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Aaron Alejandro Olivas – The Iberian Atlantic and the War of the Spanish Succession

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Aaron Alejandro Olivas is assistant professor of History at Texas A&M International University (Laredo, TX).

He received his PhD in History from UCLA in 2013. He was a recipient of a Mellon grant at the Huntington Library, an Ahmanson-Getty postdoctoral fellowship at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and a Fulbright IIE grant in Spain.

His research focuses on the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Iberian Atlantic World, specifically trans-imperial relations between elites of Spanish America, France, and the French Antilles. He has published a number of articles and essays on the topic. His current book project examines colonial responses to the transition from Habsburg to Bourbon rule in the Spanish Empire.

In episode 13 of History Hub’s podcast series – ‘Kingdom, Empire and Plus Ultra: conversations on the history of Portugal and Spain, 1415-1898‘ – Professor Olivas is in conversation with series host Dr Edward Collins. In the episode, which is available to podcast on iTunes and Soundcloud, they discuss the Iberian Atlantic and the War of the Spanish Succession.

War of the Spanish Succession

The Habsburg dynasty in Spain, which oversaw an unprecedented rise of Spanish power and hegemony in Europe and overseas in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, reached a dramatic end in 1700. The last Habsburg ruler, Charles II, died on November 1st, All Saints’ Day, of that year, without a direct descendant. This precipitated a political crisis, which led to a war of succession involving virtually every major western European power. The conflict, which we know as the War of the Spanish Succession, ended with the accession of a French Bourbon prince, Philip of Anjou, grandson of Louis XIV of France. Philip of Anjou, who became known as Philip V of Spain, was the first of the Spanish Bourbon monarchs. This dynastic shift had profound implications in Spain, Europe and the Americas.

While the War of the Spanish Succession has generally been analysed from a European perspective, there were in fact other elements, which allude to several crucial points regarding the War outside of Europe. In the podcast Dr Collins and Professor Olivas discuss the importance of the Iberian Atlantic in understanding the War of the Spanish Succession.

‘The Iberian Atlantic and the War of the Spanish Succession, 1700-1715′ with Professor Aaron Alejandro Olivas (Texas A&M).

Kingdom, Empire and Plus Ultra

This History Hub podcast series features interviews with experts in the areas of Portuguese and Spanish history, from the beginning of the Portuguese discoveries in 1415 to the end of Spanish dominion in America in 1898. The interviews, conducted by historian Dr. Edward Collins, cover a range of topics on the domestic and overseas histories of both nations, which include, among others: the Portuguese explorations of Africa and Asia, Spanish navigation and settlement in America, the church in Portugal and Spain, monarchy and intermarriage in the Iberian kingdoms, natural science and mapping in America, the role of nautical science, Irish historical relations with Portugal and Spain, and imperial competition in Europe and overseas. The interviewees comprise a number of established and renowned academics, as well as up-and-coming researchers from universities and institutions worldwide.

This History Hub series is funded by UCD Seed Funding and supported by UCD School of History. Series editor is Mike Liffey (Real Smart Media).

Download series episodes on iTunes or listen via Soundcloud.

Episodes

Image: detail from Philip V defeating the Heresy, National Heritage, Monastery of El Escorial by Felipe de Silva, 1712. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

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Podcasts from 2017 Tudor and Stuart Ireland

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The seventh Tudor & Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference was held at the Moore Institute at the National University of Ireland, Galway on 18-19 August 2017. The conference featured over thirty speakers from Ireland and beyond, a special panel session on ‘Visualising Early Modern Ireland’, and plenary addresses by Professor Chris Maginn (Fordham University) and Professor Patricia Palmer (Maynooth University).

The conference was organised by Evan Bourke (NUI Galway), Ioanna Kyvernitou (NUI Galway), Raina Howe (NUI Galway) and Matthew McGinty (NUI Galway) and was generously supported by the College of Arts, NUI Galway, the School of Humanities, NUI Galway, the Moore Institute, NUI Galway, the Discipline of English, NUI Galway, the Discipline of History, NUI Galway, Marsh’s Library and the Women’s History Association of Ireland.

The 2017 conference saw History Hub continue its successful partnership with Tudor and Stuart Ireland with the production of podcasts of conference proceedings. These podcasts, recorded and produced by Real Smart Media, are now available on iTunes and Soundcloud and have been added to the substantial archive of podcasts from previous Tudor and Stuart Ireland conferences.

Tudor and Stuart Ireland podcasts are available for download from iTunes and to stream on Soundcloud totally free of charge. There are now more than 180 episodes available in total and the podcasts have proved to be tremendously popular with 65,000 podcast downloads/plays to date.

2017 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference Podcasts

List of podcasts from the 2017 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference

Plenaries:

Professor Chris Maginn (Fordham) – Communicating Tudor Rule in Ireland

Professor Patricia Palmer (Maynooth) - Irish Country-House Poetry in the early modern period: a neglected genre?

Special Panel Session: Visualising Early Modern Ireland:

Assoc. Prof. Tom Herron (East Carolina) – Kilcolman Castle and the Centering Spenser website: new developments

Damian Shiels - The Irish Battlefields Project

Papers:

Dr John Cunningham (QUB) - An after game at Irish: Clement Walker and the Conquest of Ireland in 1649

Dr Jason McElligott (Marsh’s Library) - William Hone and the Rye House Plot of 1683

Matthew McGinty (NUI Galway) – ‘You know the nature of the Irish, how easily they are divided’: Tanistry, primogeniture and divided clans

Lorna Moloney (NUI Galway) - Securing Thomond – The Impact of Surrender and Regrant on Gaelic Lordship 1536-1569

Alan Kelly (TCD) - The ‘Tudor Columba’ of Manus O’Donnell, c.1532

Dr David Heffernan (QUB) - The development of the Ulster Plantation in early Stuart Donegal, c. 1609-41

Dr Gerard Farrell (TCD) - The distribution of land between native Irish and servitors in the Ulster plantation

Patrick Hayes (TCD) - Hazards to Marine Activity: Extreme Weather and Piracy in Irish and Adjacent Waters, 1535-1660

Deirdre Fennell (NUI Galway) - The desperate, the doubtful and the sperate’: John Symcott and attempts at Irish Exchequer reform, 1570-1575

Dr Gerald Power (Metropolitan University, Prague) - Aliens in Sixteenth-Century Ireland

Dr Dianne Hall (Victoria) - Women and sieges in 17th century Ireland

Dr Naomi McAreavey (UCD) - ‘The noblest person, The wisest female, and the best of wives that Ever lived’: The Duchess of Ormonde and her Letters

Dr Eugene Coyle (Oxford) - Sir William Aston and the Witch of Youghal

Therese Hicks - The Kennedys of Mount Kennedy

Stuart Keogh - Slow Rise, Sudden Fall: The chequered career of James Malone, King’s Printer to James II

Dr Fiona Pogson (Liverpool Hope) - Elizabeth Wentworth, countess of Strafford, and her role in the vice-regal household

Evan Bourke (NUI Galway) - “What I know of Buttler’s Story … is this”: Lady Ranelagh’s Transmutation History

Dr Karen Holland (Providence) - Finding Her Voice: Joan Fitzgerald’s Petition Letters to William Cecil

Prof Steven Ellis (NUI Galway) - Defending the English Pale: the Viceroyalty of Richard Nugent, 3rd Baron of Delvin

Dr John Cronin (IAPH) - Dónal Cam O’Sullivan Beare and the first battle of Aughrim, 1603

Diarmuid Wheeler (NUI Galway) - Warham St. Leger, Francis Rush and the Nine Years’ War in the Queen’s County

Dr Keith Smith (Discovery Programme) - Lost But Not Forgotten: Altar Plate in the Inventories of Kilconnell Franciscan Friary

Dr Yvonne McDermott (GMIT) - The fate of Moyne friary: History and architecture in the early modern period

Dr Benjamin Hazard (UCD) - Irish Franciscans of the Santiago Province in Spain

Prof Raymond Pierre Hylton (Virginia) - Women and Family in Ireland’s Huguenot Refuge: Paradigms and Comparisons

Kieran Hoare (NUI Galway) - UCG, GAHS and Early Modern Ireland

Dr Philip Walsh (UCD) - The expulsion and re-establishment of Catholic merchants in Galway town during the Interregnum and Restoration

Ultan Lally (NUI Galway) - Seventeenth century Dominican Connacht: the medieval heritage of the Order of Preachers and the Counter-Reformation in the west

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Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference Podcasts

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The Tudor and Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference was founded by Suzanne Forbes, Neil Johnston, and Eoin Kinsella in UCD in 2011 and Tudor and Stuart Ireland conferences have taken place each year since: in University College Dublin in 2012 and 2013; in Maynooth University in 2014 and 2015; and in NUI Galway in 2016 and 2017.

