department of History
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Pádraig lenihan

Teaching

 Pádraig teaches the following modules:

HI252 Problems in the History of Ireland 
HI403 Warfare in Seventeenth Century Europe
HI204 Eighteenth Century Ireland
HI317 Technology and Society 1750-1930. 

He is interested in supervising graduate work in early modern military history, Irish history in the long (c.1590-1750) seventeenth century, neo-Latin texts, history of technology, and the history of medicine. His current and recent Ph.D Students are:

Terri Shoosmith:  ’Society and Settlement in the barony of Tulla 1650-1840’
Freyne Corbett:  ’The Leadership and Organization of Catholic Insurgent Forces 1641-42’
Vincent O’Connor:  ’Athlone Corporation 1606-1832’ Ph.D conferred in 2009

Research Interests

Pádraig is mainly interested in European military history from the Thirty Years War to the War of the Spanish Succession, with special emphasis on warfare in Ireland. His Confederate Catholics at War 1642-49 (Cork 2001) and 1690 Battle of the Boyne 1690 (History Press, 2003) reflect this interest.

So, too, do sole and co-edited volumes:

Conquest and Resistance: Irish Warfare in the Seventeenth Century (Brill and Leiden, 2001)
	and The Age of Atrocity (Dublin, 2007)

 Pádraig has also written a textbook for third-level students on the long Irish seventeenth century which is informed and enriched by his many years teaching this period. Consolidating Conquest: Ireland 1603-1730 (Longman, 2007) spans the period from the ’Flight of the Earls’ in 1603 (preceded by an introduction to Tudor Ireland) until the accession of George II in 1727. The survey combines a familiar framework of interknit theme and chronology with fresh interpretations of the catastrophic seventeenth-century.

public service & Professional Activity

He is a member of the Department of Environment expert group on battle site identification and protection.

He serves on the editorial board of the Commentarius Rinuccianus (a multi-volume Latin history of Ireland in the crucible decades of the 1640s and 1650s) The project is managed by the University of Ulster and funded by the Department of Arts, Sports and Tourism.

He is a member of the Latin Post Reformation Texts project funded by the European Social Fund and led by the Department of Classics, Trinity College Dublin. The object of this international group (with members from Sweden, Denmark, Ireland and the UK) is to bring together historians and classicists with a view to choosing texts for editing and translation.

He is a member of a standing committee comprising half a dozen leading British and Irish scholars working on a project to edit Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches led by Prof. John Morrill, Selwyn College, Cambridge. 

The subject area of much of his writing has a genuine popular appeal and participation in suitable television and radio programmes raises the profile of early modern history and of NUIG. Pádraig participated prominently, for instance, in the IFTA-winning documentary ’Cromwell in Ireland’, broadcast in 2008. He is also involved in the RTE/BBC co-produced six part history of Ireland presented by Fergal Keane and due to be broadcast in 2011.

To hear Pádraig’s podcasts on ’The Irish Story’ click on the links below:

http://www.theirishstory.com/2010/05/12/padraig-lenihan-and-the-17th-century-in-ireland/

http://www.theirishstory.com/2010/07/12/today-in-irish-history-the-battle-of-the-boyne-july-12/

http://www.theirishstory.com/2010/09/14/the-irish-language-part-i-decline/

Contact Details

E-mail: padraig.lenihannuigalway.ie   Office: Room 312, History Department Extension: 5680 Telephone: 353 91 495680

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