Éamonn Ó Ciardha is an Irish

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

and writer.

Biography

Ó Ciardha is a native of

Scotshouse Scotshouse () is a small agricultural village in the parish of Currin in County Monaghan, Ireland. It is roughly three miles east of where the counties of Cavan, Fermanagh and Monaghan meet. Scotshouse is about from Clones, from Cavan town and ...

, a village in the west of County Monaghan. He has an M.A. from the

National University of Ireland The National University of Ireland (NUI) ( ga, Ollscoil na hÉireann) is a federal university system of ''constituent universities'' (previously called ''university college, constituent colleges'') and ''recognised colleges'' set up under t ...

and a

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from

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. His areas of interest are 17th- and

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Irish history, focusing on

Jacobitism Jacobitism (; gd, Seumasachas, ; ga, Seacaibíteachas, ) was a political movement that supported the restoration of the senior line of the House of Stuart to the Monarchy of the United Kingdom, British throne. The name derives from the first name ...

, law, disorder and

Irish language Irish ( Standard Irish: ), also known as Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, which is a part of the Indo-European language family. Irish is indigenous to the island of Ireland and was ...

sources for the era. Formerly a

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at St Michael's College,

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, and at the Keough Institute of Irish Studies,

University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac, known simply as Notre Dame ( ) or ND, is a private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, outside the city of South Bend. French priest Edward Sorin founded the school in 1842. The main campu ...

, he is currently an Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences

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in the department of

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Trinity College, Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

(TCD).

References

* ''About the author'' - ''Ireland And The Jacobite Cause'', 2004.

Bibliography

Articles

* ''Gaelic sources for the history of Ireland and Scotland in the early-modern period'', in ''Bulletin of the Early Modern Ireland Committee'', 1 (2). (1994), pp. 21–34. * ''Tóraíochas is Rapairíochas in Éirinn sa seachtú haois déag''/''Tories and Rapparees in Ireland in the seventeenth century'', '' History Ireland'', 2 (1994), pp. 21–25. * ''Buachaillí an tsléibhe agus bodaigh gan chéill: Toraíochas agus Rapairíochas i gCúige Uladh agus i dtuaisceart Chonnacht sa seachtú agas san ochtú haois déag'', in ''

Studia Hibernica ''Studia Hibernica'' is an annual academic journal for Irish studies, including a wide spectrum of Irish language and literature, history, etymology and topynomy, archaeology and folklore. It was originally published annually by St Patrick's C ...

'', xxix (1995-7), pp. 59–85. * ''Toryism in Cromwellian Ireland''. Irish Sword, xix (1995). pp. 290–305. * ''The Jacobite tradition 1719-1760'', in ''Celtic History Review'', II (1996), pp. 20–23. * review of Fagan (ed.), ''Ireland in the Stuart papers'', in '' History Ireland'', iv, no. 2 (1996), pp. 53–55. * review of Ó Saothraí, ''An Ministir Gaelach'', in ''Irish Historical Studies'', xxx (1997), pp. 481–3. * ''

Tory A Tory () is a person who holds a political philosophy known as Toryism, based on a British version of traditionalism and conservatism, which upholds the supremacy of social order as it has evolved in the English culture throughout history. Th ...

'' and '' Rapparee'', in Welsch (ed.), ''Oxford companion to Irish literature'' (Oxford, 1996), pp. 490, 566. * ''the Stuarts and deliverance in Irish and Scots-Gaelic poetry 1690-1760'', in Connolly (ed.), ''Kingdoms united'', pp. 78–94. * ''The unkinde deserter and the bright duke: the dukes of Ormond in the Irish royalist tradition'', in Barnard and Fenlon (ed.), ''The dukes of Ormond'', pp. 177–93. * ''A voice from the Jacobite underground: Liam Inglis'', in Moran, (ed.), ''Radical Irish priests'', pp. 16–39. * ''The Irish Outlaw: the making of a nationalist icon'', in J. Kelly, J. McCafferty and I. McGrath (eds), ''People and politics in Ireland: Essays on Irish History, 1660-1850, in honour of James I McGuire.'' * '' 'Fighting Dick' Talbot, 'the Chevalier' Wogan and

Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally, baron de Tollendal (13 January 17029 May 1766) was a French general of Irish Jacobite ancestry. Lally commanded French forces, including two battalions of his own red-coated Regiment of Lally of the Irish Brigade ...

: Jailbreakers and Jailbirds'', History Ireland, 19, No. 2 (2011), pp. 19–22.

Books

* ''The Irish statute Staple books, 1596-1687'', ed., with Jane Ohlmeyer, Four Courts Press, Dublin, 1999. * ''Ireland And The Jacobite Cause, 1685-1766: A Fatal Attachment'', Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2001, 2004.

External links

* http://www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/RIProfiles.php?e_code=227053 * http://www.ulster.ac.uk/staff/e.ociardha.html * http://www.irchss.ie/ {{DEFAULTSORT:OCiardha, Eamonn 20th-century Irish historians 21st-century Irish historians Academics of Trinity College Dublin People from County Monaghan Living people Irish-language writers Year of birth missing (living people)