The 7th annual Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference took place at the Moore Institute, NUI Galway in August 2017. It was organised by Evan Bourke (English, NUI Galway), Raina Howe (History, NUI Galway), Ioanna Kyvernitou (English, NUI Galway) and Matt McGinty (History, NUI Galway).

Since 2011, more than 200 speakers from a range of disciplines including History, English, Archaeology and Art History, have presented papers at Tudor and Stuart Ireland conferences. History Hub, in association with Real Smart Media, has produced more than 180 podcasts from these conferences.

The podcasts are available for download from iTunes and to stream on Soundcloud totally free of charge – there have been more than 65,000 podcast downloads/plays to date. The complete list of podcasts is below.

Click on the links below to access the archive. Please like and share the podcasts.

Podcasts from 2017 Tudor and Stuart Ireland.
Podcasts from 2016 Tudor and Stuart Ireland.
Podcasts from 2015 Tudor and Stuart Ireland.
Podcasts from 2014 Tudor and Stuart Ireland.
Podcasts from 2012 Tudor and Stuart Ireland.
Podcasts from 2011 Tudor and Stuart Ireland.

2017 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference Podcasts

List of podcasts from the 2017 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference

Plenaries:

Professor Chris Maginn (Fordham) – Communicating Tudor Rule in Ireland

Professor Patricia Palmer (Maynooth) - Irish Country-House Poetry in the early modern period: a neglected genre?

Special Panel Session: Visualising Early Modern Ireland:

Assoc. Prof. Tom Herron (East Carolina) – Kilcolman Castle and the Centering Spenser website: new developments

Damian Shiels - The Irish Battlefields Project

Papers:

Dr John Cunningham (QUB) - An after game at Irish: Clement Walker and the Conquest of Ireland in 1649

Dr Jason McElligott (Marsh’s Library) - William Hone and the Rye House Plot of 1683

Matthew McGinty (NUI Galway) – ‘You know the nature of the Irish, how easily they are divided’: Tanistry, primogeniture and divided clans

Lorna Moloney (NUI Galway) - Securing Thomond – The Impact of Surrender and Regrant on Gaelic Lordship 1536-1569

Alan Kelly (TCD) - The ‘Tudor Columba’ of Manus O’Donnell, c.1532

Dr David Heffernan (QUB) - The development of the Ulster Plantation in early Stuart Donegal, c. 1609-41

Dr Gerard Farrell (TCD) - The distribution of land between native Irish and servitors in the Ulster plantation

Patrick Hayes (TCD) - Hazards to Marine Activity: Extreme Weather and Piracy in Irish and Adjacent Waters, 1535-1660

Deirdre Fennell (NUI Galway) - The desperate, the doubtful and the sperate’: John Symcott and attempts at Irish Exchequer reform, 1570-1575

Dr Gerald Power (Metropolitan University, Prague) - Aliens in Sixteenth-Century Ireland

Dr Dianne Hall (Victoria) - Women and sieges in 17th century Ireland

Dr Naomi McAreavey (UCD) - ‘The noblest person, The wisest female, and the best of wives that Ever lived’: The Duchess of Ormonde and her Letters

Dr Eugene Coyle (Oxford) - Sir William Aston and the Witch of Youghal

Therese Hicks - The Kennedys of Mount Kennedy

Stuart Keogh - Slow Rise, Sudden Fall: The chequered career of James Malone, King’s Printer to James II

Dr Fiona Pogson (Liverpool Hope) - Elizabeth Wentworth, countess of Strafford, and her role in the vice-regal household

Evan Bourke (NUI Galway) - “What I know of Buttler’s Story … is this”: Lady Ranelagh’s Transmutation History

Dr Karen Holland (Providence) - Finding Her Voice: Joan Fitzgerald’s Petition Letters to William Cecil

Prof Steven Ellis (NUI Galway) - Defending the English Pale: the Viceroyalty of Richard Nugent, 3rd Baron of Delvin

Dr John Cronin (IAPH) - Dónal Cam O’Sullivan Beare and the first battle of Aughrim, 1603

Diarmuid Wheeler (NUI Galway) - Warham St. Leger, Francis Rush and the Nine Years’ War in the Queen’s County

Dr Keith Smith (Discovery Programme) - Lost But Not Forgotten: Altar Plate in the Inventories of Kilconnell Franciscan Friary

Dr Yvonne McDermott (GMIT) - The fate of Moyne friary: History and architecture in the early modern period

Dr Benjamin Hazard (UCD) - Irish Franciscans of the Santiago Province in Spain

Prof Raymond Pierre Hylton (Virginia) - Women and Family in Ireland’s Huguenot Refuge: Paradigms and Comparisons

Kieran Hoare (NUI Galway) - UCG, GAHS and Early Modern Ireland

Dr Philip Walsh (UCD) - The expulsion and re-establishment of Catholic merchants in Galway town during the Interregnum and Restoration

Ultan Lally (NUI Galway) - Seventeenth century Dominican Connacht: the medieval heritage of the Order of Preachers and the Counter-Reformation in the west

2016 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference Podcasts

List of podcasts from the 2016 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference

Plenaries:

Professor Mary O’Dowd (Queen’s University Belfast) – Age as a category of analysis: an agenda for early modern Ireland?

Professor Andrew Hadfield (Sussex) - Edmund Spencer the Less among the Jacobites

Special Panel Session: Shakespeare and Ireland
Dr Naomi McAreavey (UCD) – Shakespeare on the seventeenth-century Irish stage.
Emer McHugh (NUIG) – Performing Shakespeare in Ireland in 2016: Othello at the Abbey.

Panel in honour of Professor Steven Ellis
Kieran Hoare (NUIG) - From O’Sasnane to Sexton: the making of an early modern urban patriciate family.
Gerald Power (Metropolitan University, Prague) - ‘An English gentleman and his community: Sir William Brabazon and the formation of the “New English”’.

Papers:

Prof. Steven Ellis (NUIG) - Reforming sacred space: the Collegiate church of St Nicholas, Galway and the Reformation

Dr Yvonne McDermott (GMIT) - Galway Augustinian friary: from foundation to demolition

Prof. Colm Lennon (MU) - Corporate clergy and lay society: collegiate churches in early modern Ireland

Alan Kelly (TCD) - ‘For the herbes dyd never growe’: The State of Ireland (1515), political discourse and literary conceit

Bobby O’Brien (NUIG) - The presence and impact of Bishop John Bale in the Diocese of Ossory

Dr Bríd McGrath (TCD) - Unmasking E.S., the author of A Survey of the Present Estate of Ireland Anno 1615

John Kelly - The exactions of a ‘minor demon’ or the ‘service of a faithful countryman’? Collection of cess, pardons and fines by Robert Hartpole, Constable of Carlow, between 1569 and 1571.

Dr David Heffernan (UCC) - The “composition for cess” controversy and the position of the Old English in mid Elizabethan Ireland, c.1575-84

Dimitra Koutla (Aristotle) - “It lacketh only inhabitants, manurance, and pollicie”: agrarian capitalism and social control in Sir Thomas Smith’s “A Letter sent by IB gentleman”

Kelly Duquette (Boston) - Shakespeare’s “uncivil kerns:” Irish contagion and the emerging British nation-state

Alix Chartrand (Cambridge) - Tories and thugs: the impact of seventeenth-century struggles against Irish banditry on India

Deirdre Fennell (NUIG) - Family, favour, faction: female presence in the life of Lord Deputy Sir William Fitzwilliam

Ann-Maria Walsh (UCD) - Countess Alice Barrymore, motherhood, shopping, and the commodification of English civility

Dr Felicity Maxwell (NUIG) - Dorothy Moore’s Irish connections: Protestant networking and social critique in the 1640s

Dr Brian MacCuarta (ARSI) - The Impact of the Nine Years War on the continental Irish: Henry Piers in Rome and Spain

Prof. John McCafferty (UCD) - Recycling an island’s past for a Global Catholicism: Irish Franciscans in the seventeenth century

Prof. Raymond Hylton (Virginia Union) - Religio-political ferment in, and interconnections between the Dublin and Portarlington Huguenot communities, 1692-1720: a study in causal determinism?

