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. Between 2008 and 2011 I was the joint principal investigator in the IRCHSS-funded project, Insular Christianity. The goal of the project was to break down some of the barriers between the study of confessional or national groups, and to encourage the study of religious history in the widest senses, from the theological to the social, from visual culture to political engagement. As such it targeted particular themes and topics, ripe for collaborative investigation, and with wider resonances within and beyond these islands. At the heart of the project was the development of a scholarly network which focused on three successive symposia, 'Catholic and Presbyterian: alternative establsihments' (Spring 2009), 'Celtic Christianities: appropriations and adaptations' (Spring 2010) and 'The Early Modern Bible: Controversy, Exegisis and Diffusion (2011), the last of these coinciding with the quatercentenary of the publication of the King James Bible, held in Dublin in successive years. The symposia were not standard academic conference. Firstly, the papers, commissioned in advance, were intended to stand mid-way between the standard, specialized conference paper or journal article, and the textbook-style overview. Secondly, the papers were submitted in advance, and ciruclated to all other participants in a closed website, to allow for comment and exchange of views in advance of the symposium itself which allowed participants to benefit from the expertise of colleagues working adjacent fields or in a different national context. The first volume to emerge from this project, Insular Christianity: alternative models of the Church in Britain and Ireland c. 1570 c. 1700 (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2012) is due to appear at the end of 2012. The second volume, Christianities in the Early Modern Celtic World will be published by Palgrave in 2013. The third volume, The English Bible in the Early Modern World will appear from Ashgate, also in 2013. My current research projects are to finish a book on Catholic narrative histories of the 1640s and to continue my work on the comparative history of the inculcation of religious change in Habsburg Hungary and Stuart Ireland. |
Research Projects
| Sponsor : Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) Title : Insular Christianity 1530-1750: the evolution of Irish and British religious communities Start Date / End Date : 01-SEP-09 / 31-AUG-11 |
| Sponsor : Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) Title : Peoples of seventeenth-century Ireland: Aristotelianism and ethnicity before race Start Date / End Date : 01-OCT-09 / 30-SEP-10 |
| Sponsor : University College Dublin (UCD) Title : Disputatio Apologetica Start Date / End Date : 01-MAY-12 / 31-OCT-13 |
| Sponsor : University College Dublin (UCD) Title : Yehuda Shenhav Start Date / End Date : 01-MAY-12 / 31-OCT-13 |
Recent Postgraduates
| I supervise graduate work in all the major areas of my research and teaching interests. I contribute to the flourishing MA programme in Early Modern History. I initiated and teach the Religion and Society MA within the School of History and Archives. Aiden Coleman Bcomm, MA completed his PhD under my supervision in 2012. In the academic session 2011-2012 I supervised five MA dissertations and four in the year 2010-11. |
Current Postgraduate Students
| Duncan Wallace, Master of Science (MSc) - Thesis Supervisor |
| Brian Murphy, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - Thesis Supervisor |
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; (2010) 'The Survival of the Catholic Church in Ulster in the era of the Flight of the Earls and the Ulster Plantation' In: David Finnegan, Éamonn Ó Ciardha, M.C. Peters (eds). The Flight of the Earls: Immeacht na nIarlaí. Derry: Guildhall Press. [Details] |
| Tadhg O hAnnrachain (2012) '¿Bridging the Ethnic Divide: Creating a Catholic Identity in Early Modern Ireland¿' In: Lingua e testi delle riforme cattoliche in Europa e nelle Americhe. Florence, Italy: Cesati. [Details] |
| Tadhg O hAnnrachain (2012) '¿An Alternative Establishment: The Evolution of the Irish Catholic Hierarchy, 1600-1649¿' In: Insular Christianity: alternative models of the Church in Britain and Ireland c. 1570¿c. 1700. UK: Manchester University Press. [Details] |
| Tadhg O hAnnrachain and Robert Armstrong (2012) 'Alternative establishments? Insular Catholicism and Presbyterianism' In: Tadhg O hAnnrachain and Robert Armstrong (eds). Insular Christianity: alternative models of the Church in Britain and Ireland c. 1570¿c. 1700. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. [Details] |
