Ciaran Brady
Professor
Early Modern History and Historiography
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
My teaching closely follows my research interests. At undergraduate level I teach Sophister [level 3 and 4] modules on sixteenth-century cultural history, The Elizabethans and their World and History-writing in nineteenth century Britain and Ireland. At Freshman level I participate in two modules on early modern Irish history, two modules on American history, and a module on early modern British history. At postgraduate level I participate in the History Departments M.Phil programmes in Early Modern History and Modern Irish History and I co-ordinate the module Contesting Histories, shared also with the M.Phil in Public History. I am happy to offer supervision for research degrees on topics related sixteenth-century Ireland and England and on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and Irish history-writing.
Research Interest
My research interests have developed along two different but for me closely related lines. First, as an early modernist by training, I continue to research and write on Irish and English history in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Within this field I have a particular interest in the relations between the Gaelic Irish lordships and the English government and in the way the latter sought to engage with the former in terms both of practical policy and theoretical understanding. I am currently at work on the preparation of a Calendar of State Papers for the years 1556-65. My awareness of the unresolved interpretative conflicts which surround early modern Irish history and Anglo-Irish relations stimulated my second research interest in the theory and practice of history writing. I have published several articles and edited a number of books in this area and I have recently completed a study of the Victorian man-of letters and historian of the sixteenth century, James Anthony Froude.
Publications
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Sir Henry Sidney and the Reformation in Ireland in editor(s)Elizabethanne Boran and Crawford Gribben , Enforcing Reformation in Ireland and Scotland, Palgrave Press, 2006, pp 14 – 39.
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Destinies Intertwined: the Metaphysical Unionism of James Anthony Froude in Seamas Ó Siocháin , Social thought on Ireland in the Nineteenth Century, UCD Press, 2009, pp108 – 134.
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Spenser, plantation and government policy in, editor Richard A. McCabe , The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010, pp 86 – 105
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Arrested development: Competing Histories and the formation of the Irish historical profession, 1801 – 1938 in, editor(s)Tibor Frank and Frank Hadler , Disputed Territories and shared pasts: overlapping national histories in Modern Europe, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp 275 – 302.
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From policy to power: the evolution of Tudor reform strategies in sixteenth century Ireland in, editor, Brian Mac Cuarta , Reshaping Ireland1550 - 1700: colonisation and its consequences, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2011, pp21 - 42
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Viceroys The Irish chief governors, 1541-1641 in editor(s)Peter Gray and Olwen Purdue , The Irish Lord Lieutenancy, c1541-1922, Dublin, UCD Press, 2012, pp15 – 42
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Ireland : In the shadow of the fond abuser in editor Peter Furtado , Histories of Nations: how their identities were forged, London, Thames and Hudson, 2012, pp70 – 82
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Coming into the weigh-house: Elizabeth I and the government of Ireland in editor(s)Brendan Kane and Valerie McGowan-Doyle , Elizabeth I and Ireland, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp113 – 141
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An Old Kind of History: the Anglo-Irish writing of Irish History, 1840 – 1910, in editor(s) Carine Berberi and Martine Pelletier , Ireland: Authority and Crisis, Bern, Peter Lang, 2015, pp 247 – 286.
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Sir John Gilbert: historian of the Irish bourgeoisie in, editor(s) Salvador Ryan and Clodagh Tait, Religion and politics in urban Ireland, c. 1500 - c. 1750, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2016, pp 249 – 274
