Biography
Born New Ross, Co. Wexford, 29 Nov. 1932. Educated Christian Brothers, and later Good Counsel, New Ross. University studies began in 1950. These and the background to them are described in "Reminiscences and reflections on fifty years in history" in Living economic and social history, ed. Pt Hudson, Economic History Society, 2001, pp.5--54.
Outside history itself took an active role in the 1960s and 1970s in publicising the extent of the neglect of cultural institutions and the negative measures sometimes in stealth taken by the Department of Education. Later a member of the Visitors to the National Museum. Founder of the Irish Economic History Group (predecessor to the Irish Economic and Social History Society) 1968. Joint director of the Survey of Business Records, 1970=1996.. As member of the Irish Manuscripts Commission from 1970, played a role in the making of the case for legislation regarding archives and upgrading of the public archives.
Hobbies: hill walking and walking nationally the canal towpaths.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Louis Cullen, Problems in and sources for the study of economic fluctuations 1660=1800, Irish economic and social history, 31, 2014, p1 - 19
cullen l m, Gulliver in Japan; Swift's GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, Eru (Journal of the Japan-Ireand Society Tokyo), 33, 2014, p74 - 83
L.M. Cullen, Gulliver in Japan, Eighteenth-century Ireland, (no. 28), 2013, p170 - 176
L.M. Cullen, Japanese Archives : Sources for the study of Tokugawa Administrative and Diplomatic Hiistory, Japan Review: Journal of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, (25), 2013, p33 - 65
cullen l m, "H.M,.S. Spy off the Galway coast in the 1730s:the politics and economics of wool smuggling", Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, 65, 2013, p27 - 47
The Irish community in Bordeaux in, editor(s)L,M ,Cullen, John Shovlin and Thomas M. Truxes , The Bordeaux-Ireland letters: correspondence of an Irish community abroad, Oxford, Oxford University Press for The British Academy, 2013, pp31 - 59, [L.M. Cullen]
L.M. Cullen, John Shovling, Thomas M.Truxes, The Belfast-Dublin letters, 1757:correspondence of an Irish community abroad, Oxford, Oxford University Press for The British Academy, 2013, 1 - 330pp
L.M. Cullen, Economy, trade and Irish merchants at home and abroad, 1600=1988, Dubllin, Four Courts Press, 2012, 320pp
l m cullen, Bankers, bureaucrats, booms and busts, The Irish Review, (no. 45), 2012, p1 - 18
Cullen l m, Merriman in a world of schoirmasters, Eighteenth-century Ireland, (26), 2011, p80 - 94
l m cullen, Stsu and early meiji foreign trade. Part 2: Trade in bakumatsu and early Meiji timesy Meiji Foreign Trade. Part 1: Coastal Trade in Tokugawa Times, Japan Review : journal of the Internationall Research Center for Japaese Studies, 22, 2010, p59 - 102
l m cullen, Eileen Kato,1932-2008, Eru [Journal of the Japan-Ireland Society, Tokyo], 30, 2010, p3 - 16
Les Choiaeul et les irlandais de leur entourage in, editor(s)Raymond Abad , Les passions d'un historien ; melanges en l'honneur de Jean-Pierre Poussou, Paris, Presses de d la universite Paris-Sorbonne, 2010, pp281 - 294, [L, M, Cullen]
Louis Michael Cullen, Le reseau triangulaire de contrabande Ecosse-Irlande-Ile de Man et ses lliens europeens, Revue Historique de Dunkerque et du Littoral, 43, 2010, p73 - 94
l m cullen, Eileen Kato,1932-2008, The Irish review, 42, 2010, p99 - 103
L. M. Cullen, The Irish food crises of the early 1740a: the economic conjuncture, Irish economic and social history, xxxvii, 2010, p1 - 23
L. M. Cullen, Estimating Irish GDP from the mid-nineteenth century to the First World War : The context and development of historical national accounts in Ireland to the First World War, Irish economic and social history, xxxvii, 2010, p75 - 84