Evan Bourke (NUIG) - ‘The incomparable Lady Ranelagh’: Katherine Jones’s reputation within Samuel Hartlib’s correspondence network

Prof. Willy Maley (Glasgow) - Double Dutch: The Boate brothers and Ireland

Dr Marc Caball (UCD) - Crossing borders in late Stuart Ireland: the emergence of a middle ground

David Roy (UCC) - Creating borders in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe

Raina Howe (NUIG) - Tudor Wasteland or Gaelic Fásach? Historical perspectives of an early modern Irish environment

Lorna Moloney (NUIG) - From Gaelic lordship to English shire: The MacNamaras of Clare

Rebecca Hasler (St Andrews) - ‘Neither to forbeare Irish nor English’: Barnaby Rich’s Anglo-Irish pamphleteering

Dr Helen Sonner - The Ulster pamphlets of James VI/I reconsidered

Prof. Caroline Newcombe (Southwestern) - How early Irish marital property law influenced the end of Brehon Law

Diarmuid Wheeler (NUIG) - “When the blast of war blows in our ears”: Military men in Leix and Offaly, c.1547-1580

Matthew McGinty (NUIG) - The rise and fall of Sir Conyers Clifford

Prof. Yoko Odawara (Chukyo University) - Sir Philip Sidney, Leicester circle and Ireland

Dr Coleman Dennehy (UCD / UCL) - Lawyers in parliament: examining legal counsel on Irish cases at the Westminster Parliament.

Dr Eoin Kinsella (IAPH) - Irish Catholic lobbying in London in the 1690s

Dr John Bergin (QUB) - The career of Dennis Molony (1650-1726), an Irish Catholic lawyer and agent in London

Dr Jason McElligott (Marsh’s Library) - Early modern female book owners: the evidence from Ireland’s first public library

Dr John Cunningham (QUB) - The apothecary in early modern Ireland

2015 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference Podcasts

List of podcasts from the 2015 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference

Plenaries:

Professor Alexandra Walsham (Cambridge) – The Pope’s merchandise and the Jesuits’ trumpery: Catholic relics and Protestant polemic in early modern Britain.

Video of Professor Alexandra Walsham’s plenary.

Professor Marie-Louise Coolahan (NUI Galway) - Reportage, rhyme, and religion:
How to drum up a reputation in early modern Ireland.

Video of Professor Marie-Louise Coolahan’s plenary.

Public Engagement Panel Session
Dr Brendan Kane (University of Connecticut), Dr Jason McElligott (Marsh’s Library) and Mike Liffey (History Hub / Real Smart Media).

Papers:

Prof. John McCafferty (UCD) - A habit of return: Irish Franciscans friaries 1539-1650.

Dr Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin (UCD) - The biography of Bishop Francis Kirwan: Pii antistitis icon sive de vita et morte D. Francisci Kirovani Rmi. Alladensis Episcopi.

Dr Brendan Scott (Ind.) - Thomas Jones, Elizabethan bishop of Meath.

Dr John Jeremiah Cronin (Ind.) – Intrigue in the exiled Carolean Court: the case of George Radcliff.

Richard Maher (DIT) – The viper in the bosom: the case of James Murray and his undermining of Charles Wogan in the Jacobite court in Rome, June 1719.

Dr David Heffernan (UCC) - Planting Elizabethan Ulster: the Earl of Essex’s ‘Enterprise’ of Ulster 1573-1575.

Edward Cavanagh (Ottawa/Cambridge) – Corporations, property rights, and the imperial constitution: a comparative reflection on the Honourable Irish Society in law and history.

Prof. Tomas O’Connor (MU) – Heresy, conversion and reconversion in the sixteenth-century Irish diaspora.

Dr Pádraig Lenihan (NUIG) – The Wild Geese 1690-97: fact or fantasy?

Prof. Marian Lyons (MU) – James II and Mary of Modena’s provision for Irish Jacobites in France, c.1692-1718.

Éilis Noonan (St Andrews) – Women and violence in the 1641 Rising.

Dr Jason McElligott (Marsh’s Library) – Bram Stoker and the undead history of Williamite Ireland.

Paul Murray (Ind.) – Puritanism and the formation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

Diarmuid Wheeler (NUIG) – Tudor policy in the midland territories of Laois and Offaly, c.1530-1603.

Jennifer Wells (Brown) – ‘The Irish Modell’: Building empire in seventeenth-century Jamaica.

Prof. Raymond Pierre Hylton (Virginia Union) & Dr Marie Léoutre (Marsh’s Library). The mercantile element in Dublin’s Huguenot refuge and its catalytic effect, 1650-1750.

Dr Marc Caball (UCD) – A tale of two seventeenth-century libraries: the books and world views of a Limerick patrician and a Cork landowner.

Liam Maloney (UCD) – The Earl of Orrery and the defense of the Protestant interest in the settlement of Ireland.

Brian Coleman (TCD) – The gentry of Tudor Ireland.

Dr Karen Holland (Providence College) – Insuring Irish patrimonies: Catherine Power and Joan Fitzgerald in their sons’ non-age.

Philip Walsh (UCD) – ‘…the tyrannical usage and uncharitable proceedings’ of Martin Blake Fitz Andrew (c.1620-1691): the career of an internal transplanter from Galway town to County Galway and the establishment of the Ballyglunin estate.

Lenore Fischer (Ind.) – Finn MacCool among the Old English.

Carla Lessing (NUIG) – ‘Wild Irish’ and ‘Miserable Finns’: sixteenth- and seventeenth-century perceptions of the inhabitants of Ireland and Finland in comparison.

2014 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference Podcasts

List of podcasts from the 2014 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference

Plenaries:

Professor Alan Ford (Nottingham) – ‘Love God and hate the Pope’: (un)changing Protestant attitudes towards Catholicism 1600-2000.

Professor John McCafferty (UCD) - A single witness: Ireland and Europe through the eyes of a small man with a big nose.

Papers:

Simon Egan (University College Cork) - The MacSweny lordship of Fanad in the later fifteenth century.

Janet McGrory (University of Ulster) - Sir Arthur Chichester; an Elizabethan planter in a Stuart kingdom.

Dearbháile McCloskey Hutchinson (University of Ulster) - Tristram Beresford and the plantation of Ulster.

Jessica Cunningham (NUI Maynooth) - ‘the fashion and price I will wait upon your lordship for direction’: the acquisition of domestic silver in early-seventeenth century Ireland.

Prof. Colm Lennon (Professor Emeritus, NUI Maynooth) - Protestant-Catholic relations in seventeenth century Ireland: a case study of St Audoen’s parish, Dublin.

Dr James O’Neill - Speedy swords? Violence and restraint during the Nine Years War, 1593-1603.

Prof. Raymond Pierre Hylton (Virginia Union University) and Dr Marie Leoutre (National Library of Ireland) - Exile to integration: Dublin as a paradigm for the Huguenots experience in Ireland.

Frances Nolan University College Dublin - The ‘Jacobite woman’: female ‘outlaws’ after the Williamite-Jacobite war.

Prof. Raymond Gillespie (NUI, Maynooth) - For the honour of the city: The town hall in early modern Ireland.

Anthony Hughes (NUI, Maynooth) – The Stuart post office in Ireland: not just for delivering letters.

Dr John Cunningham (Trinity College Dublin / University of Exeter) - The medical world of early modern Ireland.

J. Stuart Keogh (University of Dundee) - French silver, Jacobite pen? Propaganda from Dublin, 1689-90.

Joe Lines (Queen’s University Belfast) - Irish nationality in the criminal biography, 1660-1700

Damian Duffy (NUI, Maynooth) - ‘ …a lady of suche port, that all estates of the realme crouched unto her’: Margaret Fitzgerald, countess of Ormond.

