The first Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference took place in UCD in 2011 and Tudor & Stuart Ireland organises a major two-day interdisciplinary conference in August each year, which provides opportunities for scholars at all stages of their career to present and discuss their research on Ireland or the Irish abroad during the Tudor & Stuart periods. 

You can access an archive of more than 250 podcasts recorded at Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conferences on History Hub's website as well as on Apple podcasts, Soundcloud and Spotify.

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Tudor and Stuart Ireland

This series features recordings of papers from the 2014 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference which took place from August 29-30 2014 in NUI Maynooth. 

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The conference was generously supported by UCD School of History and Archives, UCD Research, Marsh's Library, Graduate Studies at NUI Maynooth, and the Department of History at NUI Maynooth. 28 papers were recorded for podcasting by Real Smart Media (https://soundcloud.com/real-smart-media) for Tudor and Stuart Ireland. The podcast series is in association with History Hub.ie.

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Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference 2014

In this Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference podcast, a recording of a paper by Evan Bourke from Maynooth University entitled 'An Exploration of the Poet-Patron relationship in Irish Bardic Poetry ca. 1541 – ca. 1660'.

Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference
The 11th Annual Tudor & Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference took place at Maynooth University on 18 & 19 August 2023.

The conference was generously supported by the MACMORRIS Project; the Irish Research Council; The Department of English, Maynooth University; The Arts and Humanities Institute, Maynooth University; and, Marsh’s Library.

As in previous years, the Conference was recorded for podcasting by Real Smart Media in association with History Hub. You can access the archive of Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference podcasts on History Hub's website - History Hub.ie - as well as on Apple podcasts, Soundcloud and Spotify.

https://historyhub.ie/tudor-and-stuart-ireland-conference

Evan Bourke - An Exploration of the Poet-Patron relationship in Irish Bardic Poetry c1541–c1660

In this Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference podcast, a recording of a paper by Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh from Trinity College Dublin entitled 'Poems on the Uí Chaoimh'.

Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference
The 11th Annual Tudor & Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference took place at Maynooth University on 18 & 19 August 2023.

The conference was generously supported by the MACMORRIS Project; the Irish Research Council; The Department of English, Maynooth University; The Arts and Humanities Institute, Maynooth University; and, Marsh’s Library.

As in previous years, the Conference was recorded for podcasting by Real Smart Media in association with History Hub. You can access the archive of Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference podcasts on History Hub's website - History Hub.ie - as well as on Apple podcasts, Soundcloud and Spotify.

https://historyhub.ie/tudor-and-stuart-ireland-conference

Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh - Poems on the Uí Chaoimh

In this Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference podcast, a conversation about the MACMORRIS Project between Brendan Kane from University of Connecticut and Pat Palmer from Maynooth University, who is Principal Investigator on MACMORRIS.

Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference
The 11th Annual Tudor & Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference took place at Maynooth University on 18 & 19 August 2023.

The conference was generously supported by the MACMORRIS Project; the Irish Research Council; The Department of English, Maynooth University; The Arts and Humanities Institute, Maynooth University; and, Marsh’s Library.

As in previous years, the Conference was recorded for podcasting by Real Smart Media in association with History Hub. You can access the archive of Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference podcasts on History Hub's website - History Hub.ie - as well as on Apple podcasts, Soundcloud and Spotify.

https://historyhub.ie/tudor-and-stuart-ireland-conference

Pat Palmer in conversation with Brendan Kane about MACMORRIS (Live Podcast Recording)

In this Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference podcast, a recording of a paper Keith Pluymers from Illinois State University. Keith's paper was entitled 'Memories of Early Modern Deforestation and the Making of Modern Irish Environmentalism'. Keith was introduced by Stephen O'Neill from Maynooth University.

Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference
The 11th Annual Tudor & Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference took place at Maynooth University on 18 & 19 August 2023.

The conference was generously supported by the MACMORRIS Project; the Irish Research Council; The Department of English, Maynooth University; The Arts and Humanities Institute, Maynooth University; and, Marsh’s Library.

As in previous years, the Conference was recorded for podcasting by Real Smart Media in association with History Hub. You can access the archive of Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference podcasts on History Hub's website - History Hub.ie - as well as on Apple podcasts, Soundcloud and Spotify.

https://historyhub.ie/tudor-and-stuart-ireland-conference

Keith Pluymers - Memories of Early Modern Deforestation and Making of Modern Irish Environmentalism

In this Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference podcast, a recording of the first conference plenary which was given by Gillian Wright from the University of Birmingham. Gillian's paper was entitled 'Orrery the Poet'. 

Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference
The 11th Annual Tudor & Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference took place at Maynooth University on 18 & 19 August 2023.