Richard Warren, Andrew Gallwey and the smugglers of Rush: an enrepot in Belle-Ile-en-Mer; 1766-1770 in, editor(s)Jane Conroy , Franco-Irish Connections: essay, memoirs and poems in honour of Pierre Joannon, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2009, pp65 - 77, [Louis Cullen]
Dublin in, editor(s)John McCourt , James Joyce in context, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp173 - 183, [Louis Cullen]
Louis Cullen, Statiistics of Tokugawa coastal trade and Bakumatsu and Early Meiji Foreign Trade. Part 1: Coastal Trade in Tokugawa Times, Japan Review : journal of the Internationall Research Center for Japaese Studies, 21, 2009, p183 - 223
Arthur Young, James McGuire and James Quinn, Dictionary of Irish Biography, 9, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp1098 - 1101, [L.M. Cullen]
Richard Hennessy, James McGuire and James Quinn, Dictionary of Irish Biography, 4, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp614 - 616, [L.M. Cullen]
L.M. Cullen, Choiseul's Irish circle and the Irish community: the end of the Ancien regime, Eighteenth-century Ireland, 24, 2009, p62 - 83
"Daikikin o meguro seiji tairitsu to daikikin no rekishi kenkyu o meguru seiji tairitsu" (Japanese translation of "The politics of the Famine and of Famine historiography" in Comhdail an Chraoibhin 1996: conference proceedings ) in, editor(s)Shinichi Takagami , , Jukyuseiki zenhan no airurand noson ni okeru hikon to kikin no saikento, Osaka, Osaka Sangyo Daigaku Keizai-bu, 2008, pp138 - 178, [L.M. Cullen]
"Marisazu airurando so shite kikin" (Mathus, Ireland and famine) ', in, editor(s)Shinichi Takagami , Jukyuseiki zenhan no airurand noson ni okeru hikon to kikin no saikento (Revision in the interpretation of poverty and famine in the Irish rural community in the first half of the 19th century, Osaka, Osaka Sangyo Daigaku Keizai-bu, 2008, pp119 - 137, [L.M. Cullen]
"Irische Weinbrandhandler in der Charente im 18. jahrhundert",, Klaus J. Bade, Pieter C. Emmet, Leo Lucassen, Jocken Oltmer, Enzyklopadie: migration in Europe vom 17. jahrhundert bis zur gegenwart,, Munich, Ferdinand Schoningh, 2007, pp660 - 661, [L.M. Cullen]
Identité , indépendence et politique: l;Irlande d'hier et d'aujourd'hui in, editor(s)Anne-Marie Cocula, Michel Figeac, Sylvie Guillaume and Philippe Loupès , Entre tradition et modernité , l'identité aquitaine: mélanges offerts à Jocette Pontet, Bordeaux, Centre Aquitain d'histoire moderne et contemporaine, 2007, pp415 - 421, [Cullen L.]
The two George Fitzgeralds of London 1718-1759 in, editor(s)David Dickson, Jane Ohlmeyer and Jan Parmentier , Irish and Scottish mercantile networks in Europe and overseas in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Gent, Academia Press, 2007, pp251 - 265, [L.M. Cullen]
"The 'suppression' of the Volunteers and United Irishmen: sources and interpretation 1792-4" i in, editor(s)Bernard Browne , The Wexford Man: essays in honour of Nicky Furlong, Dublin, Geography Publications, 2007, pp49 - 72, [L.M. Cullen]
Edmund Burke and Trinity College: lifelong ties and later college in, editor(s)Sean Patricio Donlan , Edmund Burke's Irish identities, Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 2006, pp45 - 55, [Cullen L.]
Apotheosis and crisis: the Irish diaspora in the age of Choiseul in, editor(s)Thomas O'Connor and Mary Ann Lyons , Irish communities in early-modern Europe, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2006, pp6 - 31, [Cullen L.]
Cullen L.M., Tokugawa population: the archival issues, Nichibunken Japan Review: Journal of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies [Kyoto],, 18, (1), 2006, p129 - 180
Cullen L.M., Le choix de Cognac: l'établissement des négociants irlandais en eau-de-vie au xviii siècle (French translation of The Irish brandy houses...2002), Paris, Croit Vif, 2006, 320pp
Scotland and Ireland,1600-1800 in, editor(s)R.A. Houston and I.D. Whyte , Scottish society 1500-1800, Cambridge, University Press, 2005, pp226 - 244, [Cullen L.]