Dr Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin (University College Dublin) - Early modern Catholicism in the northern Netherlands, England and Ireland: some points of comparison and contrast.

Dr Áine Hensey – ‘…compelled to subsist on herbs and water’: The prisoner priests of Bofin and Inis Mór, 1657-62.

Mr Martin Foerster (University of Hamburg) - So poor but yet so rich: Jesuit finances in Restoration Ireland.

James Sheridan (Trinity College Dublin) - An elusive settlement: the negotiations of Lord Deputy Sir Henry Sidney and Turlough Luineach O’Neill, 1575-1579.

Dr Karen Holland (Providence College) - Insuring the quiet of the country: Elizabeth I and Joan Fitzgerald, Countess of Desmond.

Declan Mills (University of Limerick) - Elizabethan Ireland: the graveyard of ambition or land of political opportunity.

Dr John Jeremiah Cronin - The Irish Battlefields Project’s survey of the battle sites of the Confederate Wars: an illustrative analysis of four battlefields.

Dr Ciska Neyts (Hertford College, Oxford University) - Continental influences on confederate warfare (1641-9)

Jennifer Wells (Brown University/Institute of Historical Research) - ‘Spanish wine bee better than French’: Continental Realpolitik and its imperial resonance, 1649-92.

Dr David Heffernan (University College Cork) - Political discourse in early sixteenth century Ireland, c. 1515-1558: A re-evaluation.

Dr Mark Hutchinson (University of Göttingen) - Inverting Resistance Theory and the state in Elizabethan Ireland.

Jeffrey Cox (University College Dublin) - If you build it, will they come? Parish churches, the state and religious change,c. 1560-1630: a case study of County Kildare.

2012 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference Podcasts

List of podcasts from the 2012 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference

Plenary:

Professor John Patrick Montaño (University of Delaware) - Humiliation, destruction and death: Violence and cultural difference in Tudor and Stuart Ireland.

Papers:

Dr Marie Louise Coolahan (NUIG). Biographical sources for the study of early modern Irish women.

Jess Velona (Adj. Prof., Columbia Law School). Sir Audley Mervyns speech demanding reforms in the Court of Claims – A reinterpretation through the lens of legal history

Mairtín Dalton. Leix and Offaly – The proving ground of plantation.

Dr John Bergin. Adam Colclough – Lawyer, landowner, officeholder, investor, Catholic agent and Jacobite plotter.

Dr Neil Johnston. From the ‘Humble Desires’ to the Act of Settlement – Restoration politics, 1660-1662.

Frances Nolan (UCD). ‘[T]he worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experience – by experience’, A consideration of female claimants at Chichester House, 1700 to 1703.

Dr Veronica Hendrick. Testimony of an Irish slave girl: Indentured servants and the influence of Cromwell.

Dr Sparky Booker. Sumptuary law in Tudor Ireland in its European context.

David Heffernan. The emergence of the public sphere in Elizabethan Ireland.

Dr Benjamin Hazard. Combat medics and military medicine: Irish experience.

Dr Mark Hutchinson. Governing in a state of grace. Reformed theology and statist thought.

Dr Marie Leoutre (UCD). The Huguenots and the Williamite Government.

Andrew Robinson. Sir John Clotworthy and the destruction of Peter Paul Rubens Crucifixion.

Dr Julie Eckerle. Re-contextualizing Englishwomens life writing.

Bronagh McShane. Representations of violence against women in 1641 rebellion literature.

Dr Eoin Kinsella (UCD). The ‘dastard gentry’ of Ireland: Aspects of Irish Jacobitism during the 1690s.

Simon Egan. The politics of the wider Gaelic world and the collapse of the MacDonald Lordship of the Isles, c.1460 to 1500.

Dr Marc Caball (UCD). Cultural mixing in early modern Ireland.

Dr Matthew Potter. James Is forty chartered towns of 1613.

Paul Rondelez. Native iron mining and smelting in Ireland, c.1560 to c.1640.

Francis Kelly (UCC). Brian O Rourke and the Spanish Armada.

Dr John Cunningham (TCD/Freiburg). Divided conquerors – martial law and the politics of conquest in Ireland, 1649 to 1653.

Dr Jill Connaughton. The art of a ‘Good Death’.

James O Neill (QUB). Half-moons and villainous work – Gaelic fortifications and the Nine Years War.

John O Halloran (UCD). ‘By their fruits shall ye know them’ – A re-appraisal of the Marian bishops who conformed to the Elizabethan church settlement.

Dr John Cronin. Violence and duelling between exiled courtiers – the case of the Caroline Court in exile, c.1649 to c.1660.

2011 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference Podcasts

List of podcasts from the 2011 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference

Plenary:

Professor Marian Lyons (NUI Maynooth). The Variegated Irishness of the Irish in seventeenth-century Europe.

Papers:

Professor Steven Ellis (NUIG). Economic upswing in early Tudor Meath – civility and prosperity.

Professor James McGuire. The composition and representative character of the 1689 parliament.

Dr Gerald Power. Under mighty subjects – the lesser nobility of the English Pale, 1534 to 1566.

Eoin Kinsella (UCD). Colonel John Browne – Jacobite lawyer, soldier and entrepreneur.

Neil Johnston. The Restoration Land Settlement in microcosm – the Southwells of Kinsale and the Court of Claims.

Dr Tadhg O hAnnracháin (UCD). Violating and restoring the identity of the dead – Politics and dead bodies in the Aphorismical Discovery of Treasonable Faction.

Dr Patrick Walsh (TCD). Was St Patrick a Presbyterian. History, tradition and identity in Andrew Stewarts A Short Account of the Church of Christ in Ireland.

Joe Nunan (UCC). An archaeology of the Munster Plantation 1580 to 1641 (Podcast correction – The first slitting mill constructed and working in the English Midlands (not England) c.1623.

Dr Aoife Duignan – Clanricarde and the Royalist Cause in Connacht.

Dr Mairin Ni Cheallaigh. Divers good plottes devised – urban gardens in seventeenth-century Ireland.

Dr John Bergin. The legislative work of James II’s Irish parliament of 1689.

Hilary Bishop (University of Liverpool). Mass Rocks – Penal Law necessity or Reformation possibility.

Dr David Coleman (Nottingham Trent University). From Tudor to Stuart – Sir John Davies and Ulster.

Dr John Cronin. The Marchioness of Ormonds Return from Exile and the Butler Patrimony.

Dr John Cunningham (TCD/Freiburg) Bohemia and Ireland in the seventeenth century – Comparable histories.

Evelien Schillern (UCD). The European Context of the Williamite War in Ireland, 1689 to 1691.

Andrew Robinson (UU). New English Identity, providence, and the 1641 rising.

Ruth Canning (UCC). An Old English Pale merchant and Elizabeths Great Irish Rebellion.

Dr Linda Doran (UCD). New Ross corporation books – the picture of a small town.

Dr Declan Downey (UCD). The Sov’reign of our liking – lineage, legitimacy and liege-men – The Irish Catholic nobilities and the Spanish Habsburg Monarchy circa 1529 to 1651.

Conall MacAongusa. Thomond in a European context – the Ui Bhriain Dynasty, 1450 to 1580.

David Heffernan (UCC). The campaign for the Reduction of Leinster in post-Kildare rebellion Ireland.

Dr Emma Lyons (UCD). Letters patent and the court of claims. The experience of Lattins, 1640s to 1660.

Ainé Hensey. An Illegal Profession – the formation of a corporate identity for Roman Catholic priests in south-east Ireland between 1560 and 1641.

Stephen Kelly (UCD). This Shining Circle – Castle and playhouse in Restoration Dublin.

James O’Neill (QUB). Trailing pikes and turning kern – military acculturation in the Nine Years War.

Kieran Hoare (NUIG). The development of a merchant oligarchy in the town of Galway, 1485 to 1534.

Teresa Shoosmith (NUIG). Stone, mud and straw – landscape, people and material culture in east Clare, 1670 to 1750.

Gertie Keane. Great Stone Houses. Kilkenny and its early modern townhouses, 1550 to 1650.

