Dr Declan Downey BA, MA, PhD
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Biography:
| PhD Cambridge (1994) College Lecturer in Modern European and Asian History in the School of History & Archives, University College Dublin Co-Director
of the BCL Degree in Law with History Programme since September, 2010 Co-director
and co-editor with Dr. Ciaran Brady (Trinity College, Dublin.), of the ¿Wild
Geese Regiments Database Project ¿ Irish officers and soldiers in the Spanish
and Austrian Services c.1560-1810,
This is a joint T.C.D.-U.C.D. research project funded by the Higher Education
Authority. Co-Director of the Irish in Spain and the Iberian Trans-Atlantic World International Research Project Member
of the Executive Committee of the Council for Spanish-Irish Historical Studies,
since March 2011 Member
of the Scientific Committee of the Spanish University Review ¿Revista
Espacio, Tiempo y Forma: Historia Moderna, since 2011 Member of the Board of Trustees of the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Castle, April 2012 Director of Ireland¿s EU Presidency Cultural Project Conference: Eminent Europeans of Irish Origin. The Impact of Ireland in Europe: An Historical Perspective, Royal Irish Academy, 21 & 22 February 2013
Since September 1995, Dr. Downey has held administrative roles such as Director of Examinations, Coordinator, Rapporteur and Editor of the Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement Assessment and Report on the UCD Combined Departments of History in 2002-¿3, Director of Tutorials, Director of International Exchanges in History, Director of Postgraduate Studies in Early Modern History and currently he is Co-Director of the BCL Degree Programme in Law & History.
Advisor to the Asian Strategy Committee, Dept. of An Taoiseach, (Prime Minister), Dublin, 2000-2004 Member
of the Irish Business & Employers Confederation (I.B.E.C. ) Asia Forum for
the maximisation of business, educational and cultural links with Asia, 2000-2004 OTHER INTERESTS Riding, Fencing, Falconry, Walking, Genealogy & Heraldry, Architecture, Cuisine, Wine, Gardens, Current Affairs, Charitable Works of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta. |
Research Interests
| History
of Diplomacy & International Law; Contemporary
European Union - Asian relations; Japanese-Western
Relations, 1559-Present; Habsburg
Austria & Spain, The Netherlands and Germany 1500-1870 ; Irish
émigré elites in Spain, Austria, The Low Countries and Germany and c.1560-1860;
Co-Director
of the Irish in Spain and the Iberian Trans-Atlantic World International
Research Project |
Books
| Declan Downey; (1996) The Crisis in Christianity, 1450-1600. Dublin: National Distance Education Council. [Details] |
Book Chapters
| Declan M. Downey; (2009) 'Between Scylla and Charybdis:The Knights of Glin and their Habsburg and Stuart Associations, 1600-1700' In: Tom Donovan (eds). The Knights of Glin. Seven Centuries of Change. Glin, County Limerick: Glin Historical Association. [Details] |
| Declan M. Downey; (2009) 'Archbishop Matteo de Oviedo of Dublin' In: James I. McGuire (eds). Dictionary of Irish Biography. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. [Details] |
| Declan M. Downey; (2010) 'Whether Habsburgs or Bourbons: Some Reflections on the alignments of Nobles of Irish Origin in the War of the Spanish Succession, 1713-1723' In: García Hernán, Enrique & Pérez Tostado, Igor (eds). Irlanda y el Atlántico Ibérico, Movilidad, participacion e intercambio cultural (1580-1823). Valencia: Albatros. [Details] |
| Declan M. Downey (2012) 'Seigneurialism and Strategy. The political gravitation of the earls of Desmond and Irish nobles towards the early Habsburg monarchy, 1528-1604' In: O. Recio Morales & E García Hernán (eds). Redes de nación y espacios de poder: la comunidad irlandesa en España y la América española, 1600-1825. Valencia: Albatros Ediciones. [Details] |