Cullen L.M., Labrousse, the Annales school, and Histoire sans frontières, Journal of European economic history, 34, (1), 2005, p309 - 350
Cullen L.M., Edmund Burke and Trinity College, Studies in Burke and his time, 20, (1), 2005, p82 - 94
The food crisis of the early 1740s in, editor(s)A.M. Cocula and J. Pontet , Au contact des lumières: mélanges offerts à Philippe Loupès (vol. 2), Bordeaux, Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2005, pp283 - 306, [Cullen L.M.]
Foreword in, Retrospections of Dorothea Herbert 1770-1806, Dublin, Town House, 2004, ppix - xxix, [Cullen L.]
Développement économique et maritime en l'absence de commerce extérieur: la situation du Japon de 1639 a 1858 in, editor(s)Christian Buchet, Jean Meyer and Jean-Pierre Poussou , La puissance maritime, Paris, Presse de l'université Paris-Sorbonne, 2004, pp219 - 234, [Cullen L.]
Cullen L., Sakoku, Tokugawa policyu and the interpretation of Japanese history, The Asiatic Society of Japan, 3, 2004, p3 - 5
Cullen L., Sakoku, Tokugawa policyu and the interpretation of Japanese history, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, fourth series, 18, (9), 2004, p17 - 31
Eighteenth-century flour milling in Ireland in, editor(s)A Bielenberg , rish flour milling, a history 600-2000, Dublin, Lilliput, 2004, pp37 - 56, [Cullen L.]
Cullen L., Scottish histories, Scottish affairs, 43, 2003, p127-131
Cullen L., A history of Japan: external and internal worlds, 1582-1941, Cambridge, 2003
Cullen L., The brandy trade under the Ancien regime: regional specialisation in the Charente, paper back edition, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002
Building the new parish chuuch in, St.Mary and Michael Parish Church, New Ross1902-2002 : A cdntenary history, Dublin, 2001, pp1 - 101, [Cullen L.]
Reminiscences and reflections of 50 years in history in, editor(s)Pat Hudson , Living economic and social history : essays to mark the 75th anniversary of the Economic History Society, Glasgow, Economic History Society, 2001, pp50 - 54, [Cullen L.]
Cullen L., La contrabande en Irlande au xviiiie siecle, Revue historique de Dunkerque et du litoral, XXXV, 2001, p147 - 180
The evolution of mercantile culture and values in western Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: The changing status of merchants in, Ferie e mercantat nella integrazione delle econimiche europee secc. xiii-xviii, Prato, 2001, pp1001 - 1038, [Cullen L.]
Irish businessman and French courtier: the career of Thomas Sutton, comte de Clonard, c.1722-1782 in, editor(s)J. McCusker and K. Morgan , The early modern Atlantic economy: festschrift for Jacob Price, Cambridge, 2000, [Cullen L.]
Cullen L., The Irish brandy merchants of Ancien Regime France, Dublin, 2000
Cullen L., Alliances and misalliances in the history of the Union, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, sixth series, x, 2000, p221 - 241
The politics of crisis and rebellion, 1792-1798 in, editor(s)Jim Smyth , Revolution, counter-revolution and union: Ireland in the 1790s, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp21 - 38, [Cullen L.]
Cullen L., Eikoku kigai shiryo to Nihon (British parliamentary papers and Japan), Chi-iki kenkyu ronshu, 3, (1), 2000, p17 - 24
Cullen L., Alliances and misalliances in the politics of the Union, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th series, 10, 2000, p221 - 241
La crise economique de la fin de l'Ancien Regime in, editor(s)J.P. Poussou , L'economie francaise du xviiie au xxe siecle: Melanges offerts Francois Crouzet, Paris, 2000, pp581 - 601, [Cullen L.]
Humphrey O'Sullivan's Callan: before and after in, editor(s)Noreen O'Donnell , Callan Co-operative Agricultural and Dairy Society Ltd., 1899-1999, Callan Co-operative and Dairy Society, 1999, pp11 - 28, [Cullen L.]
Cullen L., Rebellion mortality in Wexford in1798, Journal of the Wexford Historical Society, 17, 1999, p7 - 29
Bordeaux dans le cadre du commerce international des eaux-de-vie au xviiie siecle in, editor(s)P. Guillaume , Bordeaux, porte oceane, carrefour Europeen: actes de Le congres d'etudes regionales de la federation historique du sud-ouest, Bordeaux, 1999, pp35 - 42, [Cullen L.]