For more information on the conference go to tudorstuartireland.com

Image: Detail from ‘Sir Henry Sidney, Lord-Deputy, accompanied by an armed force, sets out from Dublin Castle for a progress through Ireland’. A plate originally from The Image of Irelande, by John Derrick, published in 1581. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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James Belich – An Approach to Global History

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James Belich is one of New Zealand’s foremost historians. He is currently based at Oxford where he is Beit Professor of Imperial and Commonwealth History.

His early work examined the history of New Zealand in a global context. His books include a two-volume history of New Zealand, Making Peoples (1996) and Paradise Reforged (2001), as well as the bestselling The New Zealand Wars (1986), which won a New Zealand Book Award, the Trevor Reese Memorial Prize, and became a television documentary series.

More recently, Belich has turned to the comparative history of settler societies and their relations with indigenous peoples, an interest which produced Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo-world. Published in 2011 this work has been described as “astonishing” (History Today), “exhilarating and provocative reading” (IHR) and “original and intelligent” (Times Higher Education Supplement).

SouthHem

In May 2017 Professor Belich visited University College Dublin where he gave a lecture as part of the SouthHem seminar series. Funded by the European Research Council and based at UCD, SouthHem is a five-year (2016-2021) comparative study of the wide range of literary outputs and mediating institutions produced in the Southern Hemisphere and Straits Settlements from 1780-1870.

Professor Belich’s lecture - Connectivity, Globalisation, and Divergence over Five Millennia: An Approach to Global History - was recorded and is now available as a podcast on History Hub. The lecture was introduced by Assoc. Prof. William Mulligan from UCD School of History.

Click here for more information on future SouthHem events.

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Barbara E. Mundy – Tenochtitlan: Transformation & Endurance after the Spanish Conquest

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Professor Barbara E. Mundy is Chair and Professor of Art History at Fordham University in New York. She specialises in Latin American art with an emphasis on indigenous art and cartography in the 16th century.

Her first book, The Mapping of New Spain: Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geográficas (1996) was winner of the 1996 Nebenzahl Prize in the History of Cartography.

In 2012, she co-edited a volume with Mary E. Miller, Painting a Map of Sixteenth-Century Mexico City: Land, Writing and Native Rule (Yale/Beinecke Library, 2012), which sheds light on a rare map of Mexico City, and includes the most extensive scientific analysis of any New World manuscript to date.

Her latest book, The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City (2015), centres on Tenochtitlan-Mexico City and its transformation from the sacred capital of the Aztecs into the centre of Spain’s overseas empire. It was winner of the 2015 Arvey Award from the Association of Latin American Art for the year’s best book on Latin American art history, and received the Latin American Studies Association Book Award (Colonial section). It received the 2017 Bryce Wood Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association.

Professor Mundy’s interest in digital humanities has resulted in a pioneering work, Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520-1820, that was co-authored with Dana Leibsohn and funded by an N.E.H. digital development and demonstration grant. The project is accessible online www.fordham.edu/vistas.

In episode 12 of History Hub’s podcast series – ‘Kingdom, Empire and Plus Ultra: conversations on the history of Portugal and Spain, 1415-1898‘ – Professor Mundy is in conversation with series host Dr Edward Collins. In the episode, which is available to podcast on iTunes and Soundcloud, they discuss the overthrow of the great Aztec city of Tenochtitlan in 1521.

To Spanish conquerors, this city, built on Lake Texcoco in the Valley of Mexico, was unlike anything they had ever seen when they first encountered it in 1519. Yet, just two years later, the Aztec capital had fallen to Spanish forces and was in ruins, and its leaders dead or imprisoned. But did the city really die? Was it buried and reimagined as the new Spanish colonial city of Mexico?

‘Tenochtitlan: Transformation & Endurance after the Spanish Conquest’ with Professor Barbara E. Mundy (Fordham University).

View accompanying slides of relevant images and maps

Kingdom, Empire and Plus Ultra

This History Hub series is funded by UCD Seed Funding and supported by UCD School of History. Series editor is Mike Liffey (Real Smart Media).

Download series episodes on iTunes or listen via Soundcloud.

Episodes

Image: detail from Folio 2r of the Codex Mendoza, a mid-16th century Aztec codex. Depicts the founding of Tenochtitlan, and the conquest of Colhuacan and Tenayucan. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

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Lifelong Learning at the NLI

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Lifelong Learning at the National Library of Ireland

UCD Lifelong Learning courses are part-time specific interest courses that are participative, engaging and facilitated by experts in their field. The courses are open to all and provide a chance to explore a subject without concerns about assessment. These courses are part of a long tradition in University College Dublin, and follow the legacy of the university’s founder Cardinal John Henry Newman.

This year UCD continues its partnership with the National Library of Ireland by offering a number of history courses as part of the Lifelong Learning programme. The history courses running in the NLI in 2017/2018 are:

Autumn 2017

Spring 2018

Semester 1 Modules (beginning Autumn 2017)

AE-HN135- From Bad News to Fake News: media and conflict 1850-2017 (Tutor: Dr Myles Dungan, starts 4 Oct)

An exploration of the relationship between political journalism and establishment interests in the English-speaking world from the mid nineteenth century to the present day, with an emphasis on Irish journalistic input.

Since the gradual elimination of political censorship and journalistic controls in Britain in the 1840s – a form of repression less familiar in the USA – the relationship of the press with the dominant political, social, economic and financial powers in the English-speaking world has often been problematic. From the game-changing reports of Irish-born William Howard Russell of The Times in the 1850s (on the incompetence of the British military elite in the Crimea) to the investigative reporting of the Washington Post which undermined the Nixon administration in the 1970s, newspapers, radio and TV have sought to expose corruption, highlight abuse of power and challenge restrictive libel laws – another form of repression less familiar in the USA. In tackling institutional, commercial and governmental excess, as well as outright criminality, many campaigning newspapers have honoured the injunction of the great Irish-American Chicago columnist Finley Peter Dunne ‘to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable’. This course reflects on some of the more interesting examples of this conflict, and where appropriate, seeks to highlight a significant Irish involvement in the history of campaigning journalism.

This course will take place over 8 Wednesdays 10.30am-1.00pm at the NLI.
Oct 4, 18, 25, Nov 1, 8, 15, 22, 29. Fee: €195
Book your place here.

AE-HN138 - Latin America and the Irish Diaspora (Tutor: Dr Edward Collins, starts 12 Oct)

There are an estimated 80 million people worldwide who claim some form of Irish descent. While much work has been done to assess Irish immigration and its historical impact, much of this has focused on immigration to North America, Britain, and Australia. Comparatively, the importance of Irish immigration to Latin America has been overlooked.

This course addresses this historiographically understudied subject by examining the relationship between Ireland and Latin America, from the earliest discoveries in the New World to the present. It focuses on Irish immigration to Spanish and Portuguese territories, and considers the extent to which these immigrants shaped politics, society and culture, from Mexico to Patagonia. It examines their role in colonial and frontier society, the Latin American Wars of Independence and revolution, and assesses how Irish immigration has shaped the modern Latin American republics.

It will study, among others, various aspects of Irish participation in navigation, trade, labour, slavery, war, and religion.

Prior knowledge of this topic, or of Latin American history, is not required for participation. In addition to the role and influence of the Irish, this course will provide the necessary background information on the history of Portuguese and Spanish exploration and settlement in America in each lecture, as well as the development of distinct colonial Latin American societies, and their emergence as independent, modern political entities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This course will take place over 8 Thursdays 2.00-4.30pm at the NLI.
Oct 12, 19, Nov 2, 9, 16, 23, Dec 7, 14
Book your place here.

Semester 2 Modules (Spring 2018)

AE-HN231 - Land Wars in Ireland 1876-1909 (Tutor: Dr Brian Casey, starts 10 Jan)

This course explores the background and various stages of the Land Wars from 1876 to 1909. It explores the pre-Land War milieu, its various phases over a thirty year period and how the countryside was mobilised during this formative period as the strong farmers and shopkeepers consolidated their influence in the countryside, with the labourer, town tenant and small farmer losing out. In addition, it explores the role that local activists as well as people like Michael Davitt and Charles Stewart Parnell played in the mobilization of the countryside to demand peasant proprietorship and the end of landlordism in Ireland.

This course will take place over 8 Wednesday mornings: 10.30-1.00pm
Jan 10, 17, 24, 31, Feb 7, 14, 21, 28. Fee: €195
Book your place here.

