Kayoko Yukimura

PhD Student

yukimurk@tcd.ie

Biography

I am Japanese and studied Western history at Kobe University, Japan (BA, 2004; MA, 2007). I started my PhD at Trinity in September 2009 under the supervision of David Dickson.

Research

‘The defence of trade in Irish maritime communities after the Jacobite war, 1692-1713’.
When I started my research, I came across a memoir by a Huguenot, Jacques Fontaine, who lived in West Cork after the Jacobite war. I was fascinated by his dramatic skirmish against French privateers, who came to Ireland with Irishmen in order to fight the locally powerful Huguenot. In an attempt to understand this mystery, I am researching the ways in which Irish maritime communities reacted to these forces (e.g. local Protestant gentry in south-west Ireland, merchants engaged in Irish trade, Irish customs offices, and the vice-admiralty of Kinsale). I will consider the ways in which maritime trade was protected from 1692 to 1713, in the context of long-term socio-economic trends in the European and Atlantic world.

I am also interested in Irish maritime communities in France, which supplied labour and capital to French privateers between 1692 and 1713. In the future, I plan to expand my project by carrying out further research on these communities in France. I am open to joint comparative research projects with other historians who are working on maritime history in other parts of the world.

Papers

• Yukimura, K. ‘The Activities of Irish Immigrants in French Port City after the Williamite War: the Continuity with their Home Country’ at the International Symposium of the Port Cities Research Centre at Sun Yat-Sen University, China (Dec 2007)

Published research articles

• ‘Wyche Documents (National Archives of Ireland) as Source Material’, Journal of Port Cities Studies 7 (2012), 53-63. (Japanese)
• ‘Academic Trend: The Development of Studies about Huguenots in early modern Ireland and its Impact on Irish Historiography’, Shigaku Nenpo 24 (2009), 55-68. (Japanese)
• ‘Irish Immigration of a French Port City in Early Modern Period: a Study on St. Malo Privateering after the Williamite War’, Journal of Port Cities Studies 3 (2008), 115-127. (Japanese)