McGrath, C. I.; (2007) Irish National Debt Legislation in the Eighteenth Century. [Invited Lecture], Colloquium on Eighteenth-Century Legislation, Queen¿s University Belfast , 14-SEP-07 - 15-SEP-07.
McGrath, C. I.; (2007) Parnell Summer School. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Parnell Summer School, Avondale, Co. Wicklow , 12-AUG-07 - 17-AUG-07.
McGrath, C. I.; (2007) A case of mistaken identity? The 'Union' Address of 1703 in the Irish House of Commons. [Invited Lecture], Canadian Association for Irish Studies, St John¿s, Newfoundland , 20-JUN-07.
McGrath, C. I.; (2007) The 'Union' Representation of 1703 in the Irish House of Commons: A case of mistaken identity?. [Invited Lecture], Tercentenary Symposium on the Anglo-Scottish Union, 1707, University of Aberdeen , 02-MAY-07.
McGrath, C. I.; (2007) Workshop for Secondary School History Teachers. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Royal Irish Academy Workshop: Secondary School History Teachers, Trinity College Dublin , 24-MAR-07.
McGrath, C. I.; (2007) TCD / UCD: Joint Postgraduate Conference. [Conference Organising Committee Member], TCD / UCD: Joint Postgraduate Conference, UCD / TCD , 07-APR-07.
McGrath, C. I.; (2006) Ireland and the expansion of the British empire in the Atlantic world, 1692-1770: public finance and the army. [Invited Lecture], Atlantic History Workshop, New York University , 10-OCT-06.
McGrath, C. I.; (2006) Colloquium: Money, Power and Prose. [Conference Organising Committee Member], Colloquium: Money, Power and Prose, Armagh, Ireland , 08-JUN-06 - 10-JUN-06.
McGrath, C. I.; (2006) Joint Postgraduate Conference TCD/UCD. [Conference Organising Committee Member], Joint Postgraduate Conference, TCD / UCD , 08-APR-06.
McGrath, C. I.; (2006) Workshop for Secondary School History Teachers. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Royal Irish Academy Worskshop: Secondary School History Teachers, TCD , 01-APR-06.
McGrath, C. I.; (2005) Money and Men: Ireland's Role in the Emergence of the First British Empire, 1688-1763. [Invited Lecture], Research Seminar in Irish and British History, TCD , 11-NOV-05.
McGrath, C. I.; (2005) Money and Men: Ireland's Role in the Emergence of the First British Empire, 1688-1763. [Invited Lecture], Anglo-American Conference, Institute of Historical Research, Institute of Historical Research , 06-JUL-05.
McGrath, C. I.; (2005) University College Dublin: Media History Symposium. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], University College Dublin: Media History Symposium, UCD , 03-MAY-05.
McGrath, C. I.; (2004) Memory, myth and fact: some challenges for interdisciplinary studies. [Invited Lecture], American Studies Program Inaugural lecture, Salem State College, Mass , 23-OCT-04.
McGrath, C. I.; (2004) The Irish Experience of Financial Revolution, 1716-54. [Invited Lecture], Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society and Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society Conference, Trinity College Dublin , 17-JUN-04.
McGrath, C. I.; (2004) National Debt, Public Credit, and Community Identity: The Irish Experience of 'Financial Revolution', 1716-54. [Invited Lecture], 'Money, Power, and Prose' Colloquium, University of Regina, Canada , 11-JUN-04.
