Staff and Scholars Past and Present
Dr John McCafferty, Director
Dr John McCafferty is
the Director of the UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute. His
expertise is on ecclesiastical history particularly the reformation and
counter-reformation in Ireland. He
is the author of John Bramhall and the
reconstruction of the Church of Ireland 1633-1641 (Cambridge, 2007), a study
of the institutional and theological reorientation of Protestantism in
Ireland. He is currently
completing a short study of early modern Irish hagiography and a larger study of
Miler Mac Grath, Archbishop of Cashel. He will begin a President’s Research Fellowship
in Autumn 2010 to work on the Franciscan historic library project. He is a
member of the Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Dr Edel
Bhreathnach, Deputy Director
Dr Edel Bhreathnach is a medieval
historian who has worked on many topics in early and late medieval Irish
history including Tara, Co Meath, the intellectual history of medieval Ireland,
landscape surveys and the friars in the vernacular tradition. She coordinated
the national commemoration ‘Louvain 400’ in 2007 and manages the UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh seminars and the Institute's projects.
She is the author of Tara: a select
bibliography and editor of The
kingship and landscape of Tara (Dublin, 2005). She is co-editor
with Dr Bernadette Cunningham of Writing
Irish History. The Four Masters and their world (Dublin, 2007), a catalogue
of an exhibition held in Trinity College Library in 2007. She is also co-editor
with Dr John McCafferty, UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute
and Dr Joseph MacMahon OFM of The Irish
Franciscans 1534-1990 (Dublin, 2009).
Dr
Joseph MacMahon OFM
Dr Joseph MacMahon OFM
is Secretary of the Irish Franciscan Province. He holds degrees in history,
philosophy and theology from the National University of Ireland Galway (B.A.)
and the Catholic University of Louvain (Ph.B, S.T.D., Ph.D.). He lectured in
theology in Catholic institutes in Latin America and Africa. In recent years,
he has worked on the Irish Franciscan contribution to Scotism and is a member
of the UCD-OFM Partnership Committee that oversees the work of the UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute.
Dr
Benjamin Hazard
Dr Benjamin Hazard is
the ‘Louvain 400’ Fellow at the UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute and is
an expert in Irish connections with Europe in the seventeenth century. He is
currently working on a major conservation and digitisation project on the UCD-OFM
Wadding Papers. He is the author of Faith and patronage. The political career of Flaithrí Ó
Maolchonaire c. 1560-1620 (Dublin, 2009).
Dr
Malgorzata Krasnodebska D’Aughton, UCC
School of History
Dr Malgorzata D’Aughton is a medieval
historian, who specialises in the cultural and religious history of the Middle
Ages. She lectures on the religious orders, art and religious
devotion and Irish monasticism in the School of History, Univerity College Cork. Between 2004 and 2008, as an
IRCHSS Research Fellow at the Mícheál
Ó Cléirigh Institute, she carried out a pioneering survey of medieval and
early modern artefacts from existing mendicant houses in Ireland. Dr D’Aughton advised on the Franciscan Faith: Sacred Art in Ireland
1600-1750 exhibition currently on display in the National Museum of Ireland Collins
Barracks.
Dr Colmán Ó Clabaigh is a monk of Glenstal Abbey Co. Limerick and a former research fellow of the Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute. He is the author of The Franciscans in Ireland 1400-1534 (Dublin, 2002) . He co-edited The Irish Benedictines: a history (Dublin, 2005) and also Art and devotion in late medieval Ireland (Dublin, 2006). His monograph, The friars in Ireland 1224-1540 (forthcoming) is a survey of the history and lifestyle of the mendicant friars in Ireland beginning with the arrival of the Dominicans in Dublin in 1224 and concluding with the Dissolution campaign of 1540.
Dr Vincent Morley
Dr
Vincent Morley holds an MPhil in
Irish studies from UCD and a PhD in history from the University of Liverpool.
Dr Morley is a former research fellow of the Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute. He is
author of An Crann os Coill: Aodh Buí Mac
Cruitín c.1680-1755 (Dublin, 1995), Irish
Opinion and the American
Revolution, 1760-1783 (Cambridge, 2002) and Washington i gCeannas a Ríochta: Cogadh Mheiriceá agus Litríocht na
Gaeilge (Dublin, 2005). He has recently edited an anthology of the poetry
of Aodh Buí Mac Cruitín which will be the fifth volume in Field Day's 'Filí' series. He is currently writing a book on the development of popular
views of the Irish past from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.
Dr Bernadette Cunningham, Royal
Irish Academy
Dr Bernadette Cunningham
is Deputy Librarian in the Royal Irish Academy. She is the author of The world of Geoffrey Keating: history and
myth and religion in seventeenth-century Ireland (Dublin, 2000), co-author
(with Raymond Gillespie) of Stories from
Gaelic Ireland: micorhistories from the sixteenth-century Irish annals
(Dublin, 2003) and co-editor (with Edel Bhreathnach) of Writing Irish History. The Four Masters and their world. Her monograph, The Annals of the Four Masters. Irish
history, kingship and society in the early seventeenth century surveys the scholarly and
political context that inspired the seventeenth-century annalists and reconstructs the networks of professional expertise and patronage that
contributed to the pursuit of scholarship about the Irish past.
Dr Frank Lawrence, UCD School of
Music
Dr Frank Lawrence is Lecturer in Early Music History at the
UCD School of Music. He is a graduate in Music and Modern Irish of NUI Maynooth
and a Theology graduate of the Pontifical University, Maynooth. He was awarded a graduate scholarship by the Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute and an IRCHSS Government of Ireland
scholarship for his doctoral dissertation. His principal research is on manuscript sources of the medieval
chant traditions of the British Isles and northwestern Europe. He is a
contributor and advisory editor to the Encyclopaedia
of Music in Ireland (EMIR).
Dr Emmett O’Byrne is a historian of late medieval and early modern Ireland. He is the author of War, politics and the Irish of Leinster, 1156-1606 (Dublin, 2003). He worked as a contributor to the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Irish Biography from 1999-2003 and was awarded a Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute research fellowship (2003-6). He is currently working on a monograph on the Wicklow chieftain Feagh McHugh O’Byrne (d. 1597), one of the supporters of the Earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnell during the Nine Years War.