| 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
| Tadhg O hAnnrachain and Robert Armstrong (Ed.). (2012) Insular Christianity: alternative models of the Church in Britain and Ireland c. 1570¿c. 1700. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. [Details] |
| Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin and Robert Armstrong (Ed.). (2006) Community in Early Modern Ireland, edited with Robert Armstrong. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
| Tadhg O hAnnrachain (2012) 'Giovanni Battista Rinuccini and the Confederate Catholics of Ireland'. Shiso, 1063 :192-207. [Details] |
| 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] |
Working Paper
Tadhg O hAnnrachain; (2010) ¿The Church of Ireland and the native Irish population in plantation Ulster¿?. Institute for British-Irish Studies, UCD: Working Paper  [Details] |
Invited Review Articles
| Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin; (2004) New Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Invited Review Articles [Details] |
| Ó hAnnracháin, T.; (2009) Dictionary of Irish Biography. Cambridge:: Invited Review Articles [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
| Tadhg O hAnnrachain; (2000) The Social and Cultural Formation of an Irish Nuncio. [Invited Lecture], Symposium on Irish Ecclesiastical History, Irish College, Rome , 07-MAY-00 - 07-MAY-00. |
| Tadhg O hAnnrachain; (2001) The Counter-Reformation and the Women of Catholic Ireland. [Invited Lecture], Women at home, women abroad' conference, TCD , 23-FEB-01 - 23-FEB-01. |
| Tadhg O hAnnrachain; (2003) Pádraigín Haicéad and the Munster army 1645-7. [Invited Lecture], Comhdháil Lae ar Léann na Gaeilge - Ómós don Ollamh Tomás Ó Con Cheanainn, UCD , 06-DEC-03. |
| Tadhg O hAnnrachain; (2003) Parliaments, councils and assemblies': Moral communities of Governance. [Invited Lecture], Communities in Early Modern Ireland, UCD , 07-SEP-03 - 07-SEP-03. |
| Tadhg O hAnnrachain; (2003) Interdisciplinary conference on the topic of community in Early Modern Ireland. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Communities in Early Modern Ireland, UCD , 05-SEP-03 - 07-SEP-03. |
| Tadhg O hAnnrachain; (2004) Irish Diplomatic Missions to Rome in the 1640s. [Invited Lecture], Third International Conference of the Irish in Europe Project, NUIM campus, St. Kieran¿s College, Kilkenny , 15-MAY-04. | |||||||||
| Tadhg O hAnnrachain; (2005) 'The GAA and notions of Irish Identity in the 1930s'. [Invited Lecture], Sports History Ireland, Inaugural Conference,, Humanities Institute of Ireland, UCD , 14-FEB-05. | |||||||||
| Tadhg O hAnnrachain; (2007) Peter Pazmany and the fate of catholics in Britain and Ireland. [Invited Lecture], The Culture of Disputation in Early Modern Ireland, HII, UCD , 20-JUN-07 - 20-JUN-07. | |||||||||
| Tadhg O hAnnrachain; (2007) Symposium on Religious Controversy. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Culture of Disputation in Early Modern Ireland, HII, UCD , 20-JUN-07 - 20-JUN-07. | |||||||||
| Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin; (2008) Bishops as Instruments of Leadership of Early Modern Catholic Reform in Non-Catholic European States: the Cases of Ireland and Turkish Hungary Considered¿. [Invited Oral Presentation], CIHEC British-dutch Colloquium: 'Religious Leadership', School of History, University of Kent, Canterbury , 10-APR-08 - 13-APR-08. | |||||||||
| Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin; (2008) Disappointing Friends: France and the Confederate Catholics of Ireland, 1642-48. [International Refereed Conference], Interactions et Transferts entre la France et les Isles Brittanniques, 1640-60, Université Paris 13 , 25-JAN-08 - 26-JAN-06. | |||||||||
| Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin; (2008) ¿The Miraculous Mathematics of the World¿: Proving the existence of God in Cardinal Péter Pázmány¿s Kalauz. [International Refereed Conference], Ecclesiastical History Society Summer Conference 2008, 'God's Bounty? The Churches and the Natural World, NUIG, , 23-JUL-08 - 26-JUL-08. | |||||||||
| Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin; (2009) Co-chair of Organising Committee. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Insular Christianity 1550-1730 1: 'Catholic and Presbyterian: alternative establishments, Trinity College Dublin , 02-JUN-09 - 03-JUN-09. | |||||||||
| Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin; (2009) Catholic Episcopal leadership in non-Catholic Early Modern States. [International Refereed Conference], Insular Christianity 1550-1730 1: 'Catholic and Presbyterian: alternative establishments¿, Trinity College Dublin , 02-JUN-09 - 03-JUN-09. | |||||||||
| Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin; (2009) The Church of Ireland and the Native Irish Population in Plantation Ulster. [Invited Oral Presentation], Ibis annual conference:Protestant traditions and the paths to peace: Beyond the legacies of plantation¿, Global Irish Institute, UCD , 09-JUN-09 - 09-JUN-09. | |||||||||
| Tadhg O hAnnrachain; (2010) The Plantation of Ulster. [Invited Lecture], Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Symposium on Plantation, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion Square , 11-OCT-10 - 11-OCT-10. | |||||||||
| Tadhg O hAnnrachain; (2010) The Church of Ireland and the native Irish in plantation Ulster.¿. [Invited Lecture], THE CHURCH OF IRELAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY CONFERENCE, Christ Church Cathedral , 20-NOV-10 - 20-NOV-10. | |||||||||
| Tadhg O hAnnrachain; (2010) ¿The Politics of Confessional Alignment in Early Modern Ireland¿. [Invited Lecture], MacMillan Center Initiative on Religion, Politics, & Society,Yale, Rosenkranz Hall, Yale University , 08-FEB-10 - 08-FEB-10. | |||||||||
| Tadhg O hAnnrachain; (2010) Recent developments in the historiography of Catholicism in Ireland in the seventeenth century. [Invited Lecture], ¿New directions in research on religion in early modern Ireland¿, UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland , 07-OCT-10 - 07-OCT-10. | |||||||||
| Tadhg O hAnnrachain; (2010) Bridging the Ethnic Divide? Creating a Catholic Identity in Early Modern Ireland. [Invited Lecture], THE LANGUAGES AND TEXTS OF THE CATHOLIC REFORMS IN EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS (XVI-XXI CENT.), University of Naples ¿L¿Orientale¿ , 04-NOV-10 - 04-NOV-10. | |||||||||
| Tadhg O hAnnrachain; (2010) Second Insular Christianity Network International Conference. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Celtic Christianities, Humanities Institute of Ireland, UCD , 19-MAR-10 - 20-MAR-10. | |||||||||
| Tadhg O hAnnrachain (2011) The Aphorismical Discovery and the Politics of the Dead. [Invited Lecture], Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference, UCD , 03-SEP-11 - 03-NOV-12. | |||||||||
| Tadhg O hAnnrachain (2011) The third symposium held under the auspices of the IRCHSS-funded Insular Christianity project. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Insular Christianity Symposium 3: The Early Modern Bible, Trinity College Dublin , 27-MAY-11 - 28-MAY-11. | |||||||||
| Tadhg O hAnnrachain (2011) Session 4C. [Chaired Session], Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference, UCD , 03-SEP-11 - 03-SEP-11. | |||||||||
| Tadhg O hAnnrachain (2012) Catholic Hierarchies in partibus infidelium. [Invited Lecture], Catholic Reformation Research Workshop, University of Birmingham , 09-JUN-12 - 09-JUN-12. | |||||||||
| Tadhg O hAnnrachain (2012) Session 4A. [Chaired Session], Representations of Ireland, Károli Gáspár University, Budapest , 31-AUG-12 - 31-AUG-12. | |||||||||
| Tadhg O hAnnrachain (2012) Cardinal Péter Pázmány and the Guide to the Divine Truth. [Invited Lecture], 'Networks and Identities in the Catholic Reformation', Moore Institute, NUIG , 27-APR-12 - 27-APR-12. | |||||||||
| Tadhg O hAnnrachain (2012) Paper on State Power and the Inculcation of Religious Change. [Invited Lecture], Beyond the Island: Transnational Approaches to History, Moore Institute, NUIG , 20-APR-12 - 20-APR-12. | |||||||||
| Tadhg O hAnnrachain (2012) Delivered Paper 'Italian perceptions of Irish Catholicism during the 1640s'. [Invited Lecture], Representations of Ireland, Károli Gáspár University , 31-AUG-12 - 31-AUG-12. | |||||||||
| Tadhg O hAnnrachain (2012) An Imperial Parallel: The Catholic Reformation in Habsburg Hungary and Stuart Ireland. [Invited Lecture], Catholic Historical Society of Ireland Annual Conference: 'Ireland Empire and Christian Civilisation', NUIM , 02-NOV-12 - 02-NOV-12. | |||||||||
| 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 |
Education
| Year 1995 Institution: Qualification: PhD Subject: |
| Year 1986 Institution: University College Dublin Qualification: MPhil Subject: |
| Year 1984 Institution: University College Dublin Qualification: BA Subject: |
Languages
| Gaeilge: |
| French: |
| German: |
| Hungarian: |
| Italian: |
| English: | |||||||||
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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. |
Other Activities
| Nov. 2 2007 "The inculcation of religious change in Early Modern Hungary and Ireland: a Comparative perspective" Paper delivered to MOC Institute, UC 11 November 2006 Paper entitled “Tara and the rebellion of 1641”, delivered to TaraWatch, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland.