The conference was generously supported by the MACMORRIS Project; the Irish Research Council; The Department of English, Maynooth University; The Arts and Humanities Institute, Maynooth University; and, Marsh’s Library.

As in previous years, the Conference was recorded for podcasting by Real Smart Media in association with History Hub. You can access the archive of Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference podcasts on History Hub's website - History Hub.ie - as well as on Apple podcasts, Soundcloud and Spotify.

https://historyhub.ie/tudor-and-stuart-ireland-conference

Gillian Wright - Orrery the Poet

Recording of a paper by Prof Raymond Pierre Hylton (Virginia Union University) and Dr Marie Leoutre (National Library of Ireland) at the 2014 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference.

About the paper: Exile to integration - Dublin as a paradigm for the Huguenots experience in Ireland.

With the Huguenots, who made up the largest group of non-Anglophone immigrants to Ireland during the Early Modern era, it was always a question of identity. The co-presenters of this paper seek to investigate the myths and realities behind the perspectives on selfhood held by Huguenots, and how they might have been viewed by others. From 1662 - c.1720 thousands of Huguenots travelled to and settled in Ireland, establishing population clusters. By far, the largest and most significant of these French Protestant concentrations was in Dublin. But what the Huguenots exactly did establish there cannot be neatly categorized, nor can it be it simply encompassed under conventional terminology. “Enclave”? “colony”?, “settlement”? “community”? “diaspora”?: all fall short of capturing the totality, and even the essence, of the Huguenot presence there.

Integral to the story of the Huguenots are the corrosive forces of integration and assimilation. The question that was posed during Dublin Tercentenary Conference on the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1985: “When did a Huguenot cease to be a Huguenot?”, remains unanswered. This paper will attempt to shed new light as to what stage in the assimilatory process the transformation might have occurred; examine the Huguenot population in its three major “waves” of arrival, the experiences of paradigmatic families; and measure the impact of intra-religious dissonance and the pivotal role played by the Earl of Galway.

The 2014 Tudor and Stuart Ireland conference was generously supported by UCD School of History and Archives, UCD Research, Marsh's Library, Graduate Studies at NUI Maynooth, and the Department of History at NUI Maynooth. 

Recorded for podcasting by Real Smart Media (https://soundcloud.com/real-smart-media) for History Hub.

Prof Raymond Pierre Hylton & Dr Marie Leoutre. Dublin - paradigm for Huguenots experience in Ireland

Recording of a paper by Prof. Raymond Gillespie (National University of Ireland, Maynooth) at the 2014 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference.

About the paper: For the honour of the city: The town hall in early modern Ireland.

One of the most significant features of early modern Ireland was its rapid urbanisation. By 1700 Ireland had some 117 corporate towns, many of which had not existed a century earlier and had been created to meet the parliamentary electoral needs of the early seventeenth century. Both the older corporations and the new creations played important economic and political roles in the sixteenth and seventeenth century but even more significant was their social roles. Urban charters created corporate identities in a world where other social bonds had been fragmented by migration or confessional division. Urban corporate identities drew people together as part of a process of making a new society. Part of this process was the symbols of the town, such as maces, swords or other civic regalia, and the most important symbol was the construction of a town hall. Town halls in the older town symbolised urban rights while their very slow evolution in the towns created by charter after 1613 reveals much of the problems of creating an urban society by charter from above. By the late seventeen century both the newer and older corporations were less distinctive as new town halls portrayed a sense of cohesion, mirroring the evolution of Irish society generally. This paper looks at how those buildings reflected the society that made them.

The 2014 Tudor and Stuart Ireland conference was generously supported by UCD School of History and Archives, UCD Research, Marsh's Library, Graduate Studies at NUI Maynooth, and the Department of History at NUI Maynooth.

Recorded for podcasting by Real Smart Media (https://soundcloud.com/real-smart-media) for History Hub.

Prof. Raymond Gillespie. For the honour of the city: The town hall in early modern Ireland

Recording of a paper by Prof. Colm Lennon (NUI Maynooth) at the 2014 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference.

About the paper: Protestant-Catholic relations in seventeenth-century Ireland: A case study of St Audoen’s parish, Dublin

The recent publication of the vestry books of St Audoen’s, Dublin, affords us an opportunity to review the state of religious and civic relations between the Protestant and Catholic communities in this central city parish in the seventeenth century. In this context, I wish to focus on interaction between the confessional groups in the field of welfare and poor relief, as revealed in the ‘white book’ of the fraternity of St Anne (1655-1688). The long history of this wealthy devotional and charitable association within the parish acts as a barometer of the religious climate in late medieval and early modern Dublin. This case study provides a snapshot of the older associational form of communal bridging under pressure at a time of demographic and political change from the 1650s to the 1680s. In examining how the memory of the dead was invoked by their descendants, who looked to the fraternity for the continuation of their ‘pious uses and greater charity’, we observe a real sense of the Christian communion of the living and the dead, stretching across the generations and transcending confessional division. Yet the citizens’ dual role as parish activists and fraternity brothers and sisters was becoming unsustainable, as religious ideology became central to political acceptability in the 1680s and beyond.  

