Dr Tadhg O' Hannrachain BA, MPhil, PhD.
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Biography:
| PhD (EUI), Mphil (NUI) |
Research Interests
| My principal research interests are in the history of Early modern Ireland and the European Counter-Reformation. My current major research project, , which was largely made possible by my UCD presidential fellowship of 2005-06, is a comparative study of the European Counter-Reformation, with a particular geographical emphasis on Ireland and on Hungary. This project involves a close examination of controversial religious literature and the formulation of confessional national identities through the media of hagiography and history. I am also currently working on the Irish Counter-Reformation in a comparative context. This project draws largely on my research on Hungarian and Balkan Catholicism. My aim is to use this material to contextualise the Irish experience of religious change in the seventeenth century. I have already submitted two articles on aspects of this process one of which which will appear in a collections to be published by Dundee University Press and the other is in a collection which was published by Palgrave in 2008 and I anticipate submitting two further articles to two prestige academic journals in 2009-10.I am at present also in the preparatory stages of this project which will involve the production of a monograph on the subject of the evolution of Early Modern Irish Catholicism. In my first book for Oxford University Press, I have already made a close examination of catholic reform in Ireland in the second quarter of the seventeenth century. That study outlined a trajectory for the Irish counter-reformation different to that which has customarily been accepted but a wider focused book is undoubtedly necessary to establish the long term continuity of the number of themes which I outlined. |
Books
| Ó hAnnrachain, T.; (2002) Catholic Reformation in Ireland: The Mission of Rinuccini, 1645-49. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Details] |
Book Chapters
| Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin; (2008) 'Les îles Britanniques et l'Irlande' In: Wolfgang Kaiser (eds). L'Europe en conflits: Les affrontements religieux et la genèse de l'Europe moderne vers 1500 vers 1650. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes. [Details] |
| Ó hAnnracháin, T.; (2008) 'The Consolidation of Irish Catholicism within a hostile Imperial Framework: A Comparative Study of Early Modern Ireland and Hungary' In: Carey, H (eds). Empires of Religion. London: Palgrave Press. [Details] |
| Ó hAnnracháin, T.; (2009) 'The Maintenance of Habsburg Rule in Early Modern Hungary' In: McKillop, A. & Micheál Ó Siochrú (eds). Forging the State: European State Formation and the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707. Scotland: Dundee University Press. [Details] |
| Ó hAnnracháin, T. & Armstrong, R.; (2006) ''Theorizing community in Early Modern Ireland'' In: Armstrong, R. & Ó hAnnracháin, T (eds). Community in Early Modern Ireland. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details] |
| Ó hAnnracháin, T.; (2006) ''Confederate diplomatic missions to Rome in the 1640s'' In: O¿Connor, T. & Lyons, M-A (eds). Irish Communities in Early Modern Europe. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details] |
| Ó hAnnracháin, T.; (2006) ''Parliaments and Assemblies: the ideal of community representation in Early Modern Ireland'' In: Armstrong, R. & Ó hAnnracháin, T (eds). Community in Early Modern Ireland. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details] | |||||||||
| Ó hAnnracháin, T.; (2005) ''In imitation of that holy patron of prelates the blessed St. Charles: Episcopal activity in Ireland and the formation of a confessional identity, 1618-1653'' In: Ford, A. & McCafferty, J (eds). The Origins of Sectarianism in Ireland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Details] | |||||||||
| Ó hAnnrachain, T.; (2003) 'A Typical Anomaly? The Success of the Irish Counter-Reformation' In: Clarke, H. & Devlin, J (eds). European Encounters: Essays in Memory of Albert Lovett. Dublin: University College Dublin Press. [Details] | |||||||||
| Ó hAnnracháin, T.; (2003) 'Theory in the Absence of Fact: Irish Women and the Catholic Reformation' In: Meek, C (eds). Pawns or Players: Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details] | |||||||||
| Ó hAnnrachain, T.; (2002) 'Disrupted and disruptive: continental influence on the Confederate Catholics of Ireland' In: Macinnes, A.I. & and Ohlmeyer, J (eds). The Stuart Kingdoms in the Seventeenth Century. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details] | |||||||||
| Ó hAnnrachain, T.; (2001) 'The Strategic Involvement of Continental Powers in Ireland 1596-1691' In: Lenihan, P (eds). Conquest and Resistance: War in Seventeenth Century Ireland. *: Brill Academic Publishers. [Details] | |||||||||
| Ó hAnnrachain, T.; (2001) 'Lost in Rinuccinis Shadow: The Irish Clergy, 1645-9' In: Ó Siochrú, M (eds). Kingdoms in Crisis: Ireland in the 1640s. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details] | |||||||||
| Ó hAnnrachain, T.; (2000) 'Though Hereticks and politicians should misdoubt their good zeal: Political Ideology and Catholicism in Early Modern Ireland' In: Ohlmeyer, J (eds). Political Thought in Seventeenth-Century Ireland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Details] | |||||||||