| Declan M. Downey; (2008) '‘A Salamancan who evaded the Inquisition : Florence Conry, pro-Habsburg archbishop, theologian & diplomat’' In: Spanish-Irish Relations through the ages. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details] |
| Declan M. Downey; (2007) '‘Catholicism, Milesianism and Monarchism: The facilitators of Irish Identification with Habsburg Spain’' In: Extranjeros en el Ejército. Militares irlandeses en la sociedad Española, 1580-1818, (Eds.), E García Hernán & Ó. Recio Morales. Madrid: Ministerio de Defensa. [Details] | |||||||||
| Downey, D.; (2006) 'Purity of Blood and Purity of Faith in early modern Ireland'' In: Ford, A. & McCafferty, J (eds). The Origins of Sectarianism in Early Modern Ireland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Details] | |||||||||
| Downey, D.; (2006) ''A Castilian-Regalist Cradling: Spanish-Habsburg formation of the early Irish Counter Reformation'' In: H.B. Clarke and J.R.S. Phillips (eds). A Turbulent Priest Essays in Memory of Professor F.X. Martin, OSA. Dublin: University College Dublin Press. [Details] | |||||||||
| Downey, D.; (2004) 'Entry for 'Archbishop Florence Conry of Tuam'' In: Dictionary of Irish Philosophers. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Details] | |||||||||
| Downey, D.; (2003) 'Die Wildgänse und der Doppeladler. Irische Integration in Österreich von 1630 bis 1918' In: Die Wildgänse. Irische Soldaten im Dienste der Habsburger. Vienna: Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Verlag, Wien. [Details] | |||||||||
| Howard Clarke & Judith Devlin; (2003) 'Irish-European integration : The legacy of Emperor Charles V' In: Ireland & Europe. Essays in Memory of Albert Lovett. Dublin: University College Dublin Press. [Details] | |||||||||
| Declan Downey; (2002) 'Augustinians and Scotists: The Irish contribution to Counter Reformation theology in continental Europe' In: (Eds.) Brendan Bradshaw & Dáire Keogh.(Columba Press, Dublin) (eds). Christianity in Ireland. Revisiting the Story. Dublin: Columba Press. [Details] | |||||||||
| Downey, D.; (2002) '' Wild Geese and the Double-Headed Eagle: Irish Integration in Austria c.1630-c.1918 '' In: Paul Leifer & Eda Sagarra (eds). Austro-Irish Links Through the Centuries. Vienna: Diplomatic Academy, Vienna, Favorita Papers, Special Edition. [Details] | |||||||||
| Declan Downey; (2001) 'Agostiniani e Scotisti; il contributo irlandese alla teologia della Controriforma nellEuropa continentale (' Augustinians and Scotists : The Irish contribution to Counter Reformation theology in continental Europe ' )' In: (Eds.) Donal Kerr,Luigi Vaccaro, & Carlo M. Pellizzi, ( lEditrice ITL-Centro Ambrosiano, Milan) (eds). Storia Religiosa dell' Irlanda, XXI settimana europea, 7-11 settembre 1999. Varese: Editzione Paolo Sesto, Villa Cagnola, Milan. [Details] | |||||||||
| Declan Downey; (2001) ''Some Observations on the parallels concerning Ireland and India's respective experiences of Imperial Withdrawal '' In: (Eds.) Elisabeth Vyslonzil, Klaus Koch & Emil Brix, (Österreiches Ost-und Südosteuropa Institut, Verlag, für Geschichte und Politik, Wien & Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, München) (eds). The Decline of Empires. Vienna: Ost und Sud-Ost Europaische Institut, Wien. [Details] | |||||||||
| Declan Downey; (1999) ''La Paz de Westfalia, vista desde Irlanda' ('An Irish Perspective on the Westphalian Peace')' In: (Eds.) Bernardo Garcia Garcia & Fernando Villaverde. (Biblioteca Nacional, Fundacion Carlos de Amberes & Konrad Adenauer Stift, Madrid) (eds). 350 Anos de la Paz de Westfalia, 1648-1998. Del Antagonismo a la Integracion en Europa. Madrid: Fundacion Carlos de Amberes. [Details] | |||||||||
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Edited Books
| D.M. Downey & J.Crespo MacLennan (Ed.). (2008) Spanish-Irish Relations Through the Ages. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details] |
Conference Publications
| Declan M. Downey (2011) Accommodations with the Protestant State & Church: A comparative study of respective Dutch & Irish Catholic Experiences¿ . In: J. Bergin, E. Magennis, L. Ní Mhunghaile & P. A. Walsh eds. Eighteenth Century Ireland Special Edition on The Penal Laws [Details] |
