Retired as of 1 October, 2010

M.A., Ph.D. (N.U.I.)

 

Email: colm.lennon@nuim.ie

With effect from 1 October, I have retired from the department and the university.

I shall continue to have access to this email address (colm.lennon@nuim.ie) and hope to answer messages reasonably promptly. I shall continue to provide references for students with whose work I have been associated as supervisor or lecturer.

Colm Lennon

 

HY113: Ireland in the sixteenth century
HY258: Printers and readers: the culture of the printed book in the modern world
HY322: From medieval town to capital city: Dublin, 1450-1750
ES210: History of Europe, ancient, medieval and modern (transition from late medieval to early modern)
LS24: Case study in urban history: Dublin

Profile

Graduate of NUI: University College Dublin (BA 1970, MA 1975) and Maynooth (PhD 1987). Taught for a number of years at second level before joining the staff of the History Department at Maynooth in 1978. Subject of MA thesis: the writings of Richard Stanihurst (1547-1618) on Ireland, and of PhD thesis: the patriciate of Dublin in the Reformation (1560-1620). Both were published, one as Richard Stanihurst the Dubliner (Dublin, 1981) and the other as The lords of Dublin the age of Reformation (Dublin, 1989). Arising out of the teaching of Tudor Irish history courses, published a textbook, Sixteenth-century Ireland: the incomplete conquest in 1994. Research has continued in the fields of urban history, the social history of religion during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, and the history of confraternities in Ireland and elsewhere (see list of publications). Was a Research Fellow at the Folger Institute in Washington, DC, in 1998. Received a Government of Ireland Senior Research Fellowship in 2002-2003 to study the history of early modern confraternities in Ireland. From 2005 to 2008 was Principal Investigator on a project researching the history of Irish confraternities and religious associations, 1775-1965, funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Elected to membership of the Royal Irish Academy in 2007. Latest major publication is Irish Historic Towns Atlas: Dublin, Part II, 1610-1756 (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 2008).

Research

Social, cultural and religious history of late medieval and early modern Ireland; Irish Reformation and Counter-Reformation studies; history of Dublin and other urban communities; history of confraternities in Ireland and elsewhere since the late middle ages.

Publications

1975
'Recusancy and the Dublin Stanyhursts’ in Archivium Hibernicum, xxxiii (1975), pp 101-110

1978
‘Richard Stanihurst (1547-1618) and Old English identity’ in Irish Historical Studies, xxi (1978), pp 121-43

1979
‘Reform ideas and cultural resources in the inner Pale in the mid-sixteenth century’ in Stair, ii (1979), pp 3-10

1981
Richard Stanihurst the Dubliner (Dublin, 1981)

1983
‘Civic life and religion in early seventeenth Dublin’ in Archivium Hibernicum, xxxviii (1983), pp 14-25

1986
‘The Counter-Reformation in Ireland, 1542-1641’ in C. Brady and R. Gillespie (ed.), Natives and newcomers: essays on the making of Irish colonial society, 1534-1641 (Dublin, 1986), pp 75-92

1987
‘Civic privilege and state power in Dublin, 1534-1613’ in Rostrum (1987), pp 107-14

‘Spain and Europe, 1598-1618’ in Stair, x (1987), pp 3-7

‘Clontarf in the 1860s: seaside resort or residential suburb?’ in Clontarf Annual (1987), pp 27-8

1988
‘“The beauty and eye of Ireland”: the sixteenth century’ in Art Cosgrove (ed.), Dublin through the ages (Dublin, 1988), pp 42-62

‘The great explosion in Dublin in 1597’ in Dublin Historical Record, xlii (1988), pp 7-20

1989
The lords of Dublin in the age of Reformation (Dublin, 1989)

‘The rise of recusancy among the Dublin patricians, 1580-1613’ in W.J. Sheils and D. Wood (ed.), The churches, Ireland and the Irish: Studies in church history, xxv (Oxford, 1989), pp 123-32

1990
(with R.V. Comerford, Mary Cullen and J.R. Hill), Religion, conflict and coexistence in Ireland: Essays in honour of Monsignor Patrick J. Corish (Dublin, 1990)

‘The chantries in the Irish Reformation: the case of St Anne’s guild, Dublin, 1550-1630’ in R.V. Comerford, Mary Cullen, J.R. Hill and Colm Lennon (ed.), Religion, conflict and coexistence in Ireland: Essays in honour of Monsignor Patrick J. Corish (Dublin, 1990), pp 6-25

1991
‘The sixteenth century’ in Réamoinn Ó Muirí (ed.), Irish church history today (Armagh, 1991), pp 27-41

1992
‘“The bowels of the city’s bounty”: the municipality of Dublin and the foundation of Trinity College’ in Long Room, 37 (1992), pp 10-1

