Dr. Patrick Walsh
Assistant Professor, History
Biography
am an economic, social and political historian of eighteenth-century Ireland. My current research investigates the processes of state formation in eighteenth-century Ireland within a comparative imperial perspective. I am especially interested in the ways in which the agents of the emerging Irish state negotiated and collaborated with the different interests and groups within Irish society and have written extensively on the history of Irish taxation and the Irish version of the fiscal military state. To this end I have also collaborated with colleagues in the National University of Ireland, Galway on a database of Ireland's international trade, 1683-1829 while I am also co-investigator on the Irish Residential Army Barracks project at UCD. Most recently I have become increasingly interested in the history of Irish property in the long eighteenth-century and its financial and other connections to empire. Prior to coming to Trinity I taught at University College London (UCL) and previous to that I held an IRC-Marie Curie-Sklodowska postdoctoral mobility fellowship jointly at UCL and UCD.
I am currently Co- PI (with Dr Andrew MacKillop, University of Glasgow) on a project funded by the AHRC and the IRC digital humanities networking scheme entitled Comparing and Combining Early Modern Irish and Scottish Land Records: New Transkribus and Natural Language Processing Approaches
I am also Co-PI (with Dr Ciaran O'Neill) on the Trinity Colonial Legacies project
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Patrick Walsh Douglas Kanter, Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662-2016, Basingstoke, Palgrave MacMillan, 2019, 1 - 367pp
Patterns of Taxation in Eighteenth-Century Ireland in, editor(s)Douglas Kanter Patrick Walsh , Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662-2016, Basingstoke, UK, Palgrave MacMillan, 2019, pp89 - 120, [Patrick Walsh]
Patrick Walsh, Between the Speaker and the Squire: The Anglo Irish Life of William Conolly II, Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies, 20, 2018, p52 - 70
The Eighteenth-Century Fiscal Military State: A Four Nations Perspective' in, editor(s)Naomi Lloyd Jones Margaret Scull , Four Nations Approaches to Modern 'British' History: A Disunited Kingdom? , Basingstoke, Palgrave-MacMillan, 2017, pp85 - 110, [Patrick Walsh]
Presbyterian History in Ireland: The Seventeenth-Century Narratives of Patrick Adair and Andrew Stewart, Robert Armstrong, Scott Spurlock and Patrick Walsh, Belfast:, Ulster Historical Foundation, 2016, -
Enforcing the Fiscal State: The Army, the Revenue and the Irish Experience of the Fiscal-Military State, 1690-1769 in, editor(s)Patrick Walsh Aaron Graham , The British Fiscal-Military States, 1660-1783, London, Routledge, 2016, pp131 - 158, [Patrick Walsh]
Patrick Walsh, Review of Periodical Literature on British and Irish Economic History, 1700-1850, Economic History Review, 2016
Ireland and the Royal Navy in the Eighteenth Century in, editor(s)John McAleer Christer Petley , The Royal Navy and the Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century , Basingstoke, Palgrave-MacMillan, 2016, pp51 - 76, [Patrick Walsh]
Patrick Walsh Aaron Graham, The British Fiscal-Military States, 1660-1783 , London, Routledge, 2016, 1 - 318pp
Patrick Walsh, Aidan Kane & Eoin Magennis, Ireland, 1686-1825, Revue de l'OFCE, 140, 2015, p269 - 275
Patrick Walsh, Irish Money on the London Market: Ireland, the Anglo-Irish and the South Sea Bubble of 1720, Eighteenth-Century Life , 39, (1), 2015, p131 - 154
Patrick Walsh, The South Sea Bubble and Ireland: Money, Banking and Investment, 1690- 1721, Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2014, 1 - 204pp
Patrick Walsh, The Fiscal State in Ireland, 1691-1769, Historical Journal, 56, (3), 2013, p629 - 656
Patrick Walsh, John Bergin, Eoin Magennis and Lesa Ní Mhungaile , New Perspectives on the Penal Laws: Special Issue of Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Iris an dá chultúr , Dublin, Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society, 2011, 1 - 282pp