Field Guide
| Declan M. Downey & Pedro O¿Neill Teixeira (2008) A Lisbon Tour of Irish Interest. Uma visita a Lisboa de Interesse Irlandês, Foreword by HE Ambassador James Brennan. Field Guide [Details] |
Guest Lectures
| Declan Downey; (1998) 'Una Perspectiva irlandesa sobre la Paz de Westfalia. Guest Lectures [Details] |
| Declan Downey; (1999) 'Der irischen Adel im habsburgischen Dienst'. Guest Lectures [Details] |
| Declan Downey; (2000) Chinoiserie and the Western Fascination with China. Guest Lectures [Details] |
| Declan Downey; (2001) Assimilation and Advancement of Irish émigrés in Spanish Society since 1602. Guest Lectures [Details] |
| Declan Downey; (2001) The Irish in the Habsburg Monarquía : Spain and The Netherlands. Guest Lectures [Details] |
| Declan Downey; (2001) An overview of Irish émigrés on the Continent since 1590 . Guest Lectures [Details] | |||||||||
| Declan Downey; (2001) Origins of the Spanish-Irish Alliance : political, diplomatic and cultural considerations. Guest Lectures [Details] | |||||||||
| Declan Downey; (2001) A review of Irish integration in Habsburg Europe. Guest Lectures [Details] | |||||||||
| Declan Downey; (2001) Irish field marshalls, diplomats, spymasters and ministers in the Austrian Habsburg Hausmacht. Guest Lectures [Details] | |||||||||
| Declan Downey; (2002) Irish knights of the Golden Fleece in Austria and Spain. Guest Lectures [Details] | |||||||||
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Electronic Publication
| Downey, D.; (2012) Website Database for Research on Irish Émigrés in Europe c. 1600-1900. Electronic Publication [Details] |
Seminar
| Declan Downey; (1998) The first Reich as a precursor to the European Union. Seminar [Details] |
| Declan Downey; (1998) Felipe II y el ofrecimiento de soberanía irlandesa. Seminar [Details] |
| Declan Downey; (1998) Purity of Blood and Purity of Faith. A Continental Catholic Mentality among the Early Modern Irish'. Seminar [Details] |
CD-ROM
| Downey, D.; (2002) La Batalla de Kinsale. Madrid: CD-ROM [Details] |
| (Eds.) Ciaran Brady, David Dickson, Declan M. Downey, Enrique García Hernán & Oscar Recio Morales, ; (2007) \i La Presencia irlandesa en los ejércitos de la Monarquía hispánica, 1580-1818,0. Madrid: CD-ROM [Details] |
Foreword
| Declan M. Downey (2009) Foreward to E García Hernán, Ireland and Spain in the Reign of Philip II, (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2009). Foreword [Details] |
Invited Review Articles
| Declan M. Downey (1999) Review of Alison Forrestal, Catholic Synods in Ireland, 1600-1690, (Four Courts Press, Dublin, Pp.224), in Irish Historical Studies, Vol. XXXI, No.124, (November, 1999), pp. 566-568. Invited Review Articles [Details] |
| Declan M. Downey (1999) Review of Patricia O¿Connell, The Irish College of Alcalá de Henares, 1649-1785, (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 1997, Pp.128), in Irish Historical Studies, Vol. XXXI, No.124, (November, 1999), pp.568-569. Invited Review Articles [Details] |
| Declan M. Downey (2005) Review of Vincent Carey, Surviving the Tudors. The ¿Wizard¿ Earl of Kildare and English Rule in Ireland, 1537-1586,Pp. 240, (Four Courts Press, 2002), in Irish Historical Studies, Vol. XXXIV, No. 135, (May, 2005), pp.342-344. Invited Review Articles [Details] |
| Declan M. Downey (2011) Review of Igor Pérez Tostado, Irish Influence at the Court of Spain in the seventeenth century, in Irish Economic and Social History, (The Journal of the Economic and Social History of Ireland), Vol. XXXVIII, (2011), pp.162-164. Invited Review Articles [Details] |
Honours and Awards
| Year: 2007. Title: Knight-Commander in the Royal Order of Isabel la Católica: Encomienda en la Orden de Isabel la Católica |
| Year: 2003. Title: Knight's Cross of the Austrian Order of Merit (Ritterskreuz des Silbernes Ehrenzeichen fur Verdienste an der Repubik Osterreich) |
