Posted on 1 February, 2005
Conflict and Conquest; Oliver Cromwell in Ireland
Micheál Ó Siochrú (History) has received a two-year special research fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust for 2002-4 for researching Conflict and Conquest; Oliver Cromwell in Ireland, which will be published by Faber and Faber in 2005. Based on extensive archival research, this project will assess the impact of the Cromwellian Wars on Irish society. In addition to focusing on military campaigns, it will also address political, socio-economic and cultural developments in mid seventeenth-century Ireland. The project will examine governmental structures of the confederate/royalist alliance at national, provincial and local levels. The emergence of a national identity among Irish Catholics, based on the shared experience of the confederate association, and the varied responses of Irish Protestants to Cromwell will merit particular attention. Throughout, the experiences of both groups will be compared to their British and continental counterparts.
Congratulations to Professor Allan Macinnes, who has been given two research fellowships - to Ecole des Hautes du Social Sciences [EHSS], in Paris in May 2005, and the second, from the Mellon Fellowship to the Huntington Library in San Marino in the autumn of 2005.