1994
Sixteenth-century Ireland: the incomplete conquest (Dublin, 1994)

‘The foundation charter of St Sythe’s guild, Dublin, 1476’ in Archivium Hibernicum, xlviii (1994), pp 3-12

1995
‘The survival of the confraternities in post-Reformation Dublin’ in Confraternitas, 6 (1995), pp 5-12

‘Dublin’s great explosion of 1597’ in History Ireland, iii (1995), pp 29-35

1996
‘Edmund Campion’s Histories of Ireland and reform in Tudor Ireland’ in Thomas McCoog (ed.), The reckoned expense: Edmund Campion and the early English Jesuits (Woodbridge, 1996), pp 67-84

1997
‘Primate Richard Creagh and the beginnings of the Irish Counter-Reformation’ in Archivium Hibernicum, li (1997)

'Reformation to Restoration’ in Sean Duffy (ed.), An atlas of Irish history (Dublin, 1997)

1998
(edited, with Raymond Refaussé), The registers of Christ Church cathedral, Dublin (Dublin, 1998)

(edited, with James Murray), Dublin city franchise roll, 1468-1512 (Dublin, 1998)

1999
(edited, with J.R. Hill), Luxury and austerity: Historical Studies XXII (Dublin, 1999)

‘Political thought of Irish Counter-Reformation churchmen: the testimony of the “Analecta” of Bishop David Rothe’ in Hiram Morgan (ed.), Irish political ideology, 1541-1641 (Dublin, 1999)

‘Education and religious identity in early modern Ireland’ in Pedagogica Historica: International Journal of the history of education: supplementary series, v (Ghent, 1999).

‘Dives and Lazarus in sixteenth century Ireland’ in J.R. Hill and Colm Lennon (ed.), Luxury and austerity: Historical Studies XXII (Dublin, 1999)

2000
An Irish prisoner of conscience of the Tudor era: Archbishop Richard Creagh of Armagh, 1523-86 (Dublin, 2000)

The urban patriciates of early modern Ireland: a case-study of Limerick. (NUI O'Donnell lecture (1999), Dublin, 2000)

‘Mass in the manor house: the Counter-Reformation in Dublin’ in J. Kelly and D. Keogh (eds), History of the Catholic diocese of Dublin (Dublin, 2000), pp 112-26

'"A dangerous man to be among the Irish": Archbishop Richard Creagh and the early Irish Counter-Reformation' in History Ireland, 8 (2000), pp 27-31

'The beatified martyrs of Ireland: Francis Taylor' in Irish Theological Quarterly, 65 (2000), pp 353-61

2001
‘Le guerre di religione in Irlanda: colonizzazioni protestanti e martiri della Chiesa cattolica’ in Luciano Vaccaro and Carlo Maria Pellizzi (ed.), Storia dell’Irlanda (Gazzada, 2001), pp 195-212

‘The changing face of Dublin, 1550-1750’ in Peter Clark and Raymond Gillespie (ed.), Two capitals: London and Dublin, 1500-1840 (Oxford, 2001), pp 149-66

‘The Nugent family and the diocese of Kilmore in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries’ in Breifne, x (2001), pp 360-74

‘Irish confraternities, 1400-1700’ in Confraternitas, 12 (2001), pp 36-9

2002
‘Richard Stanihurst’s “Spanish Catholicism”: ideology and diplomacy in Brussels and Madrid’ in Enrique García Hernán, Miguel Ángel de Bunes, Óscar Recio Morales and Bernardo J. García García (ed.), Irland y la monarcquía Hispánica: Kinsale 1601-2001. Guerra, política, exilio y religion (Madrid, 2002), pp 75-88

‘Religious wars in Ireland: plantations and martyrs of the Catholic church’ in Brendan Bradshaw and Dáire Keogh (ed.), Christianity in Ireland: revisiting the story (Dublin, 2002), pp 86-95

‘The shaping of a lay community in the Church of Ireland, 1558-1640’ in Raymond Gillespie and W.G. Neely (ed.), The laity and the Church of Ireland, 1000-2000: all sorts and conditions (Dublin, 2002), pp 49-69

2003
Five articles in Brian Lalor (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Ireland (Dublin, 2003), viz. Counter-Reformation, p. 243, martyrs, p. 699, Reformation, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, pp 919-20, Reformation, seventeenth to twenty-first centuries, pp 920-1, Rome and Ireland, p. 941

‘Richard Stanihurst (1547-1618)’ in Edward A. Malone (ed.), Dictionary of literary biography: volume 281: British rhetoricians and logicians, 1500-1660 (Farmington Hills, Ml, USA, 2003), pp 296-303

'Taking sides: the emergence of Irish catholic ideology’ in Vincent P. Carey and Ute Lotz-Heumann (ed.), Taking sides? Colonial and confessional mentalités in early modern Ireland (Dublin, 2003), pp 78-93