| Year: 2006. Title: Kerry Archaeological & Historical Society Heritage Award |
Associations
| Association: Irish Historical Society, Function/Role: Member |
| Association: Association of European Historians, Function/Role: Member |
Conference Contributions
| Downey, D.; (2008) Whether Habsburgs or Bourbons: Irish alignmentsin the War of the Spanish Succession, 1713-1723¿. [Keynote Address], Ireland and the Iberian Atlantic World, mobility, participation and intercultural exchange (1580-1823), Ibero-Americanos and Universidad Pablo de Olavide Escuela de Estudios, Seville , 30-OCT-08 - 01-NOV-08. |
| Co-Organiser & Co-Director with Dr. Enrique García Hernán (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid), and Dr. Igor Pérez Tostado Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville, ; (2008) The Second International Conference on Spanish-Irish relations Through The Ages and The Second Meeting of the Spanish Ministry of Science & Innovation¿s Project on the Social Identity and Integration of the Irish in Spain, 16-18 centuries, This major international collaboration was held as a joint-conference. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], \i Ireland and the Iberian Atlantic World, mobility, participation and intercultural exchange (1580-1823),0 , Seville, Escuela de Estudios Ibero-Americanos and Universidad Pablo de Olavide, , 30-OCT-08 - 01-NOV-08. |
| Special Guest Speaker; (2008) Commanders and Courtiers. The Kerry Presence at the Viennese Court, 1700-1800, chaired by Dr. Kathleen Browne, President of the Society,. [Invited Lecture], Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society Nóirín Uí Shúilleabháin Memorial Lecture, National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin , 07-APR-08 - 07-APR-08. |
| Invited Speaker; (2007) Irish statesmen and diplomats the service of Spanish Flanders: two case studies, Florence Conry and Patrick McNenny, chaired by Dr. Pádraig Conway, UCD Vice President for University Relations,. [Invited Lecture], First Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Summer School,, Irish College of St. Anthony, Leuven , 04-MAY-07 - 05-MAY-07. |
| Invited Keynote Speaker; (2007) ¿El Dinguel de Santiago¿: Kerry¿s Spanish Enclave, c.1200-1600,. [Keynote Address], Symposium on the eve of the revival of the medieval sea-route pilgrimage in the Jeanie Johnson0 from Dingle to Santiago de Compostella,, An Díseart , Daingean Uí Chúis-Dingle, , 28-APR-07 - 29-APR-07. |
| Keynote Speaker; (2007) The role of Lisbon in the Nine Years War and the Flight of the Earls. [Keynote Address], Symposium on the Flight of the Earls, chaired by H.E. the Irish Ambassador to Portugal, Mr. James Brennan,, Teatro Saõ Luis, Lisbon , 21-OCT-07 - 21-OCT-07. | |||||||||
| Keynote Speaker; (2007) Countering the Reformation: The Dominican Axis of Salamanca, Leuven and Kilkenny. [Keynote Address], The Black Abbey Symposium, Rothe House, Kilkenny , 13-OCT-07 - 13-OCT-07. | |||||||||
| Special Guest Speaker; (2007) Irish Nobiliary Integration in the Courts of Brussels, Madrid and Vienna, 1600-1800, chaired by Rev¿d. Dr. Anthony J. Gaughan,. [Invited Lecture], National Library Society Lecture Series, National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin , 14-NOV-07 - 14-NOV-07. | |||||||||
| Keynote Speaker; (2007) The Flight of the Earls : Exile or Opportunity. [Keynote Address], The Official National Commemoration of the 400 Anniversary of the Flight of the Earls, Rathmullan, County Donegal , 13-SEP-07 - 14-SEP-07. | |||||||||
| Co-Organiser & Co-Director with Dr. Julio Crespo MacLennan ( Instituto Ortega y Gasset, Madrid and former director of Instituto Cervantes, Dublin), ; (2004) This was the first major international conference that was dedicated exclusively to the new groundbreaking research and historiography concerning Irish relations with Spain and its former overseas possessions. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], The First International Conference on Spanish-Irish relations Through The Ages,, University of Salamanca, Colegio Fonseca (formerly the Irish College), , 11-NOV-04 - 14-NOV-04. | |||||||||