AE-HN287 - Medieval Journeys: Travel and Pilgrimage (Tutor: Dr Nathan Millin, starts 7 Mar)

What was it like to be a medieval pilgrim? Where did they go? What happened on the way? Any journey to a sacred place undoubtedly held a spiritual dimension. Pilgrims bought souvenirs from continental shrines dedicated to familiar Irish saints and visited other religious sites to fulfil vows, for penance or to cure sickness. However, evidence exists of more worldly experiences as well. Roadside hostels provided rest while entertainment existed in the form of taverns and even the occasional Church-run brothel. This course explores individual pilgrim writings uncovering what motivated Irish people to travel, the routes they followed and their experiences on the road.

Medieval Christians often engaged in physical travel as a means to bringing themselves closer to God. These journeys could serve a wide variety of spiritual functions: to fulfil a vow, as a penance, to cure sickness, or simply to expand their own faith. However, at a time when few people travelled beyond their own birthplace, those who did viewed the opportunity as an adventure, a chance to see the wider world and engage in new and often very worldly experiences. Pilgrims shopped for souvenirs at the shrines of familiar Irish saints on the continent and also visited other important local sites. Hostels were established to provide rest and there was ample entertainment in the form of taverns and even the occasional Church-run brothel.

This course will investigate the mechanisms by which Irish people decided to undertake pilgrimage and travel in the middle ages. We will investigate what it was like to be a pilgrim, where they went and what happened along the way. Classes will emphasise the experiences of individual pilgrims through reading and discussion of the primary sources they produced – texts which reveal tales of piety but also adventure, vice and even murder on pilgrim trails.

Students will also be introduced to the sacred places pilgrims travelled to, both in Ireland and abroad, leading to an understanding of the medieval experience of these sites and also the development of sacred space from the pre-Christian period through to the modern revival of pilgrimage.

This course will take place over 8 Wednesday mornings: 10.30-1.00pm
Mar 7, 14, 21, 28, Apr 4, 11, 18, 25. Fee: €195
Book your place here.

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Study History at UCD

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Open and Lifelong Learning at UCD

UCD Open Learning is an innovative and unique approach to part-time study in UCD. You can choose from a wide range of undergraduate modules for either audit or credit. There are no entry requirements to the programme – you just need to find a module or modules that interest you and register!

The School of History at UCD is the perfect environment for anyone who has a love of history. The School is a vibrant, welcoming centre for the study of history. The range and stimulating nature of the curriculum covers both Irish and non-Irish history, from the dawn of the medieval era to the contemporary world in a new millennium.

UCD School of History has Open Learning places available across a wide range of courses for the 2017/2018 academic year. See below for more information on Open Learning modules.

Lifelong Learning at the NLI

UCD also offers Lifelong Learning courses in history in partnership with the National Library of Ireland. Lifelong Learning courses are part-time specific interest courses that are participative, engaging and facilitated by experts in their field. The courses are open to all and provide a chance to explore a subject without concerns about assessment. Courses for 2017/2018 include:

From Bad News to Fake News: media and conflict 1850-2017 (with Dr. Myles Dungan)
Latin America and the Irish Diaspora
Land Wars in Ireland 1876-1909
Medieval Journeys: Travel and Pilgrimage

Click here for more information on the Lifelong Learning history courses available at the NLI.

Open Learning in 2017/2018

In 2017-18, the School of History will be offering the following Open Learning modules:

Semester I (From 11 September 2017)

Semester II (January 2018)

Those who register for Open Learning modules will receive a UCD student card and have access to all UCD facilities including the James Joyce Library. For registration and fee details go to www.ucd.ie/all, call 01 716 7123 or email: adult.education@ucd.ie

Semester 1 Modules (beginning 11 September, 2017)

HIS21100 – Celtic Dawn to Celtic Tiger: A History of Ireland: Culture and Society (Audit / Credit)

History has shaped modern Irish life in ways that are many and complex. This course opens with an exploration of Irish culture and society in a new millennium. What is it about Ireland that is unique? And what is it, instead, that is part of a shared human experience that transcends borders, whether political or geographic? The course examines how millennia of history have shaped life on the island from the arrival of the first humans, through the Irish experience within the British Empire, and on to a partitioned island which is organized into two states: Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The course will also assess how Ireland has been shaped by emigration, by Famine, and by media, among other forces. Woven through the course will be an appraisal of continuity and change in political, social, economic and cultural dimensions of Irish history.

HIS20950 - Early Modern Europe 1450-1800 (Audit / Credit)

Western Civilization in the present day has its roots in the re-discovery of Classical Civilization and Humanism and in the discovery of new continents during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The impact of these forces of change shaped the progress and development of the West in the following centuries. The chronological span of three hundred and fifty years from 1450 to 1800 witnessed a most concentrated and consistent flourishing of intellectual, scientific and creative progress and dramatic change not only in Europe, but through overseas discovery and expansion, worldwide. This Early Modern Period was the first truly global age in which the words ‘Europe’, ‘European’ and ‘Civilization’ acquired new and immense significance.

Through studying the experiences of two major European powers of the early modern period: the Dutch Republic and France. This module examines that crucial period in world history in which the cultural, political, economic, social, intellectual, scientific and strategic foundations of our present world were established. It focuses upon the great events and movements of the period that shaped human development such as Renaissance Humanism, Religious, Cultural and Social Reformations, Exploration, Discovery, Scientific Development, Baroque Art & Neo-Classicism and the rise of Political Absolutism, Modern Military and Diplomatic Strategy and the emergence of the modern power-state, of the nation-state, of overseas dominions, and of supra-national institutions.

HIS 10070 - The Making of Modern Europe (Audit / Credit)

This module offers a sweeping introduction to some of the momentous changes which have taken place in Europe over the past five hundred years. It explores some of the major landmarks in Europe’s social, political, and economic development: the development of European Empires, religious change, witchcraft, the industrial revolution, democratic change, war in the modern world, the Cold War and socio-cultural change since 1945. There will be one lecture every week which will introduce students to these themes, but the heart of the course lies in the seminars. Here, students will be encouraged to challenge interpretations of the past, to debate ideas and to draw on primary evidence.

HIS20670 - The French Revolution (Audit / Credit)

This module will begin by examining the intellectual, cultural, social and political origins of the revolution. The core of the module will be a narrative of the revolution from 1789 to the fall of Robespierre and the end of the Terror. In the course of the narrative, the revolution’s varied contributions to the development of modern political culture will be discussed, from liberalism through revolutionary war and nationalism to political violence and the Utopian reign of Virtue. Seminars will be constructed around readings of contemporary documents and secondary literature.

HIS20780 - History of Science (Audit / Credit)

This module provides a broad outline of the history of science, from ancient times to the present, and incorporates a number of fields of study that we today consider to be ‘scientific’. It traces a line from the earliest conceptions of the universe to the evolving views of mankind’s relationship with his world, through the Scientific Revolution to current and emerging scientific theories that challenge our very notions of reality itself. The course addresses the question of what counts as science, and whether this has changed over time. What, for example, would the idea of ‘science’ or ‘scientific endeavour’ have meant to the earliest geographers, zoologists or mathematicians? What line divides early-modern astronomical navigation from astrology? What is a ‘scientific revolution’? How does the history of science confirm or challenge our ideas of historical narratives?

HIS20460 - Islam and Christianity In the Middle Ages (Audit / Credit)

The first part of this module will examine how Muhammad’s revolutionary new message gave rise to a vibrant culture that changed the east and west forever. Who was Mohammad and what was his message? Why was Islam so successful? How did it transform the ancient world? It will then go on to assess the expansion of Islam and its impact on the early middle ages up to c.750 CE. The second part of the module will consider the continuation of the Arab conquests in the Mediterranean and southern Europe between the 8th and 10th centuries CE and the Christian recovery of territory in the 11th century, beginning with the Berber landings in southern Spain in 711 and ending with the construction of the cathedral of Pisa in 1064. Throughout the module relations between the two faith communities will be studied through texts. Students will have the opportunity to read a selection of primary sources including key religious works such as the Qur’an, Arab and Christian narrative histories of the period, legal and constitutional texts, literature, letters and epigraphy.