‘Des Irlandais écartelés entre le pape et la reine’ in Histoire du Christianisme, 15 (Mars, 2003), pp 26-30

2004
James S. Donnelly (ed.), Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture (Thomson, Gale, Farmington Hills, Ml, 2004): Council of Trent and the Catholic mission, I, 111-11; Education, 1500-1690, I, 184-6; English political and religious policies, responses to (1534-1690), I, 218-23; Lombard, Peter, I, 408; Old English, I, 500-02

2005
Sixteenth-century Ireland: the incomplete conquest (2nd edition, Dublin, 2005)

2006
(with Ciaran Diamond) ‘The ministry of the Church of Ireland, 1536-1636’ in T.C. Barnard and W.G. Neely (ed.), The clergy of the Church of Ireland, 1000-2000: messengers, watchmen and stewards (Dublin, 2006), pp 44-58

‘The print trade, 1550 – 1700’ in Raymond Gillespie and Andrew Hadfield (ed.), The Oxford history of the Irish book: Volume III The Irish book in English, 1550 – 1800 (Oxford, 2006), pp 63-73

‘The print trade, 1700 – 1800’ in Raymond Gillespie and Andrew Hadfield (ed.), The Oxford history of the Irish book: Volume III The Irish book in English, 1550 – 1800 (Oxford, 2006), pp 74-90

‘The dawn of the Reformation in Ireland’ in John R. Bartlett and Stuart D. Kinsella (ed.), Two thousand years of Christianity (Dublin, 2006), pp 105-18

‘Recusancy and Counter-Reformation’ in John R. Bartlett and Stuart D. Kinsella (ed.), Two thousand years of Christianity (Dublin, 2006), pp 119- 132

‘The Book of Obits of Christ Church cathedral, Dublin’ in Raymond Gillespie and Raymond Refaussé (ed.), The medieval manuscripts of Christ Church cathedral, Dublin (Dublin, 2006), pp 163-82

‘The Fitzgeralds of Kildare and the building of a dynastic image, 1500-1630’ in William Nolan and Thomas McGrath (ed.), Kildare: history and society: interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county (Dublin, 2006), pp 195-212

‘The confraternities and cultural duality in Ireland, 1450-1550’ in Christopher Black and Pamela Gravestock (ed.), Early modern confraternities in Europe and the Americas: international and interdisciplinary perspectives (London, 2006), pp 35-52

‘Fraternity and community in early modern Dublin’ in Robert Armstrong and Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin (ed.), Community in early modern Ireland (Dublin, 2006), pp 167–178

‘Bishops in contention: secular and ecclesiastical politics in later sixteenth-century Clogher’ in Clogher Record, xx (2006), pp 1-12

2007
‘Edmund Campion’s Histories of Ireland and reform in Tudor Ireland’ in Thomas McCoog (ed.), The reckoned expense: Edmund Campion and the early English Jesuits (Rome, 2007), pp 75-96

‘Pedagogy and reform: the influence of Peter White on Irish scholarship in the Renaissance’ in Thomas Herron and Michael Potterton (ed.), Ireland in the Renaissance, c.540-1660 (Dublin, 2007), pp 43-51

2008
‘The parish fraternities of County Meath’ in Ríocht na Midhe, xix (2008), pp 85-101

‘Ossory and the Reformation: the testimony of Carrigan’s History and antiquities’ in Ossory, Laois and Leinster, iii (2008), pp 73-86

Irish Historic Towns Atlas No. 19: Dublin, Part II, 1610-1756 (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 2008)

2009
‘The medieval town in the early modern city: attitudes to Dublin’s immediate past in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries’ in John Bradley, Alan J. Fletcher and Anngret Simms (eds), Dublin in the medieval world: studies in honour of Howard B. Clarke (Dublin, 2009), pp 435-47.

‘From Speed to Rocque: the development of early modern Dublin’ in Dublin Historical Record, lxii (2009), pp 2-15.

‘The dissolution to the foundation of St Anthony’s College, Louvain, 1534-1607’ in Edel Breathnach, Joseph MacMahon and John McCafferty (eds), The Irish Franciscans, 1534-1990 (Dublin, 2009), pp 3-26

‘The Richard Stanihurst-Justus Lipsius friendship: scholarship and religion under Spanish Habsburg patronage in the late sixteenth century’ in Jason Harris and Keith Sidwell (eds), Making Ireland Roman: Irish neo-Latin writers and the republic of letters (Cork, 2009), pp 48-58

Dublin, 1610-1756: the making of the early modern city (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 2009)

‘Religious and social change in early modern Limerick: the testimony of the Sexton family papers’ in Liam Irwin, Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh and Matthew Potter (eds), Limerick: history and society: interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county (Dublin, 2009), pp 113-128

2010
Dublin’s civic buildings in the early modern period: the Sir John T. Gilbert commemorative lecture, 2009 (Dublin City Public Libraries, Dublin, 2010)