McGrath, C. I.; (2004) Jonathan Swift in an Irish historical context. [Invited Lecture], University of Bologna, Forlì, Italy, University of Bologna, Forlì, Italy , 12-MAR-04.
McGrath, C. I.; (2003) Adventures and Misadventures in Poynings Law: Early Modern Reinterpretations and Modern Historiographical Misconstructions. [Invited Lecture], British and Irish Legal History Conference, UCD , 14-JUL-03.
McGrath, C. I.; (2003) Parliament and Conversion in the Penal Era. [Invited Lecture], Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society Conference, Trinity College Dublin , 18-MAY-03.
McGrath, C. I.; (2003) 'The Public Wealth is the Sinew, the Life, of every Public Measure': The Creation and Maintenance of a National Debt in Ireland, 1715-45. [Invited Lecture], Institute of Historical Research, University of London, Institute of Historical Research, University of London , 05-MAR-03.
McGrath, C. I.; (2003) Parliament and Conversion in the Penal Era. [Invited Lecture], History Society, UCD, UCD , 21-JAN-03.
McGrath, C. I.; (2002) An Eighteenth-Century Constitutional Framework? Government, Parliament and the Revenue, 1715-1782. [Invited Lecture], Research Seminar in Irish and British History, TCD , 08-OCT-02.
Ivar McGrath; (2002) The Public Wealth is the Sinew, the Life, of every Public Measure: The Creation and Maintenance of a National Debt in Ireland, 1715-45. [Invited Lecture], Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society Conference, Queen's University Belfast , 18-MAY-02.
McGrath, C. I.; (2002) Law, Politics and Power in Ireland, 1692-1782. [Invited Lecture], History Society, TCD, TCD , 21-JAN-02.
McGrath, C. I.; (2001) Central Aspects of the Eighteenth-Century Constitutional Framework in Ireland: The Government Supply Bill and Biennial Parliamentary Sessions, 1715-82. [Invited Lecture], Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society Conference, NUI Maynooth , 19-MAY-01.
McGrath, C. I.; (1999) Purse-String Powerbrokers: Short-term Additional Supply and the Advent of Regular Parliaments in Ireland, 1692-1716. [Invited Lecture], Institute of Irish Studies, QUB, Queen's University Belfast , 15-FEB-99.
McGrath, C. I.; (1999) Negotiating a Compromise: The Politics of the 'Sole Right' in Ireland, 1693-5. [Invited Lecture], Irish Historical Society, UCD , 08-JAN-99.
McGrath, C. I.; (1997) The Irish Parliament and the Revenue in the Reign of William III. [Invited Lecture], Institute of Historical Research, University of London, Institute of Historical Research, University of London , 21-FEB-97.
McGrath, C. I.; (1996) English Government and the Irish Revenue, 1689-1702. [Invited Lecture], Institute of Historical Research, University of London, Institute of Historical Research, University of London , 06-MAR-96.
McGrath, C. I.; (1995) The Establishment of a Williamite Revenue System 1689-91. [Invited Lecture], McKisack Research Seminar, Queen Mary, University of London , 06-JAN-95.
McGrath, C. I.; (1991) Finance: The Necessities of Government, 1690-5. [Invited Lecture], Postgraduate Forum, UCD, UCD , 15-FEB-91.
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Committees

