BA (Mod), PhD
Scholarly Communications Officer
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Biography
I am the Administrator for Aberdeen University Press and am part of the Scholarly Communications Team based in the Sir Duncan Rice Library.
Originally from Dublin, I graduated with a BA (Mod) in History from Trinity College Dublin. My PhD (2003) on Quaker Theology and Discipline in seventeenth-century Ireland and England was supervised by Professor Aiden Clarke at Trinity College Dublin. I then moved to NUI Maynooth as a Government of Ireland (IRCHSS) Postdoctoral Fellow for two years (2004-6) to work on dissenter biographies.
Qualifications
- BA (Mod) History1993 - Trinity College Dublin
- PhD History2003 - Trinity College Dublin
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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Sir Duncan Rice Library Green Library Task & Finish Group
- External Memberships
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Outer Board Assessor for the Government of Ireland Postdoctoral awards.
Member of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society and have research interests in Environmental History and also late eighteenth-century and early Victorian Scottish history and the history of religion (Quakerism, Catholicism and toleration).
Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Latest Publications
Mapping Friendship and Dissent: The Letters from Joseph Boyse to Ralph Thoresby, 1680-1710*
Varieties of Seventeenth-and Early Eighteenth-Century English Radicalism in Context. Hessayon, A., Finnegan, D. (eds.). Routledge, 16 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315548395-11
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Changing Their Path: Quaker Adaptation to the Challenge of Restoration, 1660-1680
Restoration Ireland: Always Settling and Never Settled. Dennehy, C. (ed.). Routledge, 14 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315605869
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Dissenters in a transnational context: The Quakers in Ireland (1660-1690)
Religious Refugees in Europe, Asia and North America (6th - 21st century)Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersWalk according to the Gospel order: Theology and discipline in the Quaker meeting system, 1650-1700
Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of HistoryBooks and Reports: Commissioned ReportsR.L. Greaves, Dublin's Merchant-Quaker: Anthony Sharp and the Community of Friends, 1643-1707
The Seventeenth Century (Taylor & Francis Ltd.), vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 76-77Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.1999.10555457
- Research
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Research Overview
Originally from Dublin, I graduated with a BA (Mod) in History from Trinity College Dublin. My PhD (2003) on Quaker Theology and Discipline in seventeenth-century Ireland and England was supervised by Professor Aiden Clarke at Trinity College Dublin. I then moved to NUI Maynooth as a Government of Ireland (IRCHSS) Postdoctoral Fellow for two years (2004-6) to work on dissenter biographies.
Research Specialisms
- History of Religions
- Irish History
- Scottish History
- Environmental History
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
Current Research
I am currently researching the early nineteenth century in Scotland and also environmental humanities.
Past Research
Selected Publications:
Journals (co-editor)
Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies (with Michael Brown), 7.1 (2013): Contested Witnesses in Irish and Scottish literature, 205pp.
Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies (with Michael Brown), 6.2 (2013): Social Order and Social Ordering in Stuart Ireland and Scotland, 138pp.
Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies (with Michael Brown) 6.1 (2012): National Cosmopolitanisms, 213pp
Articles
Mapping friendship and dissent: the letters from Joseph Boyse to Ralph Thoresby, 1680-1710 in Arial Hessayon and David Finnegan (eds) Varieties of seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century radicalism in context (Ashgate, 2011)
Changing their path: Quaker adaptation to the challenge of Restoration, 1660-1680 in Coleman Dennehy (ed.) Restoration Ireland (Ashgate, 2008)
Dissenters in a trans-national context: The Quakers in Ireland 1660-1690 in Claudia Schnurmann (ed.) Religious refugees in Europe, Ireland and America from the 6th to the 21st centuries, Atlantic Cultures Series (LIT-Verlag, 2007)
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), 107-12
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Mapping Friendship and Dissent: The Letters from Joseph Boyse to Ralph Thoresby, 1680-1710*
Varieties of Seventeenth-and Early Eighteenth-Century English Radicalism in Context. Hessayon, A., Finnegan, D. (eds.). Routledge, 16 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315548395-11
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Changing Their Path: Quaker Adaptation to the Challenge of Restoration, 1660-1680
Restoration Ireland: Always Settling and Never Settled. Dennehy, C. (ed.). Routledge, 14 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315605869
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Dissenters in a transnational context: The Quakers in Ireland (1660-1690)
Religious Refugees in Europe, Asia and North America (6th - 21st century)Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersWalk according to the Gospel order: Theology and discipline in the Quaker meeting system, 1650-1700
Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of HistoryBooks and Reports: Commissioned ReportsR.L. Greaves, Dublin's Merchant-Quaker: Anthony Sharp and the Community of Friends, 1643-1707
The Seventeenth Century (Taylor & Francis Ltd.), vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 76-77Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.1999.10555457