Éamonn Ó Ciardha is an Irish historian and writer.

Biography

Ó Ciardha is a native of Scotshouse, a village in the

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of Dartree in the west of

County Monaghan County Monaghan ( ; ) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Ulster and is part of Border Region, Border strategic planning area of the Northern and Western Region. It is named after the town ...

. Townlands.ie: Barony of Dartree, Co. Monaghan. https://www.townlands.ie/monaghan/dartree/ He has an M.A. from the

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(NUI) and a PhD from

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. His areas of interest are 17th- and 18th-century Irish history, focusing on

Jacobitism Jacobitism was a political ideology advocating the restoration of the senior line of the House of Stuart to the Monarchy of the United Kingdom, British throne. When James II of England chose exile after the November 1688 Glorious Revolution, ...

, law, disorder and

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sources for the era. Formerly a visiting professor 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; ; ND) is a Private university, private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, United States. Founded in 1842 by members of the Congregation of Holy Cross, a Cathol ...

, 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 Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Univ ...

(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'', 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 an individual who supports a political philosophy known as Toryism, based on a British version of traditionalist conservatism which upholds the established social order as it has evolved through the history of Great Britain. The To ...

'' 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: 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 Four Courts Press is an independent Irish academic publishing house, with its office at Malpas Street, Dublin 8, Ireland. Founded in 1970 by Michael Adams, who died in February 2009, its early publications were primarily theological, notably ...

, 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)