Cullen L., 1000 years of finance, Finance, 13, (12), 1999, p16 - 20
Cullen L., Yoropa to Airurando no musabi-tsuki : genzai to shorai ( Present and future links between Ireland and Europe), Gakujitsu kokusai koryu sanko shiryo-shu, no. 228, Meiji University, Tokyo, March, 1998, pp3 - 20
Matsuo Taro kyoju no isan (The legacy of Professor Taro Matsuo) in, Taro Matsuo: Airurando no noson no henyo ( Changes in the Irish farming community: memorial volume), Ronsosha, Tokyo, 1998, pp1 - 12, [Cullen L.]
Colonial and exotic products: their place and role in Irish economy and society in, editor(s)S. Cavaciocchi , Prodotti e techniche d'oltremare nelle economie europee secc.XIII-XVIII, Prato, 1998, pp255 - 269, [Cullen L.]
Cullen L., Professor Matsuo Taro,1933-1997, Keizai Shirin ( Hosei University, Tokyo), 66, (2), 1998, p47 - 70
Foreword in, editor(s)P. O'Shaughnessy , Rebellion in Wicklow: general Joseph Holty's personal account of 1798, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 1998, pp5 - 7, [Cullen L.]
Cullen L., The brandy trade under the Ancien Regime: regional specialisation in the Charente, Cambridge University Press, 1998
The politics of clerical radicalism in the 1790s in, The Brandy Trade Under the Ancien Regime: Regional Specialisation in the Charente, Cambridge University Press, 1998, [Cullen L.]
The Politics of the Famine and of Famine Historiography in, editor(s)B.O. Conaire , Comhdhail an Chraoibhin, Boyle, Co. Roscommon, 1997, [Cullen L.]
The politics of clerical radicalism in, editor(s)Liam Swords , The 1790s' in Protestant, catholic and dissenter: the clergy and 1798, Dubin, Columba Press, 1997, pp274 - 309, [Cullen L.]
The politics of clerical radicalism in the 1790s in, editor(s)Liam Swords , Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter: the Clergy and 1798, Dublin, Columba Press, 1997, [Cullen L.]
Burke's Irish views and writings in, editor(s)Ian Crowe , Edmund Burke: His Life and Legacy, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 1997, [Cullen L.]
Cullen L., The United Irishmen: problems and issues of the 1790s, The Turbulent Decade: Ulster in the 1790s, Ulster Local Studies,, 18, (2), 1997, p7 - 27
Burke's Irish views and writings in, editor(s)Ian Crowe , Edmund Burke: his life and legacy, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 1997, pp62 - 75, [Cullen L.]
The United Irishmen in Wexford in, editor(s)Daire Keogh and Nicholas Furlong , The mighty wave: the 1798 rebellion in Wexford, Dublin, 1996, pp48 - 64, [Cullen L.]
Cullen L., The political troubles of county Armagh : a comment, Irish economic and social history, xxiii, 1996, p18 - 23
Filiocht, cultur agus poilitiocht in, editor(s)M. Ni Dhonnachadha , Nua-leamha: gneithe de chultur, stair agus politiocht na h-Eireann, Dublin, 1996, pp170 - 199, [Cullen L.]
Cullen L., Home economics, Review of A new economic history of Ireland, by O Grada , Bullan: An Irish Studies Journal, 2, (2), 1996, p101-109
Cullen L., Home economics, Review of A New Economic History of Ireland, by O'Grada, Cormac , Bullan: An Irish Studies Journal, 2, (2), 1996
Cullen L., Poetry, culture and politics, Studia celtica japonica, 8, 1996, p1 - 26
Cullen L., The politics of the Famine and of Famine historiography, Comhdhail an Chraoibhin, edited by B. O Conaire , 1996, pp9 - 31
Cullen L., The Joyce country: Joyce's Dublin, Joycean Japan (The James Joyce Society of Japan), 6, 1995, p19 - 40
The Scottish exchange on London, 1673-1778 in, editor(s)S.J. Connolly, R.A. Houston and R.J. Morris , Conflict, identity and economic development: Ireland and Scotland, 1600-1939, Preston, Carnegie Publishing, 1995, pp29 - 44, [Cullen L.]
