Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Sir John Gilbert: historian of the Irish bourgeoisie in, editor(s)Salvador Ryan and Clodagh Tait , Religion and politics in urban Ireland, c. 1500 - c. 1750, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2016, pp249 - 274, [Ciaran Brady]
Emboldening the weak: the early fiction of James Anthony Froude in, editor(s)Daragh Downws and Trish Ferguson , Victorian Fiction Beyond the Canon, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp45 - 70, [Ciaran Brady]
The Myth of 'Silken Thomas' in, editor(s)Peter Crooks and Sean Duffy , The Geraldines and Medieval Ireland: the making of a myth, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2016, pp379 - 398, [Ciaran Brady]
An Old Kind of History: the Anglo-Irish writing of Iirish History, 1840 - 1910 in, editor(s)Carine Berberi and Martine Pelletier , Ireland: Authority and Crisis, Bern, Peter Lang, 2015, pp247 - 286, [Ciaran Brady]
Ciaran Brady, Shane O'Neill (revised and expanded edition), 2nd edition, Dublin, UCD Press, 2015, i - 111pp
Coming into the weigh-house: Elizabeth I and the government of Ireland in, editor(s)Brendan Kane and Valerie McGowan-Doyle , Elizabeth I and Ireland, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp113 - 141, [Ciaran Brady]
Ciaran Brady, James Anthony Froude: and intellectual biography of a Victorian prophet, 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014, xvi +500pp
'Robin Dudley Edwards and the uses of Catholic nationalism' in, editor(s)Neil Evans and Huw Pryce. , Writing a Small Nation's Past: Wales in Comparative Perspective, 1850-1950, Farnham, Ashgate, 2013, pp283 - 299, [Ciaran Brady]
Ciaran Brady, James Anthony Froude: an intellectual biography of a Victorian prophet, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013, xvi + 500pp
'Ireland : In the shadow of the fond abuser' in, editor(s)Peter Furtado , Histories of Nations: how their identities were forged, London, Thames and Hudson, 2012, pp70 - 82, [Ciaran Brady]
'Viceroys? The Irish chief governors, 1541-1641' in, editor(s)Peter Gray and Olwen Purdue , The Irish Lord Lieutenancy, c1541-1922, Dublin, UCD Press, 2012, pp15 - 42, [Ciaran Brady]
Arrested development: Competing Histories and the formation of the Irish historical profession, 1801 - 1938 in, editor(s)Tibor Frank and Frank Hadler , Disputed Territories and shared pasts: overlapping national histories in Modern Europe, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp275 - 302, [Ciaran Brady]
From policy to power: the evolution of Tudor reform strategies in sixteenth century Ireland in, editor(s)Brian Mac Cuarta , Reshaping Ireland1550 - 1700: colonisation and its consequences, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2011, pp21 - 42, [Ciaran Brady]
Pitying the plumage: commomorating 'the flight of the earls' in contemporary and historical contexts in, editor(s)Thomas O'Connor and Mary Ann Lyons , The Ulster Earls and Baroque Europe, Four Courts Press, 2010, pp362 - 379, [Ciaran Brady]
Spenser, plantation and government policy in, editor(s)Richard A. McCabe , The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010, pp86 - 105, [Ciaran Brady]
Destinies Intertwined: the Metaphysical Unionism of James Anthony Froude in, editor(s)Seamas Ó Siocháin , Social thought on Ireland in the Nineteenth Century, UCD Press, 2009, pp108 - 134, [Brady C.]
East Ulster, the MacDonalds and the Provincial Strategies of Hugh O'Neill, earl of Tyrone, 1585-1603 in, editor(s)William P. Kelly and John R. Young , Scotland and the Ulster Plantations, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2009, pp41 - 61, [Ciaran Brady]
'Shane O'Neill'; ' Turlough Luineach O' Neill'; Thomas Radcliffe , 3rd earl of Sussex'; 'Sir Henry Sidney';' Sir John Perrot', The Dictionary of Irish Biography, Royal Irish Academy, 2009, [Brady C.]
The Victorians and the decline of Spain in, editor(s)Thomas O'Connor and Mary Ann Lyons , Ireland and Europe, 1500 - 1700, Four Courts Press, 2006, pp203 - 225, [Brady C.]
Sir Henry Sidney and the Reformation in Ireland in, editor(s)Elizabethanne Boran and Crawford Gribben , Enforcing Reformation in Ireland and Scotland, Palgrave Press, 2006, pp14 - 39, [Brady C., Murray J.]
Brady C., Ohlmeyer J., British Interventions in Early Modern Ireland, Cambridge University press, 2005, xx & 1-371pp
Making Good: new perspectives on the English in Ireland in, editor(s)Ciaran Brady and Jane Ohlmeyer , British Interventions in Early Modern Ireland, Cambridge University press, 2005, pp1 - 27, [Brady C., Ohlmeyer J.]
The attainder of Shane O'Neill, Sir Henry Sidney and the problems of Tudor state-building in Ireland in, editor(s)Ciaran Brady and Jane Ohlmeyer , British Interventions in Early Modern Ireland, Cambridge University press, 2005, pp28 - 48, [Brady C.]
Brady C., Downey D. and Morales O.R., The Irish Military diaspora in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, War and Society, Hapsburg Spain, Real Academia de la Historia, March, 2005
'Sir Henry Sidney' and 'Edmund Spenser', James S. Donnelly et al, Encyclopedia of Irish history and culture, 1&2, Macmillan/Thomson Gale, 2004, [Brady C.]
The end of the O'Reilly lordship in, editor(s)David Edwards , Regions and Rulers in Ireland, 1100- 1650, Four Courts Press, 2004, pp174 - 200, [Brady C.]
