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Department of History

Thomas O'Connor Ph.D. (Paris)

portraitSenior Lecturer

Contact Details

Rhetoric 51
thomas.oconnor@nuim.ie

Research

Thomas O'Connor's main research interests are in Irish-European links in the early modern period, especially with France and Spain. He is currently preparing a book on Irish jansenists in the age of religious reform. It examines Irish involvement in religious change in Spanish Flanders, France, Rome and Ireland in the early seventeenth century. He co-directs, with Dr Marian Lyons, the Irish in Europe Project, founded in Maynooth in 1997 to promote the study of Irish migration to continental Europe in the early modern period. Since 2000 he has edited the Irish history sources journal Archivium Hibernicum.

His other research interests include the history of religion in Europe in the early modern period, the sixteenth century French religious wars and the selection, formation and deployment of Irish clergy in Ireland and Europe in the early modern period.

Publications

Select publications, 1990-2003

  • 1990 'Le viol légal des consciences' in Bernard Plongeron (ed.), L'autorité et les autoriés en régime de civilisation chrétienne, xiii (Paris, 1990), pp 47-58.
  • 1991 'Sous prétexte de ganrène…' in Bernard Plongeron (ed.) L'autorité et les autorités en régime de civilisation chrétienne XIV (Paris, 1991), pp 79-104.
  • 1992 'Respectez la règle' in Bernard Plongeron (ed.) L'autorité et les autorités en régime de civilisation chrétienne XV (Paris, 1992), pp 33-52.
  • 1993 'Théologie et Lumières chez Luke-Joseph Hooke 1714-1796' PhD université de Sorbonne-Paris IV (Paris, 1993).
  • 1995 An Irish Theologian in Enlightenment Europe: Luke Joseph Hooke 1714-96 (Dublin, 1995).
  • 1996 'Surviving the Civil Constitution of the Clergy: Luke Joseph Hooke's Revolutionary Experiences' in Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Irish an dá Chultúr xi, (1996), pp 129-145.
  • 1997 'A Theology Thesis defended by an Irish clerical student in Paris in 1739' in Archivium Hibernicum li (1997), pp3-15.
  • 1998 contributor to S.J. Connolly (ed.) The Oxford Companion to Irish History (Oxford, 1998).
  • 1999 'The Role of Irish Clerics in Paris University Politics 1730-40' in History of Universities xv (1997-9), pp193-226; 'Towards the Invention of the Irish Catholic natio: Thomas Messingham's Florilegium (1624)' in Irish Theological Quarterly lxiv, 2 (1999), pp 157-177; 'Religion and Identity - The Irish Dilemma' in The Furrow li, 11 (1999), pp 596-603;
  • 2000 ed., Archivium Hibernicum liv (2000; 'Custom, Authority and Tolerance in Irish Political Thought: David Rothe's Analecta Sacra et Mira (1616)' in Irish Theological Quarterly lxv, 2 (2000), pp 133-156: 'Thomas Messingham (c. 1575-1638?) and the seventeenth-century Church' in Ríocht na Midhe, xi (2000), pp 88-105; '1916: More Potent in Memory than in Act?' in Céide iv, 2 (2000), pp 22-25.
  • 2001 ed., Archivium Hibernicum lv (2001); 'The Irish in Europe 1580-1815: some historiographical remarks' in Thomas O'Connor (ed.) The Irish in Europe 1580-1815 (Dublin, 2001), pp 9-26; ed., The Irish in Europe 1580-1815 (Dublin, 2001); 'Irish migration to Spain and the formation of an Irish college network, 1589-1800' in Luc François and Ann Katherine Isaacs (eds) The Sea in European History (Pisa, 2001), pp109-23.
  • 2002 ed., Archivium Hibernicum lvi (2001); 'Diplomatic preparations for Kinsale' in Enrique García Hernán et al (eds) Irlanda y la monarquía hispánica: Kinsale 1601-2001: guerra, política, exilio y religión (Madrid, 2002), pp 137-50.
  • 2003 ed., Archivium Hibernicum lvii (2003); Thomas O'Connor and Marian Lyons (eds) Irish migrants in Europe after Kinsale, 1602-1820 (Dublin, 2003); 'A justification for foreign intervention in early modern Ireland: Peter Lombard's Commentarius (1600) in Thomas O'Connor and Marian Lyons (eds) Irish migrants in Europe after Kinsale 1602-1820 (Dublin, 2003), pp 14-31; 'The Irish College, Rome in the age of religious reform' in Albert MacDonnell et al (eds) The Irish College, Rome 1628-78: an early manuscript account of the foundation and development of the Ludovisian College of the Irish in Rome (Rome, 2003), pp 13-26.

  • 2004 ed. Archivium Hibernicum lviii (2004);

    ‘Marsh’s library and the Irish Catholic Tradition’ in Muriel McCarthy and Ann Simmons (eds) The Making of Marsh’s library: learning, politics and religion in Ireland, 1650-1750 (Dublin, 2004), pp 235-55;

    ‘Hugh O’Neill: free spirit, religious chameleon or ardent catholic?’ in Hiram Morgan (ed.) The Battle of Kinsale (Dublin, 2004), pp 59-72; 

    ‘John Callaghan’, ‘Peter Lombard’, ‘Luke Joseph Hooke’ and ‘John Sinnich’ in Thomas Duddy (ed.) Dictionary of Irish Philosophers (London, 2004), pp 70-2, 155- 9, 202-5, 305-9;

    with John G. Keating, Denis Clancy and Mary-Anne Lyons, ‘Problems with historical databases and the XLM solution’ in Archivium Hibernicum lviii (2004), pp  268-75;

    ‘Irish colleges abroad until the French Revolution’ in James S. Donnelly Jr. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture (2 vols, New York, 2004), vol. 1, pp 323-326.

    Fourteen articles in New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004)

  • 2005(ed.) Archivium Hibernicum lix (2005);An Irish Jansenist in seventeenth-century France: John Callaghan 1605-54 (Dublin, 2005)

  • 2006(ed.) Archivium Hibernicum lx (2006)

 

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