Dr. Mary Ann (Marian) Lyons(Acting Head 2009-10)

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Contact Details

Office : D307, Department of History, St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, Ireland.

E-mail : Marian.Lyons@spd.dcu.ie

Phone: +353 1 884 2086

Fax: +353 1 8376197

Dr. Marian Lyons lectures in local studies, and Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. She is general editor of the Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History, joint editor of Irish History: a research yearbook and joint editor of the proceedings of The Irish in Europe Project Conference (National University of Ireland, Maynooth). Current research interests include Late Medieval County Kildare and French reactions to the Nine Years' War.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• Irish migration to Europe and migrant experiences on the Continent in the early modern period, with particular emphasis on France and specifically Jacobite migrants in Paris, c.1690-c.1730.
• Franco-Irish diplomatic and political relations in the sixteenth century.
• Ireland’s trading associations with France in the early modern era.
• A biographical study of one of Ireland’s leading physicians, Thomas Arthur, MD, of Limerick (1590-1675) who was educated at Bordeaux, Paris and Rheims.
• The Kildare dynasty in the fifteenth and sixteenth-century Ireland.
• The Protestant Reformation in Ireland.
• Women in late medieval and early modern Ireland.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

• France and Ireland, 1500-1610: politics, migration and trade (London: The Royal Historical Society, Brewer & Boydell, 2003).
• ‘Foreign language books, 1550-1700’ in Andrew Hadfield and Raymond Gillespie (eds), The History of the Irish Book, Volume 3: The Irish Book in English 1550-1800 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp 347-67.
• ‘The interrogation of Matthew Barnewall, an Irish Jansenist imprisoned in the Bastille, 1712-13’ in Archivium Hibernicum, lix (2005), pp 79-89.
• Co-author (with Thomas O’Connor) of Strangers to citizens: the Irish in Europe, 1600-1800 (Dublin: National Library of Ireland, 2008).
• Co-editor (with Thomas O’Connor) Irish communities in early modern Europe (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006).
• Co-editor (with Fionnuala Waldron) of Perspectives on Equality: The second Seamus Heaney Lectures (Dublin: The Liffey Press, 2005).
• Co-editor (with Thomas O’Connor) of Irish migrants in Europe after Kinsale, 1602-1820 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003).

EDITORIAL POSITIONS:

• Joint editor of Irish Historical Studies.
• General editor of the Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History series.