Sir Thomas Cusack, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford, 2004, [Brady C.]
'Anglo-Norman and English administration'; 'Tudor Rebellions' ; 'Turlough Luineach O'Neill'; Thomas Radcliffe , 3rd earl of Sussex; 'Sir Henry Sidney'; Arthur Grey de Wilton'; ' Sir John Perrot', Brian Lalor, Encyclopedia of Ireland, Gill and Macmillan, 2003, [Brady C.]
Brady C., A Viceroy's Vindication: Sir Henry Sidney's Memoir of service in Ireland, 1583, Cork University Press, 2002
Offering Offence: James Anthony Froude, moral obligation and the uses of Irish history in, editor(s)Vincent Carey and Ute Lotz-Heumann , Taking Sides? Colonial and confessional mentalites in early-modern Ireland, Four Courts Press, 2002, pp266 - 290, [Brady C.]
Ireland, Garland Press, Tudor England : an encyclopedia, 2001, pp383 - 389, [Brady C.]
New English Ideology in Ireland and the two Sir William Herberts in, editor(s)Amanda Piesse , Sixteenth Century Identities, Manchester University Press, 2000, pp75 - 113, [Brady C.]
The composition of Connacht'; 'Pacata Hibernica'; 'Sir James Ware', W.J. McCormack, The Blackwell Companion to Irish Culture, Blackwell, 1999, [Brady C.]
Brady C., The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Ireland, Hutchinson University Press, 1999
Brady C., The Beatified Irish Martyrs: Margaret Ball, Irish Theological Quarterly, 64, 1999, p379 - 386
Shane O'Neill departs from the court of Elizabeth: Irish, English and Scottish perspectives and the paralysis of policy in, editor(s)S.J. Connolly , Kingdoms United? Great Britain and Ireland since 1500, Four Courts Press, 1998, pp13 - 28, [Brady C.]
England's defence and Ireland's reform: the dilemma of the Irish viceroys, 1541 - 1641 in, editor(s)Brendan Bradshaw and John Morrill , The British Problem, c 1534 - 1707: state formation and the Atlantic archipelago, Macmillan, 1996, pp89 - 117, [Brady C.]
The Captain's Games: army and society in Elizabethan Ireland in, editor(s)Thomas Bartlett and Keith Jeffery , A Military History of Ireland, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp136 - 159, [Brady C.]
Brady C., Shane O'Neill, Dundalgan Press, 1996
Comparable Histories?: Tudor reform in Wales and Ireland in, editor(s)Steven Ellis and Sarah Barber , Conquest and Union: fashioning a British State, Longman, 1995, pp64 - 86, [Brady C.]
"Constructive and Instrumental": the dilemma of Ireland's first "new historians" in, editor(s)Ciaran Brady , Interpreting Irish History: the debate on historical revisionism, 1938 - 1994, Irish Academic Press, 1994, pp3 - 31, [Brady C.]
Brady C., Interpreting Irish History: the debate on historical revisionism, 1938 - 1994, Irish Academic Press, 1994
Brady C., The Chief Governors: the rise and fall of reform government in Tudor Ireland, 1536-1588, Cambridge University Press, 1994
The decline of the Irish kingdom in, editor(s)Mark Greengrass , Conquest and Coalescence: the shaping of the state in early modern Europe, Edward Arnold, 1992, pp94 - 115, [Brady C.]
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Brady C., Hugh O'Neill, 2005, -
Brady C., A New History of Ireland: the Tudor period', Irish Historical Society, January, 2005
Brady C., Looking Backwards: the formation of the Irish historical profession, 1938 - 1874, Iveagh Lecture on Modern Irish History, Alexandra College, 2004
Ciaran Brady, Declan Downey and Oscar Recio Morales, Irish troops in the service of Hapsburg Spain, 1580 - 1800: a database compiled from sources in archives in Spain, Italy and Belgium, 2004, -
Brady C., Law, land and lineage in sixteenth century Ireland, War and Cultural Conflict in the Renaissance, Centre d'Études Supérieur de la Renaissance, Université Francois Rabelais, Tours, July, 2003
Local History in Ireland in, Local Ireland Handbook, O'Brien Press, 2003, pp5 - 14, [Brady C.]
Brady C., Hugh O'Neill, the Mac Donalds and the outbreak of the Nine Years War' in Ireland and Scotland in the early modern period, University of Strathclyde, October, 2002
Carlos Fernández-Andrade Marín, Hugo O'Donnell, Declan Downey, Ciaran Brady & José Antonio Crespo-Francés y Valero, La Batalla de Kinsale, 2002, -
Brady C., John Mitchel and Trinity College, Thomas Davis Lecture, RTE Broadcast, June, 1993
Research Expertise
Description
Sixteenth and seventeenth century Irish history (esp. political and intellectual); colonial North America; Irish historigraphy. CURRENT RESEARCH: A study of the work of James Anthony Froude.Recognition
Representations
I have contributed a number of reviews to History Ireland, The Irish Literary Supplement, The Irish Times
I have given several papers on the development of the new Leaving Certificate History Syllabus to conferences held under the auspices of the Royal Irish Academy, the Royal Historical Society and the History Teachers Association of Ireland.
Programme notes for The Treaty of Mellifont , a concert featuring Stephen Rea Michael Holohan, Micheál Ó Brian, Ciaran Brady, National Gallery, 27 November, 2003
In October 2004 as part of the Shelbourne Hotel's 180th anniversary celebrations, I devised a series of historical readings which I performed with the actor Barry McGovern