Biography
Simon Egan is an Assistant Professor in Medieval Irish and British History at Trinity College Dublin. Before coming to Dublin, Simon was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow within the Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies at the University of Glasgow. He held a one-year postdoctoral research fellowship from the Society for Renaissance Studies (2017-18) and before this worked as a part-time lecturer and tutor within the School of History at University College Cork (2011-2017).
Simon completed his PhD in History at University College Cork in 2016. His doctoral thesis was funded by the Irish Research Council and investigated the resurgence of Gaelic lordship in Ireland and Scotland c.1350-c.1513, with a particular focus on how events in these regions impacted and impinged upon the affairs of the wider archipelago. He is currently completing his first monograph which examines this topic in closer detail.
As a researcher, he is particularly interested in exploring the developing relationship between Ireland and Scotland and how events in these regions shaped the ambitions and concerns of both the English and Scottish monarchies throughout the period c.1100-c.1600. Simon's research interests also include piracy and warfare, lordship and nobility, and culture and society within the Gaelic world.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Simon Egan, A Task Too Great for One Dynasty? The Mortimer Earls of March, the de Burgh Inheritance, and the Gaelic Nobility, c.1370-c.1425, The Mortimer History Society Journal, 4, 2021, p1 - 20
Hákon IV, the Last Norse King of the Hebrides - and Ireland? in, editor(s)Luke McInerney , Gaelic Ireland (c.600-c.1700): Lordship, Saints and Learning - Essays for the Irish Chiefs# and Clans' Prize , Dublin, Wordwell Books, 2021, pp3 - 9, [Simon Egan]
Simon Egan, Lordship and Dynasty in the Late Medieval Irish Sea World: The Hiberno-Scottish Nexus, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, 78, (2), 2019, p1-44
Simon Egan, By Land and by Sea: The Role of the Maritime Sphere in the Expansion of O'Donnell Power ca. 1380-1500, Journal of the North Atlantic, 12, 2019, p16 - 31
A Playground of the Scots? Gaelic Ireland and the Stewart Monarchy in the Late Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries in, The Fifteenth century XVI: Examining Identity, Woodbridge, United Kingdom, Boydell and Brewer, 2018, pp105-121 , [Simon Egan]
Simon Egan, Richard II and the Wider Gaelic World: A Reassessment, Journal of British Studies, 57, (2), 2018, p221-252
An Irish Context to a Scottish Disaster: James IV, the O'Donnells of Tyrconnell and the Road to Flodden in, Politics, Kinship and Culture in Gaelic Ireland, c.1100-c.1690: Essays for the Irish Chiefs' and Clans' Prize in History , Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Wordwell Books, 2018, pp10 - 16, [Simon Egan]
Simon Egan, The Early Stewart Kings, the Lordship of the Isles, and Ireland, c. 1371-c.1433, Northern Studies, 49, 2018, p60 - 77
Simon Egan and David Edwards, The Scots in Early Stuart Ireland: Union and Separation in Two Kingdoms, Manchester, United Kingdom, Manchester University Press, 2016
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Simon Egan, Life and Death in Medieval Ireland: The Skeletons from Ballyhanna, Co. Donegal (Dublin, 2019), by C.J. McKenzie and E.M. Murphy , Peritia, 32, 2022, p309-312
Simon Egan, Review of David I: King of Scots, 1124-1153 (Edinburgh, 2019), by Richard Oram , Royal Studies Journal, 8, 2021, p181-82
Simon Egan, Gaelic Ulster in the Middle Ages: History, Culture and Society (Dublin, 2020), by Katharine Simms , Northern Scotland, 12, (2), 2021, p224-226