| Downey, D; (2006) Rekindling and old Friendship. [N/A], Rekindling and old Friendship, Royal Irish Academy , 28-FEB-06 - 07-JUN-06. | |||||||||
| Downey, D; (2006) Congreso de Historia Militar. [Plenary Lecture], Congreso de Historia Militar, Madrid , 09-MAR-06 - 12-MAR-06. | |||||||||
| Downey, D; (2006) Making Irish Modernism. [Chaired Session], Making Irish Modernism, Tarbert, Co. Kerry , 21-APR-06 - 22-APR-06. | |||||||||
| Downey, D.; (2006) Milesianism, Catholicism and Monarchism. [Keynote Address], Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientifícas, Madrid , 24-JUN-06 - 24-JUN-06. | |||||||||
| Downey, D.; (2006) Irish interests in the Austrian Hapsburg Balkans & Transylvania c.1700-1918. [Invited Lecture], Irish interests in the Austrian Hapsburg Balkans & Transylvania c.1700-1918, University of Vienna , 04-MAY-06 - 04-MAY-06. | |||||||||
| Downey, D.; (2006) Embracing the Habsburg Via Mortis. [Invited Lecture], The Politics of Dead Bodies, School of History, UCD , 10-MAR-06 - 10-MAR-06. | |||||||||
| Declan Downey; (2002) At the Epicentre of Empire: the Irish in the Viennese Court. [Conference Organising Committee Member], Chaired by Professor Dr. Eda Sagarra at the symposium The Irish under Austrian Colours c.1618-1918, that I had organised with H.E. Dr. Paul Leifer , Austrian Ambassador to Ireland and Mr. Walter Kirwan, Secretary General for the Forum on Europe, Department of An Taoiseach (Prime Minister), St Patrick's Hall, Dublin Castle , 31-OCT-02. | |||||||||
| Declan Downey; (2002) Count William OKelly of Aughrim, Supreme Herald of the Holy Roman Empire in the reign of Charles VI. [Invited Lecture], The International Conference for Heraldry and Genealogy, chaired by Dr. Fergus Gillespie, Assistant Chief Herald of Ireland, Dublin Castle , 21-SEP-02. | |||||||||
| Declan Downey; (2001) 'El carácter castellano de los contrarreformistas irlandeses, 1560-1670. [Invited Lecture], The international conference Irlanda y la Monarquía Hispánica : Kinsale, 1601-2001. Guerra, Politica, Exilio y Religion, Instituto de Historia del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid. (Chaired by Professor Dr.Quintín Aldea Vaquero), Madrid , 01-MAR-01. | |||||||||
| Declan Downey; (2001) Breeders of Treachery : Observant friars and Seminary Priests. Early Resistance to the Church by Law Established. [Invited Lecture], Conference Enforcing Reformation: Ireland and Scotland, 1560-1690, chaired by Professor Colm Lennon, Trinity College, Dublin, Dublin , 30-MAR-01. | |||||||||
| Declan Downey; (1999) Agostiniani e Scotisti; il contributo irlandese alla teologia della Controriforma nellEuropa continentale. [Invited Lecture], conference Storia Religiosa dell' Irlanda, XXI settimana europea, Fondazione Ambrosiana Paolo VI, Villa Cagnola, Gazzada, Varese. (Chaired by Professor Donal Kerr), Milan , 08-SEP-99. | |||||||||
| Declan Downey; (1999) The Crusader mentality in 16 C. Ireland and the continuity of Irish knights in the Military & Hospitaller orders of Ancien Régime Europe. [Conference Organising Committee Member], Conference Ireland and the Crusades from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Century. (Chaired by Dr. Ciaran Brady , University College Dublin), Dublin , 10-SEP-99. | |||||||||
| Declan Downey; (1998) 'Some Observations on the parallels concerning Ireland and India's respective experiences of Imperial Withdrawal'. [Invited Lecture], Conference of The Decline of Empires, Austrian Cultural Institute.(Chaired by Professor Dominic Lieven), London , 27-NOV-98. | |||||||||
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Committees
| Committee : Spanish-Irish Historians Conference |
| Committee : Hoghe Raad van Adel, Den Haag, The Netherlands |
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Internal Collaborators
| IRCHSS |
External Collaborators
| Japan Foundation Fellowship |