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Dr Sandra Hynes

Dr Sandra Hynes is a history graduate of Trinity College Dublin. She received her PhD in 2003 for a study of discipline and theology in Restoration Quakerism in Britain and Ireland.

She was an IRCHSS Government of Ireland Scholar (2004-2006) at NUI Maynooth, working on spiritual biographies of dissenters, and has published numerous articles on the dissenting cultures of seventeenth-century Ireland and Britain.

Her research interests lare in the history of religious toleration and the history of disability in early modern Britain and Ireland. Her current research centres on the relationship between theology and disability from c. 1530-1700. Dr Hynes also works as an Assistive Technology advisor to students with disabilities at the University of Aberdeen.

Publications

‘Becoming convinced: the use of Quaker testimonies in late seventeenth-century Ireland’ in Michael Brown, Charles Ivar McGrath and Tom P. Power (eds.), Converts and conversion in Ireland, 1650-1850. (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2005), 107-128

‘Dissenters in a trans-national context: The Quakers in Ireland 1660-1690’ in Claudia Schnurmann (ed.) Religious refugees in Europe, Asia and America (6th - 21st century), Atlantic Cultures Series (LIT-Verlag; Munster, 2007), 93-106

‘Changing their path: Quaker adaptation to the challenge of Restoration, 1660-1680’ in Coleman Dennehy (ed.) Restoration Ireland (Ashgate Press; Aldershot, 2008)

‘Joseph Boyse and toleration: radical religion in Ireland in the late seventeenth century’ in Ariel Hessayon (ed.) Rediscovering radicalism in the British Isles and Ireland c.1550-c.1700: movements of people, texts and ideas (Ashgate Press; Aldershot, forthcoming)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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