HIS21120 – Northern Ireland, 1920-2010: from partition to Paisley (Audit / Credit)

This course will chart the history of Northern Ireland from its foundation through state building, war, civil rights, sectarian conflict, and the peace process. Relative to its size, Northern Ireland is arguably the most studied and analysed place on earth in the twentieth century. Partition is by no means a phenomenon unique to Ireland. Germany, India, Korea, and Sudan are among the most prominent examples of a phenomenon that has been a major component of the twentieth century world. The Northern Irish troubles witnessed the deaths of 3,636 people between 1966 and 1999. The conflict has been a defining moment in the modern histories of Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Britain. In being a resolved conflict, the solution arrived at in 1998 has become a template for peace processes the world over. 1998 initiated a peace process rather than concluding a peace settlement. That peace has been at times unstable, fragile, and imperfect. This course will progress past the Good Friday Agreement, examining the history of near contemporary Northern Ireland to examine how power sharing, decommissioning, and cultural demobilisation have shaped a new polity, asking what changed and what stayed the same.

HIS10080 - Rome to Renaissance (Audit / Credit)

This module provides an introduction to European history during the middle ages, from the fall of Rome in the fifth century to the Renaissance of the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The middle ages, once dismissed as a time of stagnation and superstition, is now regarded as an exciting period of ferment, innovation and creativity. The social, political and cultural foundations of modern Europe were established in the middle ages, and the modern era cannot be understood without an awareness of this formative millennium. But equally, the study of the middle ages often means encountering the strange and unfamiliar, and this too is an essential part of being a historian. This course will study the period by focusing on a range of significant events which illustrate some of the most important developments of the period. These include the sack of Rome by barbarians, the influence of the Irish on the conversion of Europe to Christianity, the trial of Joan of Arc, and Columbus’s ‘discovery’ of America. By the end of the semester not only will you have a grounding in medieval history, society and civilisation, but you will have experience of dealing directly with historical evidence, and evaluating and interpreting it in order to reach conclusions about events and people from the past.

HIS20980 - The Russian Revolution (Audit / Credit)

The Russian revolution was one of the critical events of twentieth century history. It raises many questions to which there are no simple answers and which have divided and continue to divide historians. We shall consider rival interpretations of the revolution and explore a range of questions, including: Why did the Romanov dynasty collapse in 1917? How did it come to be replaced by a group of extremist intellectuals committed to a radical experiment in social engineering? What did the revolution mean to the soldiers and workers who helped to make it, as opposed to the radical intellectuals who led it? What was its appeal and did the changes it effected match the hopes of its supporters? What was its impact on the lives of those who experienced it and the political culture that emerged from it?

HIS20560 - 20th Century War and Peace: International History 1914-1991 (Audit / Credit)

This module offers a survey of international history in the twentieth century. We start with the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and move chronologically towards the end of the Cold War and beyond. Particular emphasis is given to the three great conflicts of the century:

World War I
World War II
Cold War

as well as the shifting balance of power in Europe and Asia. In seminars you will be asked to explore the controversial debates that surround this period. Special prominence is given to the policies of the Great Powers, and the major ideological, cultural, and economic forces that shaped these policies.

DSCY10050 - War: Ancient and Modern (Discovery Module) (Audit / Credit)

War is as old as mankind, but it has changed its character over the centuries. This module will introduce students to the changing character of war from ancient times to the present, highlighting the latest research results on a large variety of conflicts and themes: wars, piracy and civil wars in the ancient world, the Viking conquests in Europe, the Crusades, the Wars of Religion, the Napoleonic Wars of the 19th century and the American Civil War to the total wars of the 20th century. The module takes an inter-disciplinary perspective on war, combining insights from history, classics, politics , medicine and sociology. Together, faculty from these diverse disciplines will introduce some of the latest cutting edge research on violence and gender, medical responses to the outbreaks of war and the ‘new wars’ on terror in today’s Middle East.

War: Ancient and Modern is a Discovery Module. Discovery modules are designed to capture the strength of approaching issues from more than one perspective and so offer a unique learning opportunity to students. Each module is taught by experts from more than one school and draws on cutting-edge research to consider an issue of historical or current global significance.

Semester 2 Modules (beginning 22 January, 2018)

HIS21070 - Australia: from the Dreaming to today (Audit / Credit)

This module surveys the history of Australia since colonisation, and considers how key moments in Australian history have been remembered and debated in the public domain. Drawing upon contemporary commemoration, memorial and museum practices, its themes include: the history and memory of early European exploration and colonisation; the agency of indigenous people in national history; the frontier experience and race relations; the transition from self-governing colonies to federated nationhood; histories of migration; experiences of war; the shift to multiculturalism; and the changing nature of Australian identity in a globalised world. In doing so, it will compare representations of Australian history with other nations of the Anglo settler world, and consider some of the ways in which historical imagination is shaped both within and beyond Australia.

HIS21080 - British Empire, 1495-1945 (Audit / Credit)

This module will investigate the origins and evolution of the British empire, from the early adventurers’ journeys of exploration in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to the zenith of British dominion over large areas of the globe in the early twentieth century. Throughout the module, emphasis will be placed on themes such as exploration, trade, slavery, war, humanitarianism, and culture and cultural exchange in relation to the emergence and expansion of the empire.

Issues regarding the relationship between the coloniser and the colonised and the centre and periphery will be explored, along with examination of the various ways in which the empire was represented through media such as print, art, cartography, and music.

HIS32200 - Colonial Latin America, 1492-1898 (Audit / Credit)

This module examines the history of Colonial Latin America from the Columbian discovery of the New World in 1492 to the end of Spanish dominion in the Americas in 1898. It provides an outline of both the Portuguese and Spanish imperial enterprises from the earliest explorations to the establishment of colonial societies wholly different from their Spanish and Portuguese counterparts.

While this course is chronological, it also approaches the subject thematically, including: early explorations, indigenous America, representations of America in Europe, slavery, mining, trade, colonial society, and the independence movements of the nineteenth century.

HIS21110 - Conflict in Modern Europe (Audit / Credit)

This module will cover a number of aspects of conflict in Europe during the Twentieth century. It will examine total war in the form of the two major conflicts of 1914-18 and 1939-45, but will also take in case studies of civil war, small wars and the Cold War. These case studies will include the Spanish Civil War, the Northern Ireland conflict and the Yugoslav wars. Experiences of the Cold War will be covered, looking at both sides of the Iron Curtain. We will look not just at regular and irregular warfare but protest movements and state responses to communal violence. Finally, the module will evaluate the consequences of the formation of international institutions such as the European Union and consider their attempts to alleviate conflict in contemporary Europe.

HIS20970 - Early Medieval Ireland: Culture, Society and Politics (Audit / Credit)

Ireland fully entered recorded history with the arrival of Christianity in the fourth and fifth centuries AD. Its culture was rooted in the native past as well as in contemporary Europe. These two influences, the old and the new, were creatively combined. The Irish developed a unique form of kingship and a complex social system. Their achievements in literature, art and religion were recognised across Western Europe, to such an extent that Ireland became known as the Island of Saints and Scholars.

This module will introduce students to the history of Ireland between AD 400-1200. It will focus, in particular, on conversion to Christianity, changes in Irish kingship, the evolution of the Church and the impact of the Vikings. It will provide a framework through which the earliest years of Irish history can be understood.

HIS10320 - From Union to Bailout: Imagining Ireland, 1800 – Present (Audit / Credit)

This course takes students through two centuries of modern Irish history, examining key events, themes and milestones from the Act of Union between Britain and Ireland in 1800 to the collapse of the Irish economy in the early twenty-first century.

It covers political, social, economic and cultural dimensions of Irish history during tumultuous times, the experience of Anglo-Irish relations, Catholic emancipation, famine, the evolution of Irish nationalism and unionism, the land war, the revolutionary upheavals of the early twentieth century, the impact of partition, the quest for sovereignty in the Free State, the experience of life in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, and continuity and change in the latter part of the twentieth century.

