Prof. James Kelly MRIA

Head of the Department

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Contact Details

Office : D313, Department of History, St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, Ireland.

E-mail : James.Kelly@spd.dcu.ie

Phone: +353 1 884 2101

Fax: +353 1 8376197

Prof. James Kelly lectures on various aspects of Irish History between the seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, on, America from the Civil War, on Irish historiography and on historical methods. He is joint- editor of Studia Hibernica and of the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. He has published extensively on a variety of topics and issues on late-early modern Irish History, with particular reference to the eighteenth century. Current research interests include the operation of the eighteenth-century Irish legislature, famine and poor relief in the eighteenth century, the development of conservative Protestant thinking in late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the 'crowd' in eighteenth-century Ireland, the practice of medicine, and gender relations in early modern Ireland.

Recent Publications:

• The proceedings of the Irish House of Lords, 1771-1800 (3 vols, Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2008).
• Poynings’ law and the making of law in Ireland, 1660-1800, Irish Legal History Society, 2008, 401 pp.
• St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, 1875-2000: A history Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006, 288 pp.
• The Liberty and Ormond Boys: factional riots in eighteenth-century Dublin Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005, 288 pp.
• Sir Edward Newenham, MP, 1734-1814: Defender of the Protestant constitution Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003, 288 pp.