Cullen L., Irish National income in 1911 and its context, Historical National Accounts Group for Ireland, 1995, p56
Cullen L., The political troubles of County Armagh: A Comment, The James Joyce Society of Japan, 6, 1995
A story of growth and change: Dublin 1560-1800 in, editor(s)Howard B. Clarke , Irish Cities, Cork, Mercier Press, 1995, [Cullen L.]
A story of growth and change: Dublin 1560-1800 in, editor(s)Howard B. Clarke , Irish cities, Mercier Press in association with RTE, 1995, pp96 - 108, [Cullen L.]
The Scottish exchange on London, 1673-1778 in, editor(s)S. J. Connolly, R.A. Houston and R.J. Morris , Conflict, Identity and Economic Development: Ireland and Scotland, 1600-1939, Preston, Carnegie Publishing, 1995, [Cullen L.]
Cullen L., Smuggling and the Ayrshire economic boom of 1760s and 1770s, Ayrshire monographs, 14, 1994
Politics and rebellion: Wicklow in the 1790s in, editor(s)K.Hannigan and W. Nolan , Wicklow: history and society, Dublin, 1994, pp412 - 501, [Cullen L.]
The Irish diaspora of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuriees in, editor(s)N. Canny , Europeans on the move: studies in European migration, 1500-1800, Oxford, 1994, pp113 - 149, [Cullen L.]
The Blackwater catholics and county Cork society and politics in the eighteenth century in, editor(s)P. O'Flanagan and C.G. Buttimer , Cork: history and society, Cork, 1993, pp535 - 584, [Cullen L.]
Cullen L., The contemporary and later politics of the Caoineadh Airt Ui Laoire, Eighteenth-century Ireland, 8, 1993, p7 - 38
The internal politics of the United Irishmen in, editor(s)D. Dickson, D. Keogh and K. Whelan , The United Irishmen: republicanism, radicalism and rebellion, Dublin, 1993, pp176 - 196, [Cullen L.]
Cullen L., History, crisis and revolution: understanding eighteenth-century France, Economic history review, 1993, p396 - 418
Cullen L., Famine, mortality and society, Scottish economic and social history, 12, 1992, p76 - 79
The growth of Dublin 1600-1900: character and heritage in, editor(s)F.H.A, Aalen and K. Whelan , Dublin city and county :essays in honour of J.H. Andrews, Dublin, 1992, pp252 - 278, [Cullen L.]
Comparative aspects of Irish diet 1550-1850 in, editor(s)Hans J. , European food history: a research review, Teuteberg,Leicester, Leicester University Press, 1992, pp45 - 55, [Cullen L.]
Cullen L., Burke, Ireland and Revolution, Studies in the eighteenth century, David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, 16, (1), 1992, pp21 - 42
Cullen L., Dominicans in the 18th century Irish church, Doctrine and Life, 41, 1991, p468-75
The early brandy trade (1660-1760) in, editor(s)L.M. Cullen, E. Aerts and R.G. Wilson , Production, marketing and consumption of alcoholic beverages since the late middle ages, Leuven, 1990, pp20 - 30, [Cullen L.]
Cullen L., Bergeron L.(ed.), Culture et pratiques politiques en France et Irlande, xvi-xviii siecles, 1990
Cullen L., Luthy's La banque protestante: a reassessment, Bulletin du centre d'histoire des espaces atlantiques, Universite de Bordeaux III, 5, 1990, p229 - 263
Cullen L., Easons: a history, Dublin, 1989
Le reseau commercial du negoce du cognac dans les annees 1760 in, editor(s)Francos Crouzet , Le negoce international, xiiie-xxe siecle, Paris, 1989, [Cullen L.]
Cullen L., Scotland and Ireland 1600-1800: their role in the evolution of British society, Scotttish Society 1500-1800, 1989
Smugglers in the Irish Sea in the eighteenth century in, editor(s)M.McMCaughan and J.Appleby , The Irish Sea: aspects of maritime history, Belfast, 1989, [Cullen L.]