HIS20780 - History of Science (Audit / Credit)

HIS10310 - Ireland’s English Centuries (Audit / Credit)

In 1460 Ireland was a patchwork of lordships including an English Pale, by 1800 the country was poised to enter a United Kingdom with England and Scotland. In 1460, all Irish people shared the common religion of Western Europe, by 1800 three groups – Catholics, Protestants and Dissenters dominated. In 1460, only a tiny number did not speak Irish, by 1800 English was spoken by well over half the population. During these 340 years Ireland experienced massive transfers of land-holding, invasions, bitter civil war and a huge expansion of population. This module explains the complex blend of identities, allegiances and social changes that shaped the past and continue to shape the Irish present.

HIS20960 - The Irish Experience (Audit / Credit)

This module explores the forces which shaped Irish society in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from the perspective of ordinary lives and everyday experiences, experiences of sickness and health, love and marriage, birth and death, getting and spending.

The topics examined will include population increase and decline – including the impact of emigration and disease – the revolution in communications, changes in religious and medical practices, and debates on child and maternal welfare.

The Irish case will be situated within broader European and British trends.

HIS20470 - Modern America (Audit / Credit)

This course will survey the evolution of the United States from the consolidation of American independence until the twentieth century. It will address issues such as the evolution of party politics, the opening up of the west, the lead-up to the Civil War and the various platforms of reform that were promoted at popular level during the nineteenth century. The post-civil war lectures will address the impact of Emancipation as well as the impact of industrialisation and the ‘new’ immigration and the background to US involvement in the two world wars of the twentieth century.

2DSCY10050 - War: Ancient and Modern (Discovery Module) (Audit / Credit)

Discovery modules are designed to capture the strength of approaching issues from more than one perspective and so offer a unique learning opportunity to students. Each module is taught by experts from more than one school and draws on cutting-edge research to consider an issue of historical or current global significance.

More Information

Open Learning gives adult learners the opportunity to study a range of undergraduate modules at UCD. There are no entry requirements and these courses are open to everyone. Learners can take any combination of modules for interest only (audit) or complete the course assessments (credit).

Go to www.ucd.ie/all/study for more information on UCD Access and Lifelong Learning

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Pedro Cardim – Portugal and the Spanish Monarchy in the 16th & 17th Centuries

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Pedro Cardim is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, and Researcher and Board Member at the Portuguese Centre for Global History (CHAM) at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, or New University of Lisbon.

His work focuses on the political and administrative history of Portugal between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, with particular emphasis on the political status of Portuguese territories, territorial expansion in the 16th and 17th centuries in Europe and overseas, political-administrative communication under the authority of the Portuguese Crown, and comparisons between Portuguese and Spanish colonization in America.

He is author and editor of a number of works, including: Portugal unido y separado, published in 2014, D. Afonso VI, co-authored with Ângela Barreto Xavier, published in 2006, and Polycentric Monarchies, co-edited with Tamar Herzog, José Javier Ruíz Ibáñez and Gaetano Sabatini, published in 2012.

From 2012 to 2016, he was Coordinator of the research project Bahia 16-19 – Salvador da Bahia: American, European, and African forging of a colonial capital city, funded by Marie Curie Actions (European Commission) under the International Research Staff Exchange Scheme.

In episode 11 of History Hub’s podcast series – ‘Kingdom, Empire and Plus Ultra: conversations on the history of Portugal and Spain, 1415-1898‘ – Professor Cardim is in conversation with series host Dr Edward Collins. In the episode, which is available to podcast on iTunes and Soundcloud, they discuss the interaction between Portugal and the Spanish Monarchy during the early modern period, concentrating on two coexisting processes. On the one hand, the differentiation between the various political formations within the Iberian Peninsula. On the other, the persistence (and even strengthening) of an ancient sense of belonging to Hispania.

Throughout the early modern period, Portugal and Spain underwent many profound changes, both at the political, religious, economic, and social level. They dramatically expanded their political horizons and became the heads of two global empires. Additionally, both Spain and Portugal developed their own political and administrative apparatuses, as well as their own identity markers (religion, language, literature, etc.).

In parallel, however, the exchanges between all parts of the Iberian Peninsula remained very intense, and the same could be said about the interaction between Spaniards and Portuguese. After the incorporation of Portugal into the Spanish Monarchy, this interaction became even more intense, generating contradictory reactions: stronger sentiments of belonging to the Hispanic world; an increasing fear of loss of Portuguese identity, which would persist until the end of Iberian Union in 1640.

‘The Idea of Hispania: Portugal and the Spanish Monarchy in the 16th and 17th Centuries’ with Professor Pedro Cardim (New University of Lisbon).

Kingdom, Empire and Plus Ultra

This History Hub series is funded by UCD Seed Funding and supported by UCD School of History. Series editor is Mike Liffey (Real Smart Media).

Download series episodes on iTunes or listen via Soundcloud.

Episodes

Image: detail from ‘Lisbon em 1619′ showing the arrival of King Philip II (of Portugal) into Lisbon by Ioam Schorquens (1595-1630) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

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Commemorating Partition and Civil Wars in Ireland, 2020-23

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Commemorating Partition and Civil Wars in Ireland, 2020-2023 is a project run by Dr Marie Coleman and Dr Dominic Bryan at Queen’s University Belfast. The project, which is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, examines approaches to the 2020-2023 period of the ‘decade of centenaries’, on both sides of the Border.

Since the project’s inception in 2017, two events have taken place in Queen’s University Belfast:

In her introductory comments at the project’s first event – Civil Wars and their Legacy – Dr Coleman, quoting Tom Hartley, former Lord Mayor of Belfast, remarked that: “1916 is the easy bit. The hard bit is going to come when we look at 1920-1923″.

Upcoming commemorations include centenaries of the partition of Ireland, the creation of Northern Ireland, and the Irish Civil War, events which represent complex challenges in the context of commemoration, specially in Northern Ireland.

Civil Wars and their Legacy

Civil Wars and their Legacy brought together a number of leading historians to Queen’s on 10 March 2017, to explore these, and other issues related to the Irish Civil War, the Finnish Civil War and the history of civil wars generally.

All four papers at the conference were recorded for podcasting by Real Smart Media and are now available on History Hub. The speakers were:

Keynote: David Armitage (Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University)
Civil Wars: A History in Ideas.

Dr Bill Kissane (London School of Economics)
State formation, contested legitimacy and civil war in independent Ireland 1922-23.

Dr Gemma Clark (University of Exeter)
The nature of communal violence in the Irish Civil war

Dr Tuomas Tepora (University of Helsinki)
The Finnish Civil War and its legacy, 1918

Listen to podcasts on Soundcloud or download from iTunes.

Civil Wars and their Legacy was organised by the AHRC-funded project Commemorating Partition and Civil Wars in Ireland, 2020-2023, in conjunction with Queen’s University’s School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy & Politics, the Institute of Irish Studies and the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice.

Commemoration and Conflict in Ireland, 1920-1922

Commemoration and Conflict in Ireland, 1920-1922 took place in Queen’s University Belfast on 12 June 2017.

The speakers at the conference were:

Dr Matthew Lewis
Northern experiences of the Civil War’s aftermath.

Dr Anne Dolan (Trinity College Dublin)
Divisions after the Irish Civil War

Dr Gavin Foster (Concordia University)
Local and Family Memory of the Irish Civil War

Annual Irish Studies Lecture - Prof. Richard Kearney (Boston College)
Commemoration: Trauma and Recovery
With a response by Prof. Maurice Manning, Chancellor of the National University of Ireland

Listen to podcasts on Soundcloud or download from iTunes.

Conference photos by Real Smart Media.

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Gai Roufe. Portuguese Colonialism in Africa

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Gai Roufe lectures at the Inter-university programme of African studies. This programme is shared by Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Tel Aviv University and the Open University. His research interests include precolonial history of Africa, the history of the Portuguese presence in south-east Africa and Portuguese colonialism in Africa.

Recently, as part of the EU’s Erasmus+ exchange programme, Dr Roufe was visiting lecturer in the University College Dublin School of History where he recorded three podcasts for History Hub.

The creation of modern Portuguese colonialism in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The Portuguese Colonial Wars in Angola, Mozambique, and Portuguese Guinea.
The Process of Decolonisation of Portuguese Africa.

The podcasts are now available on Soundcloud and on iTunes.

Erasmus+
Erasmus+ is the EU’s programme to support education, training, youth and sport in Europe. Its budget of €14.7 billion will provide opportunities for over 4 million Europeans to study, train, gain experience, and volunteer abroad.

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