Biography and the meaning of an Irish Country House: William Conolly and Castletown in, editor(s)Terence Dooley Christopher Ridgeway , The Irish country house: its past, present and future , Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2011, pp21 - 39, [Patrick Walsh]
Patrick Walsh, The Bubble on the Periphery: Scotland and the South Sea Bubble, Scottish Historical Review, 89, (231), 2011, p106 - 124
Patrick Walsh & Anthony Malcomson, The Conolly Archive, Dublin, Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2010
Club Life in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries in, editor(s)James Kelly Martyn Powell , Clubs and societies in eighteenth-century Ireland, 1690-1800., Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2010, [Patrick Walsh]
Patrick Walsh, The Making of the Irish Protestant Ascendancy: The Life of William Conolly, 1689-1729 , Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2010
Patrick Walsh, movement of people? Responses to emigration from Ireland, 1718-30, Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, 3, (1), 2010, p221 - 236
Patrick Walsh, A new Edmund Burke letter from 1778, Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Iris an dá chultúr, 24, 2009, p160 - 164
Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Asgill, John (1659-1738); Boyle, Henry (1668-1725); Boyle, Richard (1612-98); Burgh, Thomas (1670-1730); Butler, Dr James II (1742-91); Carter, Thomas (c.1650-1726); Coghill, Marmaduke (1673-1739); Drummond, John 91649-1714); Hamilton, John James (1756-1818); Harding John (1697-1725); Herbert, Thomas (1656-1733); Hyde, Henry (1638-1709); Hyde, Laurence (1641-1711); Ingoldsby, Richard (1665-1712); McDonagh, Terence (1640-1713); Malone, Anthony (1700-1776); Moreton, William (1640-1715; Nevill, Arthur Jones (1712-1771); Plunkett, Nicholas (1629-1718); Porter, Charles (1640-1696); Pratt, John (1670-1741); Rigby, Richard (1722-1788); Russell, John (1710-1771); Singleton, Henry (1682-1759); Wesley, John (1703-1791); Wyndham, Thomas (1681-1745) , James McGuire James Quinn, Dictionary of Irish Biography, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, [Patrick Walsh]
Permanent tranquillity will not be established while the present system is continued,' Charles James Fox and Ireland, 1801-1803 in, editor(s)Anne Dolan Patrick Geoghegan Darryl Jones , Reinterpreting Emmet, essays on the life and legacy of Robert Emmet , Dublin, UCD Press, 2007, pp35 - 57, [Patrick Walsh]
Patrick Walsh, The Sin of With-Holding Tribute, Contemporary pamphlets and the professionalization of the Irish revenue service in the early eighteenth century, Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Iris an dá chultúr, 21, 2006, p48 - 65
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Mobeen Hussain, Ciaran O'Neill and Patrick Walsh,, Draft Trinity Colonial Legacies Working Paper on TCD and Slavery, 2023
Mobeen Hussain, Ciaran O'Neill and Patrick Walsh, , Working Paper on George Berkeley"s Legacies at Trinity, 2023
Patrick Walsh, Introduction to the Memorials and Transcription Books in the Registry of Deeds, Property Registration Authority, October, 2022, p1 - 27
Patrick Walsh, Deeds and Sasines Working Paper 1: Registry of Deeds Typologies , 2022
Aidan Kane, Eoin Magennis and Patrick Walsh, 'Ireland and Ireland's International Trade, 1683-1825', NUI Galway, 2021
Patrick Walsh, Edmund Burke's Political Economy, Studies in Burke and His Time, 30, 2021
Patrick Walsh, Review of Building the Irish Courthouse and Prison 1750-1850: A Political History, by Richard Butler , Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 36, 2021, p165-68
Patrick Walsh, Review of Irish Proclamations, 1660-1820, by James Kelly and Mary Ann Lyons , Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 34, 2019, p147-50
Charles Ivar McGrath, Patrick Walsh, Suzanne Forbes , 'Army Barracks of Eighteenth-Cenrtury Ireland', https://barracks18c.ucd.ie/, University College Dublin, 2016, -
Patrick Walsh, Castletown, Dublin, Office of Public Works, 2007