Cullen L., The hidden Ireland: reassesment of a concept, 1988, p54
Cullen L., Historical backdrop, Retrospections of Dorothea Herbert 1770-1806, 1988, p437 - 456
Cullen L., The birth of modern finance, Finance, 1988
Cullen L., Irish economic development and problems in the 1970s and 1980s, Journal of International Economic Studies, 1987
Cullen L., Butel P.(ed.), Cities and merchants: French and Irish perspectives of urban development, 1986, 1600-1900 p
Cullen L., Princes and pirates: history of the Dublin Chamber of Commere, 1783-1983, Dublin, 1983
Cullen L., The emergence of modern Ireland 1600-1900, London, 1981
Cullen L., Butel P.(ed.), Negoce et industrie en France et en Irlande aux xviii et xix siecle, 1980
Cullen L., Furet F.(ed.), France and Ireland: towards a comparative history, 1980
Cullen L., Smout T.C.(ed.), Comparative aspects of Scottish and Irish economic and social history, 1977
Cullen L., An economic history of Ireland since 1660, London, 1972
Cullen L., Life in Ireland, London, 1968
Cullen L., Anglo-Irish trade, 1660-1800, London, 1968
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Louis Cullen, Blackrock in the context of Dublin Bay and coast, Blackrock Society Proceedings, 16, 2008, p6 - 14
'Hikaku shi: rekishi kyoju to kyoiku ni okeru sono ichi to shoraisei" ( Ccmparative history: the present state and prospects of university history teaching and study), Institute of comparative economic studies, Hosei University, Tokyo, working paper no. 120, Cullen L.
An introduction to Irish history : lectures to Japanese students, working paper no. 41, Cullen L.
Tokugawa economy and society in historical perspective, working paper, no. 22, Cullen L.
Research Expertise
Description
. Eighteenth-century Irish economic and political history. . French trade in the eighteenth century. . Japanese history of the Tokugawa period. . , . iEevolution of Japanese bureaucracy 1792-1858 to counter western threat( a theme outlined in passing in A history of Japan: external and internal worlds, 1582-1941 )below).This is intended to be the basis for a further book in Japanese historyProjects
- Title
- Analysis of evolution of Japanese bureaucracy and its archivl sources, 1792-1858
- Summary
- It is a study of Japanese policy, administrative changes in response to emerging 外圧 or foreign pressure、and analysis of the archival sources both as to their nature and extent. T wo stages of this study have already been completed, concerning the extent to which Japanese officials employed statistical concepts in their administrative work. A further stage, the Resanofu or Russian embassy of 1804 is currenty being studied: this was a major event in the dip;omatic history of Japan, and has relatively rich sources. It will be followed by an analysis of the administrative and arhival issues raised in the huge Tsuko Ichiran, compiled in the 1850s , ss a record of Japan's past foreign g relations. to brief Japanese officials who now knew that a foreign challenge was imminent. Population sources were the subject of a paper published in Japan Review in 2006; a further paper is at the moment with referees on the subject of statistics of trade. The sources for statistics have the same characteristic as surviving records of decision making and negotiation. Both administrative documents and statistics of population and trade survive exclusively in copies, often themselves incomplete or summary, and in many cases quite literally copies of copies. Population figures were little used by the shogunal authorities Change began in earnest from 1858 when trade figures after the opening of the ports in 1859 began to become systematic, and when administrative records began to be retained in the original, rather than copied into manusript books on individual topics. The Foreign ministry led the way, and other ministries adopted similar procedures in the decade from 1868.
- Funding Agency
- part funded by Hosei Univeristy and Osaka Sangyo Univ, facilitated by regular visiting status Kyoto
Recognition
Representations
Board of Visitors, National Musuem of Ireland
Member of Irish Manuscripts Commission (now honorary member)
Awards and Honours
Ordre des palmes academiques (France)
Honorary doctorate in social sciences, Queen's University Belfast
Hhonorary D.Litt,.University of Strathclyde
Corresponding fellow, British Academy
Honorary D.Litt,,National Univerisy of Ireland
Honorary Docteur de l'Universite de Paris, Paris-Sorbonne
Fellow, later Senior Fellow, Trinty College, Dublin
directeur d'etudes, Ecoles des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, Paris
visiting fellow , All Souls College, Oxford
visiting scholar, International Research centre in Japanese studies, Kyoto
Memberships
Royal Irish Academy
Chairman , Japanese studies committee