Committee : Eighteenth Century Ireland Society

Committee : Irish Historical Society

Committee : Royal Irish Academy Committee for Historical Sciences

Employment

Employer: School of Histories and Humanities, Trinity College Dublin
Position: Extramural and Outreach Coordinator

Employer: University College Dublin
Position: Lecturer

Employer: Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Position: Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Employer: National University of Ireland
Position: Research Fellow

Employer: Inst. of Irish Studies, Queen's University Belfast
Position: Junior Research Fellow

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Education

Year 1997 Institution: University of London
Qualification: PhD Subject:

Year 1992 Institution: University College Dublin
Qualification: MA Subject:

Year 1989 Institution: University College Dublin
Qualification: BA Subject:

Outreach Activities

I spent two years from 2005 to 2007 as the extramural and outreach coordinator in the School of Histories and Humanities at Trinity College Dublin. This work included organising, coordinating and directing extramural courses in history, history of art, classics and gender and women¿s studies; developing new courses; adn increasing contact with secondary schools through Open Day and workshops. I also taught on the Trinity Access Programme, and undertook visits to universities in North America and developed a Semester Start-Up Programme for International Students.

Other Activities

2012: Newstalk Radio, Talking History show: Roundtable on the Salem witch trials, 1692

2010: Contributor to UCD Communications Promotional Video: http://ucdlife.ucd.ie/178/history-at-ucd

2009: Contributor to BBC Radio 4 programme, 28 December 2009: Michael Portillo¿s ¿What we Forgot to Remember¿ on the subject of the Glorious Revolution of 1688

Radio panelist on NewsTalk Radio, Talking History Show on the Penal Laws (Aug. 2008) and the Act of Union (Nov. 2008)

Radio interview on the Battle of the Boyne on RTE 1: Marian Finucane Show, May 2007

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External Collaborators

Prof. Rick Kleer, Dept. of Economics, University of Regina, and Dr Christopher Fauske, Salem State College, Mass. We co-founded Money, Power and Print: Interdisciplinary Studies on the Financial Revolution in the British Isles, 1688-1776. Our first colloquium was held in Regina, Canada, in 2004, with delegates from America, Britain, Canada, Ireland, and Germany. The second colloquium took place in June 2006 in Northern Ireland, with delegates from America, Britain, Canada, and Ireland. The third colloquium took place in June 2008 in Newfoundland, Canada, and the fourth in 2010 in Aberdeen, Scotland. The fifth is taking place in June 2012 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (See: www.moneypowerandprint.org/).

Modules Coordinated

201200 HIS30680 History: Ireland & Glorious Revolution

201200 HIS41820 History: Representative assemblies

201200 IRST10010 Irish Studies: Intro to Irish Studies

201200 IRST30150 Irish Studies: Ireland Uncovered

201200 IRST30130 Irish Studies: Ir Studies Readings Seminar 1

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McGrath. C. I.; (2005) Muriel McCarthy and Ann Simmons (eds), The Making of Marsh's Library. Learning, politics and religion in Ireland, 1650-1750 (Dublin, 2004). Irish Economic and Social History, xxxii (2005), pp 189-91: Book Reviews [Details]
McGrath. C. I.; (2004) Toby Barnard, Irish Protestant Ascents and Descents 1641-1770 (Dublin, 2004). Irish Historical Studies, xxxiv (2004): Book Reviews [Details]
McGrath, C. I.; (2004) D. W. Hayton, Ruling Ireland, 1685-1742: Politics, Politicians and Parties (Woodbridge, 2004). ASECS Book Reviews Online (ABRO): Book Reviews [Details]
McGrath, C. I.; (2004) Martin Marix Evans and David Lyons, A Terrible Beauty: An Illustrated History of Irish Battles (Dublin, 2003). Irish Historical Studies, xxxiv (2004), pp 97-8: Book Reviews [Details]
McGrath, C. I.; (2003) Martyn J. Powell, Britain and Ireland in the Eighteenth-Century Crisis of Empire (Houndmills, 2003). Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 18 (2003), pp 170-2: Book Reviews [Details]
McGrath, C. I.; (2002) Harold O'Sullivan, John Bellew, a Seventeenth-Century man of many parts 1605-1679 (Dublin, 2000); and Karen Harvey, The Bellews of Mount Bellew: A Catholic Gentry Family in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (Dublin, 1998). Irish Historical Studies, xxxiii (2002), pp 251-3: Book Reviews [Details]
McGrath, C. I.; (2001) James Kelly, Gallows Speeches from Eighteenth-Century Ireland (Dublin, 2001). Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 16 (2001), pp 161-2: Book Reviews [Details]
McGrath, C. I.; (1999) T. O. McLoughlin, Contesting Ireland: Irish Voices against England in the Eighteenth Century (Dublin, 1999). Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 14 (1999), pp 153-5: Book Reviews [Details]
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Employer: History of Parliament Trust, London Position: Research Officer
Employer: Royal Irish Academy Position: Research Assistant
Employer: University College Dublin Position: Tutor
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Radio interview on the Battle of the Boyne on NewsTalk, Talking History Show, July 2007
Radio interview on the Parnell Summer School on Newstalk, August 2007
Academic Director, Parnell Summer School 2007
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