The differing motivations for preventing transatlantic emigration: a case study from west Ulster 1718-1729 in, editor(s)Shane Murphy Johanna Archbold John Gibney Carole Jones , Beyond the anchoring grounds: More crosscurrents in Irish and Scottish Studies , Belfast, Cló Ollscoil na Banríona, 2005, pp324 - 330, [Patrick Walsh]
Research Expertise
Description
I am an economic, political and social historian of eighteenth-century Ireland. My doctoral work and first monograph focused on the politics of the eighteenth-century Irish ascendancy elite through the first major study of the key political, administrative and landed figure, William Conolly (1662-1729). Since 2010 my research has focused on two major themes. The first of these is the impact of the late seventeenth/early eighteenth century financial revolution on Ireland and Scotland as exemplified by my second monograph and associated articles on the South Sea Bubble and current ongoing research on the eighteenth-century Irish property and financial markets arising out of my collaborative IRC/AHRC network grant which developed new digital humanities-led methodologies to unlock one of Ireland's most significant and untapped archives - the Registry of Deeds, a resource of unparalleled archival wealth in European terms. My second major research focus developed in a series of articles and edited books is on the Irish version of the fiscal-military state. This is the subject of my current book project which seeks to explore the processes of state formation in eighteenth-century Ireland through a comparative and colonial lens making an important contribution not just to the literature on Ireland, but also to European, British and Atlantic history debates on the wider phenomenon of the fiscal-military state as it developed across Europe and the Atlantic colonies. Drawing on detailed archival research on taxation and its discontents, the geography of military deployment and the coalitions of competing interest groups that made up Irish society it reinterprets Ireland's dual position as a partner in the British-Irish imperial project and as a site of empire and colonial state-making. Finally, this dual experience of empire informs my contributions to the major public history research project I am co-leading on Trinity's colonial legacies.Projects
- Title
- Comparing and Combining Early Modern Irish and Scottish Land Records: New Transkribus and Natural Language Processing Approaches
- Funding Agency
- Irish Research Council and AHRC
- Date From
- Aug. 2020
- Date To
- Feb. 2022
- Title
- Trinity's Colonial Legacies
- Funding Agency
- Trinity Philanthropy
- Date From
- Sept. 2021
- Date To
- Sept. 2023
- Title
- Ireland and the Infrastructure of Empire: Local, National and Global Perspectives
- Funding Agency
- Trinity Philanthropy
- Date From
- 2019
- Date To
- 2023
Recognition
Representations
Director Castletown Foundation
Member, Registry of Deeds Digitisation Advisory Group
General Editor, Eighteenth-Century Ireland
Peer Reviewer for Irish Historical Studies, Scottish Historical Review, Historical Research, Economic History Review, English Studies, Irish Economic and Social History and Eighteenth-Century Ireland,
Peer Reviewer for monographs submitted to Palgrave MacMillan and Routledge
Member of Judging Panel for Economic History Society New Researchers Prize, Cambridge, April 2016
Commissioned by Office of Public Works to write comprehensive new 64-page guidebook to Castletown House, Co. Kildare (8,000 copies printed).
Awards and Honours
Irish Research Council (IRC) and Arts and Humanties Research Council (AHRC)Digital Humanities Networking Grant
Provosts Project Award
IRC New Foundations Award
IRC CARA Cofund/Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship
IRCHSS Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship
Memberships
Director, Castletown Foundation
Committee Member Eighteenth Century Ireland society
Member Digitisation Strategy Advisory Group, Property Registration Authority of Ireland
Member Economic History Society
Member Irish Economic and Social History Society
Member Money, Power and Print Network