| Ó hAnnrachain, T.; (1997) 'Rebels and Confederates: The Stance of the clergy in the 1640s' In: Young, J (eds). Celtic Dimensions of the British Civil Wars. Edinburgh: John Donald. [Details] | |||||||||
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Edited Books
| Armstrong, R (Ed.). (2006) Community in Early Modern Ireland, edited with Robert Armstrong. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
| Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin; (2010) 'The Miraculous Mathematics of the World'. Studies in Church History, 46 . [Details] |
| Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin; (2009) 'Guerre de religion ou guerre ethnique? les conflits religieux en Irlande 1500 1650'. Revue historique, 649 :65-97. [Details] |
| Ó'hAnnracháin, T.; (2008) 'The poet and mutinies: the collapse of the Munster army 1645-7'. Proceedings of Royal Irish Academy, 108 :65-74. [Details] |
| Ó hAnnracháin, T.; (2005) 'Catholicism in Early Modern Ireland and Britain'. History Compass, . [Details] |
| Ó'hAnnracháin, T.; (2004) 'Conflicting loyalties, conflicted rebels: Political and Religious allegiance among the Confederate Catholics of Ireland'. English Historical Review, 119 . [Details] |
| Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin; (1993) 'Vatican diplomacy and the mission of Rinuccini to Ireland'. Archivium Hibernicum, 47 :77-87. [Details] | |||||||||
| Ó hAnnracháin, T.; (2008) 'The Heroic Importance of Sport: The GAA in the 1930s'. International Journal of the History of Sport, 25 (10):1326-1337. [Details] | |||||||||
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Other Journals
| Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin, William Kelly, Micheál Ó Siochrú, Gráinne McLaughlin, John Morrill, Anna Chahoud; (2008) 'Commentarius Rinuccinianus' History Ireland 16 (2) :Insert 1-6. [Details] |
Honours and Awards
| Year: 2002. Title: IRCHSS Research Fellowship |
| Year: 2005. Title: President's Research Fellowship, UCD |
Associations
| Association: Irish Historical Society, Function/Role: Member |
| Association: Military History Society, Function/Role: Member |
| Association: Historical Association of Ireland, Function/Role: President |
| Association: Commentarius Rinuccinianus Translation Project, Function/Role: Consultant Editor |
| Association: Sports History Ireland, Function/Role: Member |
Conference Contributions
| Ó'hAnnracháin, T.; (2005) Place and Memory in the new Ireland. [Other], Fifth EFACIS Conference, Gothenburg , 05-DEC-05 - 08-DEC-05. |
| O hAnnrachain, T.; (2006) Politics of Dead Bodies conference. [Invited Lecture], Politics of Dead Bodies conference, Centre for History of the Body, UCD , 10-MAR-06 - 10-MAR-06. |
| O hAnnrachain, T.; (2006) Battle of the Boyne Conference. [Invited Lecture], Battle of the Boyne Conference, Drogheda , 27-APR-06 - 28-APR-06. |
| O hAnnrachain, T.; (2006) Empires of Religion Conference. [International Refereed Conference], Empires of Religion Conference, Global Irish Institute, UCD , 20-JUN-06 - 21-JUN-07. |
| Tadhg Ó hAnnrachain; (1999) Lost in Rinuccinis Shadow: The Irish Clergy, 1645-9. [Invited Lecture], Kingdoms in Crisis Conference, St. Patrick?s College, Drumcondra , 01-MAR-99. |
| Tadhg Ó hAnnrachain; (1998) The Organisation of the Counter-Reformation Church in Ireland, 1618-1641. [Invited Lecture], Conference on the Roots of Sectarianism in Ireland, University College Dublin , 01-JUN-98. | |||||||||
| Tadhg Ó hAnnrachain; (1998) Disrupted and disruptive: continental influence on the Confederate Catholics of Ireland. [Invited Lecture], Awkward Neighbour Conference, University of Aberdeen , 01-SEP-98. | |||||||||
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Committees
| Committee : Editorial Committee of Commentarius Rinuccinianus translation project |
| Committee : Executive Committee, Historical Association of Ireland |
Languages
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Outreach Activities
| As president of the Historical Association of Ireland I have been involved in the provision of public lectures on topics of critical relevance to the Leaving Certificate Syllabus. I have also recently completed two contributions for the New leaving Certificate Syllabus text-book series. In addition, I have provided public lectures to specific schools on specialist areas of the Leaving certificate syllabus, most recently to King's Hospital in 2006. |
Internal Collaborators
| I am an active member of the Early Modern Research strand in UCD and organised a symposium under its auspices in June 2007. I am currently organising the publication of those proceedings. |
External Collaborators
| I am currently involved in the following collaborative research projects: Insular Christianity, 1500-1700. In collaboration with Dr Robert Armstrong (TCD), Professor Alan Ford (Nottingham) and Dr Crawford Gribben, I have been awarded funding of almost 300,000 euro for this project. 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. The Commentarius Rinuccinianus Translation Project I was one of the chief consultant historical editors for this project, headed by Dr William Kelly, based in the University of Ulster and funded by the Department of Arts, Sports and Tourism, which involved the translation and digitisation of one of the most important Latin sources for Early Modern Irish History. As effectively the only living historian who has studied and utilised this three-thousand page text, I was consistently involved in all aspects of the project.I am now part of the board appointed by the Irish Manucsript Commission to publish a corrected hard copy of the text. |