NUIM Professorship for Marian Lyons

 

Dr Marian Lyons has been appointed Professor of History at NUIM.  She succeeds Professor Vincent Comerford in that position. A member of the History Department in St Patrick’s College Drumcondra since 1999, Dr 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. Current research interests include Late Medieval County Kildare and French reactions to the Nine Years' War  and Women in late medieval and early modern Ireland.

Dr Lyons is Joint Editor of Irish Historical Studies and General Editor of the Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History series. Her  publications include 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); ‘The interrogation of Matthew Barnewall, an Irish Jansenist imprisoned in the Bastille, 1712-13’ in Archivium Hibernicum, lix (2005), pp 79-89; with Thomas O’Connor,  Strangers to Citizens: the Irish in Europe, 1600-1800 (Dublin: National Library of Ireland, 2008); with Thomas O’Connor, Irish communities in early modern Europe (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006); with Thomas O’Connor ), The Ulster Earls and Baroque Europe re-fashioning Irish identities 1600-1800 (Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2010); with Fionnuala Waldron,  Perspectives on Equality: The second Seamus Heaney Lectures (Dublin: The Liffey Press, 2005); with Thomas O’Connor, Irish migrants in Europe after Kinsale, 1602-1820 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003).

 

 

 

 

 

Last Updated: Tuesday August 10 2010