Simon Egan, Review of The Geraldines and Medieval Ireland: The Making of a Myth (Four Courts Press; Dublin, 2017), by S. Duffy and P. Crooks (eds) , Oenach, 9, (1), 2020, p26-32
Simon Egan, Review of The Old English in Early Modern Ireland: The Palesmen and the Nine Years War, 1594-1603 (Boydell and Brewer; Woodbridge, 2019), by Ruth Canning , Reformation, 25, (1), 2020, p109-11
Simon Egan, Review of The Sea Kings: The Late Norse Kingdoms of Man and the Isles (Birlinn; Edinburgh, 2019), by R.A. McDonald , Royal Studies Journal, 7, (2), 2020, p137-9
Simon Egan, Review of Alexander III, 1249-1286: First Among Equals (Birlinn; Edinburgh, 2019) , by N.H. Reid , Northern Scotland, 11, (1), 2020, p83-5
Simon Egan, Review of Stuart Marriage Diplomacy: Dynastic Politics in their European Context, 1604-1630 (Boydell and Brewer; Woodbridge, 2018, by V. Caldari and S. Wolfson (eds) , Renaissance Quarterly, 73, (1), 2020, p303-4
Simon Egan, B. Cunningham, Medieval Irish Pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela (Dublin, 2018) , by Bernadette Cunningham , Peritia, 31, 2020, p295-98
Simon Egan, Review of The Tudor Occupation of Boulogne: Conquest, Colonisation and Imperial Monarchy, 1544-50 (Cambridge University Press; Cambridge 2019) , by Neil Murphy , Scottish Historical Review, 98, (2), 2019, p305-7
Simon Egan, Review of The Corsairs' Longest Voyage: The Turkish Raid on Iceland, 1627 (Leiden; Brill, 2018) , by Thorsteinn Helgason , De Re Militari, 2019
Simon Egan, Review of Early Modern Ireland: New Sources, Methods and Perspectives (Routledge; London, 2019), by S. Covington, V. McGowan-Doyle, and V.P. Carey (eds) , History Ireland, 27, (5), 2019, p61
Simon Egan, Review of The Black Prince and the Grand Chevauchée of 1355 (Boydell and Brewer; Woodbridge, 2018), by Mollie Madden , British Journal of Military History , 5, (1), 2019, p71-3
Simon Egan, Review of Cultural Exchange and Identity in Late Medieval Ireland: The English and Irish of the Four Obedient Shires (Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 2018) , by Sparky Booker , History Ireland, 26, (6), 2018, p61
Simon Egan, Review of The Colonial World of Richard Boyle, First Earl of Cork (Four Courts Press; Dublin, 2018), by David Edwards and Colin Rynne (eds) , History Scotland, 18, (6), 2018, p55-6
Simon Egan, Review of England and Scotland, 1286-1603 (Basingstoke; Palgrave MacMillan, 2017), by Andy King and Claire Etty , Peritia, 28, 2017, p270-3
Simon Egan, Review of James II (Tuckwell Press; Edinburgh, 2016), by C. McGladdery , Scottish Historical Review, 96, (2), 2017, p236-8
Simon Egan, Review of Kings, Clerics and Vikings: Essays in Honour of Donnchadh Ó Corráin (Four Courts Press; Dublin, 2015), by E. Purcell, P. MacCotter, J. Nyhan and J. Sheehan (eds) , Oenach, 7, (2), 2016, p1-8
Simon Egan, James IV, the O'Donnells of Tyrconnell and the road to Flodden, History Ireland, 26, (6), 2016, p16 - 20
Research Expertise
Recognition
Awards and Honours
Mortimer History Society Essay Prize
Geoffrey Barrow Award: Society for Scottish Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship
Society for Renaissance Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship
Finte na hÉireann/Clans of Ireland History Essay Prize
Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship
National University of Ireland, Dr H.H. Stewart Prize in Latin
College Scholar Award, University College Cork
Professor John A. Murphy Prize in Irish History, School of History, University College Cork
National University of Ireland, Mansion House Scholarship
Memberships
Celtic Studies Association of North America
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Alumni Association
Mortimer History Society
Renaissance Society of America
Scottish Medievalists
Forum for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Ireland