Éamonn Ó Ciardha
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Biography
Ó Ciardha is a native of ScotshouseScotshouse
Scotshouse is a small agricultural village about away from the border town of Clones, in County Monaghan, Republic of Ireland.It is close to the border with both County Cavan and County Fermanagh...
, County Monaghan
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. He has an M.A. from the National University of Ireland
National University of Ireland
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and a Ph.D.
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from Cambridge University. His areas of interest are 17th- and 18th-century Irish history, focusing on Jacobitism
Jacobitism
Jacobitism was the political movement in Britain dedicated to the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England, Scotland, later the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Kingdom of Ireland...
, law, disorder and Irish language
Irish language
Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...
sources for the era.
Forerly a visiting professor at St Michael's College, University of Toronto
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and at the Keough Institute of Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame
University of Notre Dame
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, he is a Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences fellow
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in the department of Modern History
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, Trinity College, Dublin
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Articles
- Gaelic sources for the history of Ireland and Scotland in the early-modern period, in Bulletin of the Early Modern Ireland Committee, 1 (2). (1994), pp. 21–34.
- Tóraíochas is Rapairíochas in Éirinn sa seachtú haois déag/Tories and Rapparees in Ireland in the seventeenth century, History IrelandHistory IrelandHistory Ireland is a magazine about the history of Ireland published every two months. It features articles by a range of writers and book reviews. The focus is on history rather than archaeology.The magazine's editor isTommy Graham....
, 2 (1994), pp. 21–25. - Buachaillí an tsléibhe agus bodaigh gan chéill: Toraíochas agus Rapairíochas i gCúige Uladh agus i dtuaisceart Chonnacht sa seachtú agas san ochtú haois déag, in Studia HibernicaStudia HibernicaStudia Hibernica is an annual academic journal for Irish studies, focusing on the wide spectrum of Irish language, literature, history, archaeology and folklore...
, xxix (1995-7), pp. 59–85. - Toryism in Cromwellian Ireland. Irish Sword, xix (1995). pp. 290–305.
- The Jacobite tradition 1719-1760, in Celtic History Review, II (1996), pp. 20–23.
- review of Fagan (ed.), Ireland in the Stuart papers, in History IrelandHistory IrelandHistory Ireland is a magazine about the history of Ireland published every two months. It features articles by a range of writers and book reviews. The focus is on history rather than archaeology.The magazine's editor isTommy Graham....
, iv, no. 2 (1996), pp. 53–55. - review of Ó Saothraí, An Ministir Gaelach, in Irish Historical Studies, xxx (1997), pp. 481–3.
- ToryToryToryism is a traditionalist and conservative political philosophy which grew out of the Cavalier faction in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It is a prominent ideology in the politics of the United Kingdom, but also features in parts of The Commonwealth, particularly in Canada...
and RappareeRappareeRapparees were Irish guerrilla fighters who operated on the Jacobite side during the 1690s Williamite war in Ireland. Subsequently the name was also given to bandits and highwaymen in Ireland - many former guerrillas having turned to crime after the war was over...
, in Welsch (ed.), Oxford companion to Irish literature (Oxford, 1996), pp. 490, 566. - the Stuarts and deliverance in Irish and Scots-Gaelic poetry 1690-1760, in Connolly (ed.), Kingdoms united, pp. 78–94.
- The unkinde deserter and the bright duke: the dukes of OrmondOrmond-Places:* Ormond , an ancient kingdom in the Province of Munster* Ormond Beach, Florida, a city in Florida* Ormond-By-The-Sea, Florida, a city in Florida** Ormond Beach Middle School, a middle school located in the city of Ormond Beach...
in the Irish royalist tradition, in Barnard and Fenlon (ed.), The dukes of Ormond, pp. 177–93. - A voice from the Jacobite underground: Liam InglisLiam Inglis-Overview:Ó Ciardha describes "Priest-poets such as Liam Inglis, Seán Ó Briain, Conchubhar Ó Briain, Domhnall Ó Colmáin and Uilliam mac Néill Bhacaigh Ó hIarlaithe" as "the heirs of Seathrún Céitinn and Pádraigín Haicéad who had emerged as major political voices in the seventeenth century...
, in Moran, (ed.), Radical Irish priests, pp. 16–39. - The Irish Outlaw: the making of a nationalist icon, in J. Kelly, J. McCafferty and I. McGrath (eds), People and politics in Ireland: Essays on Irish History, 1660-1850, in honour of James I McGuire.
- 'Fighting Dick' Talbot, 'the Chevalier' Wogan and Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally: Jailbreakers and Jailbirds, History Ireland, 19, No. 2 (2011), pp. 19–22.
Books
- The Irish statute Staple books, 1596-1687, ed., with Jane Ohlmeyer, Four Courts PressFour Courts PressFour Courts Press is an Irish academic publishing house.It was founded in 1970 by Michael Adams, a managing director at the Irish Academic Press and a member of Opus Dei. Its early publications were primarily theological, notably the English translation of the Navarre Bible...
, Dublin, 1999. - Ireland And The Jacobite Cause, 1685-1766: A Fatal Attachment, Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2001, 2004.
External links
- http://www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/RIProfiles.php?e_code=227053
- http://www.ulster.ac.uk/staff/e.ociardha.html
- http://www.irchss.ie/