Professor S. Connolly

Sean Connolly is Professor of Irish History at the Queen’s University, Belfast. He is a graduate of University College, Dublin, and did his doctoral work at the University of Ulster, where he also lectured before coming to Queen’s in 1996. His books include Priests and People in Pre-Famine Ireland 1780-1845 (1981), Religion, Law and Power: The Making of Protestant Ireland 1660-1760 (1992), Contested Island: Ireland 1460-1630 (2007) and Divided Kingdom: Ireland 1630-1800 (2008). He was general editor of The Oxford Companion to Irish History (1998) and is joint editor of the journal Irish Economic & Social History. His current research is on civic culture and urban development in nineteenth-century Belfast.
 

Dr Bernadette Cunningham

Dr Bernadette Cunningham is president of the Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement, 2010-13 (www.irishsettlement.ie), and honorary editor of Irish History Online, 2009- (www.irishhistoryonline.ie). She is deputy librarian at the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin (www.ria.ie).
Her research interests are in early modern Irish culture and history, particularly the Irish manuscript heritage. Her published books include The Annals of the Four Masters: Irish history, politics and society in the early seventeenth century (Dublin, 2010); Calendar of state papers Ireland, Tudor period, 1568-1571 (Dublin, 2010); Calendar of state papers Ireland, Tudor period, 1566-1567 (Dublin, 2009); with Siobhán Fitzpatrick, eds, Treasures of the Royal Irish Academy library (Dublin, 2009); O’Donnell histories: Donegal and the Annals of the Four Masters (Rathmullan, 2007); with Edel Bhreathnach, eds, Writing Irish history: the Four Masters and their world (Dublin, 2007); with Raymond Gillespie, Stories from Gaelic Ireland: microhistories from the sixteenth-century Irish annals (Dublin, 2003); The world of Geoffrey Keating: history, myth and religion in seventeenth century Ireland (Dublin, 2000); with Máire Kennedy, eds, The experience of reading: Irish historical perspectives (Dublin, 1999).
For other publications by Bernadette Cunningham see www.irishhistoryonline.ie

Professor David Hayton

Professor David Hayton, MRIA is Professor of Early Modern Irish and British History at Queen’s University Belfast, where he served as Head of the School of History and Anthropology at Queen’s between 2004 and 2010. He was formerly on the staff of the History of Parliament Trust, and edited the volume of the History covering the British House of Commons in the period 1690–1715. He has written widely on the political and religious history of Ireland in the later seventeenth centuries, and a number of his essays were gathered together in the volume Ruling Ireland, 1685–1742: politics, politicians and parties ((2004). He has also published editions of several historical and literary texts and has edited three major collections of essays, the most recent being The eighteenth-century composite state: representative institutions in Ireland and Europe 1690–1800 (2010). From 1997 until 2007 he was joint-editor of Irish Historical Studies. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and in 2008 was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. For a full biography see http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofHistoryandAnthropology/Staff/AcademicStaff/ProfessorDavidHayton/

Dr Janice Holmes

Dr Janice Holmes is a Staff Tutor and Lecturer in History with the Open University. Based in Belfast, she manages the teaching of the OUs Arts courses in Ireland. She is a historian of nineteenth and twentieth-century Irish religion with a particular interest in Protestantism. Her research interests include the Ulster revival of 1859, women and religion (female preaching and deaconesses), evangelistic activity and the culture and architecture of Ulster’s ‘mission halls’. She has published Religious revivals in Britain and Ireland, 1859-1905 (2000) as well as articles in the Proceedings of the RIA and other edited collections. In 2006 she curated, in partnership with the Causeway Museum Service, a travelling exhibition displaying the material culture of evangelism titled ‘Saved or Lost: Protestant evangelism in Ulster since 1790’. She is currently President of the Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies and a member of the advisory board for Irish Historical Studies.

Professor Edward James

Professor Edward James is Professor of Medieval History at University College Dublin, and currently (2009-2012) Head of the UCD School of History and Archives. He has previously taught at York and at Reading; he also held a senior research fellowship at Rutgers, from 2001 to 2003. He was Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at York from 1990 to 1995. His research has concentrated on the history and archaeology of early medieval France and Britain, and on the history of science fiction and fantasy. His books include The Merovingian Archaeology of South-West Gaul (1977), The Origins of France (1982), The Franks (1988), Britain in the First Millennium (2000) and Europe's Barbarians, AD 200-600 (2009). He was a founding editor of the journal Early Medieval History, and edited Foundation, Europe's only journal of science fiction criticism, between 1986 and 2001. He has also written Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century (1994) and has co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (1993), which won a Hugo Award in 1995. For full details, see http://www.ucd.ie/historyarchives/staff/professoredwardjames/

Dr Charles Ivar McGrath

Dr Charles Ivar McGrath is a lecturer in the School of History and Archives at UCD. He is the author of The Making of the Eighteenth-Century Irish Constitution: Government, Parliament and the Revenue, 1692-1714 (Dublin, 2000), and editor (with Michael Brown and Thomas Power) of Converts and Conversion in Ireland, 1650-1850 (Dublin, 2005), (with Chris Fauske) of Money, Power, and Print: Interdisciplinary Studies on the Financial Revolution in the British Isles (Newark, 2008), and (with James Kelly and John McCafferty) of People, Politics and Power: Essays on Irish History 1660-1850 in Honour of James I. McGuire (Dublin, 2009). He has published articles in English Historical Review, Irish Historical Studies, Eighteenth-Century Ireland and Parliamentary History, as well as essays and contributions in various edited collections and reference works. His research interests lie in the areas of early modern Ireland and Britain; the British Empire; politics, parliament, legislation and government; religion; public finance, taxation, national debt and credit; chartered trading companies and monopolies; the Hudson’s Bay
Company. Outside of academia, he spent three years serving as a private soldier in the Irish army including six months with UNIFIL in 1984-5, and eighteenth months in the civil service in London in 1992-3. See http://www.ucd.ie/historyarchives/staff/charlesivarmcgrath/home/