Gaelic and Colonial ireland research Cluster

Providing modern Irish society with a new understanding of native society and its engagement with newcomers and colonisation

Staff Research

Dr Elizabeth FitzPatrick ( Profile)

Dr Kieran O'Conor ( Profile)

Current Projects

• The Archaeology of the Irish Sea region 1100-1500 (Kieran O'Conor)
• Estates, schools and residences of native learned families (Elizabeth FitzPatrick)
• Settlement and traditional society in late medieval and early modern Burren (Elizabeth FitzPatrick)
• San Pietro in Montorio: burial place of the exiled Irish in Rome (Elizabeth FitzPatrick)

Current Graduate Research

PhD

• Fiona Beglane: Hunting in medieval Ireland
• Eve Campbell: Displacement and relocation in early modern Ireland: studies of transplantation settlements in Connacht and Clare (IRCHSS Government of Ireland Scholar)
• Miriam Clyne: Irish medieval Premonstratensian monasteries and their European context (Lady Gregory Fellow)
• Caitríona Gleeson: Archaeological evidence for social differentiation in the medieval Irish town
• Brí Greene: Castleroche: an interdisciplinary study
• Theresa McDonald: Booleying in Achill, Achill Beg and Corraun
• Yvonne McDermott: Patronage and Observance: the Franciscans and Dominicans in the lordships of MacWilliam Iochtar and MacWilliam Uachtar, 1330-1550
• Paul Murphy: A landscape study of the Anglo-Norman boroughs of Clonmines, Bannow and Old Ross (Arts Faculty Fellow)

M.Litt

• Laura Leahy: The hall houses of Tomdeely, Shrule and Moylough
• Enda O'Flaherty: Economy, Settlement and Seasonal Flooding in the River Clare Basin
• Colleen O'Hara: The cultural context of Ulster coarse pottery c. 1200-1650
• Daniel Tietzch-Tyler: The value of archaeological reconstruction drawing to the archaeologist and non-specialist

Completed Graduate Research 2000-2010

PhD

• Christy Cunniffe: Medieval Clonfert: the genesis, development and decline of a Gaelic cathedral town. (2010)
• Siobhán McDermott: Iconic Landscapes: settlement and society in Truagh, north County Monaghan, c. 1591-1800 (Lady Gregory Fellow) (2010)
• Jacqui O'Hara: A landscape archaeology of later medieval Fermanagh (2009).
• Paul Naessens: The Uí Fhlaithbheartaigh Gaelic lordship of Iarchonnacht: medieval lordly settlement on the Atlantic seaboard (2009)
• James McKeon: Anglo-Norman frontier urban settlement in the Plantagenet realm: studies from south Connacht (2008)
• Rory Sherlock: The social environment of the Irish tower house (2008)
• Diarmuid Ó Seaneachain: English plantation settlement and the lost indigenous landscapes of Ulster and Chesapeake Bay in the sixteenth century (2006)
• Colin Breen: The archaeology and cultural landscape history of Bantry and Beara 1200-1650 (2004)

M.Litt

• Matthew Logue: The castle of Greencastle, Co. Donegal (2006)
• John Malcolm: Castles and English lordship in Uí Fhiachrach Muaidhe, c.1235- c.1400 (2004)
• Helen Bermingham: Priests' residences in late medieval Ireland (2001)
• Oliver McHugh: Crannogs in the barony of Monaghan: a case for late occupation in a Gaelic Lordship (2000)

M.A.

• Margaret Murphy: Roscommon Castle (2002)

M.A. in Medieval Studies

• Erin Britton: Fiddaun Castle: An O'Shaughnessy Tower House (2008)

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