The 2014 Tudor and Stuart Ireland conference was generously supported by UCD School of History and Archives, UCD Research, Marsh's Library, Graduate Studies at NUI Maynooth, and the Department of History at NUI Maynooth.

Recorded for podcasting by Real Smart Media (https://soundcloud.com/real-smart-media) for History Hub.

Prof. Colm Lennon. Protestant-Catholic relations in seventeenth-century Ireland: A case study

Recording of a paper by Dr Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin (University College Dublin) at the 2014 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference.

About the paper: Early modern Catholicism in the northern Netherlands, England and Ireland: some points of comparison and contrast.

This paper offers a brief investigation of the evolution of Catholicism in three societies, England, where by the end of Elizabeth's reign it retained significant numbers of adherents among the aristocracy but had largely lost the battle for the hearts and minds of the general population; Ireland, the only area of the Atlantic archipelago where Catholicism survived the sixteenth century and beyond as the majority confession, and the Netherlands where a significant Catholic population, reorganized in the course of 1590s and the first decades of the seventeenth century, was in existence at the end of the great Spanish-Dutch conflict in 1648. In addition to their geographical location on the western margins of Catholic Europe, the principal factor linking these three areas is their shared inheritance of state hostility and the existence of a favoured non-Catholic church establishment which posed a considerable challenge to the possibilities of survival and growth of Catholicism. However, despite this basic commonality, the difference in the self-understanding of the favoured confession and the varying extents of state power in enforcing programmes of coercion were critical factors in the differing evolution of Catholicism in the three areas.

The 2014 Tudor and Stuart Ireland conference was generously supported by UCD School of History and Archives, UCD Research, Marsh's Library, Graduate Studies at NUI Maynooth, and the Department of History at NUI Maynooth.

Recorded for podcasting by Real Smart Media (https://soundcloud.com/real-smart-media) for History Hub.

Dr Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin. Early modern Catholicism in the northern Netherlands, England and Ireland

Recording of a plenary address by Professor Alan Ford (Nottingham University) at the 2014 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference - ‘Love God and hate the Pope’: (un)changing Protestant attitudes towards Catholicism 1600-2000.

The 2014 Tudor and Stuart Ireland conference was generously supported by UCD School of History and Archives, UCD Research, Marsh's Library, Graduate Studies at NUI Maynooth, and the Department of History at NUI Maynooth.

Recorded for podcasting by Real Smart Media (https://soundcloud.com/real-smart-media) for History Hub.

Prof. Alan Ford. (un)changing Protestant attitudes towards Catholicism 1600-2000

Recording of a plenary address by Professor John McCafferty (University College Dublin) at the 2014 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference - A single witness: Ireland and Europe through the eyes of a small man with a big nose.

This paper examines two manuscripts by Nicholas Archbold (b. 1588/89, d. 1650) a Capuchin priest from Shankill, County Dublin. While Archbold’s Evangelicall fruict of the Seraphical Franciscan Order and a Historie of the Capuchins in Ireland are, in formal terms, a chronicle and a history they actually constitute a lengthy (c.100,000 word) reflection on Ireland and the world as seen through the eyes of one self-confessed small man with a big nose.

These two texts are brimful of all details about the Capuchin missions in the Pale, the Rhineland and northern France and feature frequent visions, miracles and diabolical possessions. They are susceptible to a micro-historical approach which seeks to explore big issues using strictly delimited sources. It is possible to see, via Archbold’s prose, the painful process of Irish Catholic identity formation, contemporary European views of the Irish and to discern how the huge uncertainties and energies unleashed by Luther’s reformation still swirled about souls over a hundred years later.

Archbold is worth hearing just for the ways he uses words and understands language. His opinions, quips and translations are just as arresting and fresh as they were when he committed them to paper almost four hundred years ago.

The 2014 Tudor and Stuart Ireland conference was generously supported by UCD School of History and Archives, UCD Research, Marsh's Library, Graduate Studies at NUI Maynooth, and the Department of History at NUI Maynooth.

Recorded for podcasting by Real Smart Media (https://soundcloud.com/real-smart-media) for History Hub.

Prof. John McCafferty. Ireland and Europe through the eyes of a small man with a big nose

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