5 December 2006 Paper entitled “Popular and elite religion: a false dichotomy” delivered to the Irish Historical Society, Boston College, Ireland 26 January 2004 Paper entitled “The Counter-Reformation in Ireland and Hungary, 1590-1648: Some areas of comparison and contrast” delivered to the Research Seminar in Irish and British History, TCD
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| External Examination of PhD thesis, UCC 25/09/2006 |
| External Examination of Mlitt thesis 15/02/2006 |
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 a member of the Humanities Institute of Ireland and organised a guest lecture as part of its migration network by Professor Heinz Schilling in 2011. In conjunction with the Global Irish Institute I organised a series of six guest lectures which brought Peter Berger, Jose Casanova, Barbara Diefendorfer, Tina Beattie, Yehuda Shenhav and Philip Gorski to UCD. |
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. |
Teaching Philosophy
| In teaching I believe that I have both a duty of care to students and a duty of rigour to the discipline. I strive to create an informal atmosphere conducive to a genuine shared learning experience in my classes. I place significant emphasis on documentary analysis in all class components |
Modules Coordinated
| 201200 HIS41570 History: Academic Skills |
| 201200 HIS41590 History: Conf Organisation / Jour. Pub |
| 201200 HIS41550 History: Internship/Project Attachment |
| 201200 HIS41500 History: Foundations in History |
| 201200 HIS41740 History: Religions and Societies |
| 201200 HIS41030 History: Dissertation (History) | |||||||||
| 201200 HIS41560 History: Field Trip/Workshop | |||||||||
| 201200 HIS41760 History: Research Seminar 2 | |||||||||
| 201200 HIS41210 History: Work Placement | |||||||||
| 201200 HIS41750 History: Research Seminar 1 | |||||||||
| 201200 HIS20130 History: Land, Religion, Identity: Irel | |||||||||
| 201200 HIS31140 History: The West and Middle East | |||||||||
| 201200 HIS41660 History: Research Project (Grad. Dip.) | |||||||||
| 201200 HIS41510 History: Teaching Undegraduate History | |||||||||
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Enhancement of Teaching
| I have at all times attempted to enhance my teaching through maintaining a strong link between my own on-going learning and research and the classroom environment. I have made extensive use of student feedback over the past number of years, in particular with regard to my lecturing style and in implementing a variety of techniques within seminars in order to enhance the learning experience. I have also experimented with different modes of assessment. In some modules I have maintained a traditional end of semester examination but in others I have substituted an end of semester assignment which has resulted in significantly better student performance. Through the use of the Blackboard environment I have also attempted to create a more interactive and informal environment of learning for students. |
Review and Enhancement of Curriculum
| I am engaged in a constant process of revision and enhancement of my teaching contribution. My objective has always been to refresh my teaching through the importation of material and ideas from my own evolving research and reading. I have also significantly expanded my range of teaching. Over the past three years, I have introduced an entirely new sub-specialism, Religion and Society, into the History MA and have developed a very wide-ranging core module for that programme. In the current academic year, I have also contributed a third of the teaching to the new first year module on Sport and Society specially dedicated for single subject History students. I am also a contributory partner to the new Nineteenth century MA within the School which has opened up a new area of graduate teaching for me. |
Developing as a Teacher
| I believe that I am constantly developing as a teacher, both by experience, by attendance at seminars, especially discipline-specific seminars, and by the use of student feed-back. I believe that the student body is also evolving in terms of its expectations and capabilities. To some extent skills which previous generations of students might have possessed are no longer now as common, especially with regard to the ability to read and engage with documents and to make use of non-electronic resources in the preparation of assignments and examinations. On the other hand, students now have expectations that the Blackboard enviroment will offer them the majority of the material which they will need to complete course work. The task of the teacher is both to accommodate aspects of these expectations while maintaining the expectation that university study should still involve significant independent thought and research. |
Innovation & Leadership
| Within the classroom I have at all times striven to introduce new techniques of learning. Over the past number of years I have experimented with a variety of different techniques to create an enhanced learning atmosphere within seminars, such as the use of peer marking, fish bowl exercises and a wide variety of group assignments. Most recently, I attended the Writing and Learning workshop organised by the school in the second semester of the academic session 2010-11 and have been |