About me
| Bio | I am a lecturer in early modern Irish and British history at Queen's University Belfast. I am an early modern historian, specialising in various aspects of the history of seventeenth-century Ireland but with particular interests also in British, Central European and Medical History. I was awarded a PhD at NUI Galway in 2009 for a dissertation entitled 'Transplantation to Connacht, 1641-1680: theory and practice'. From 2010 to 2013 I was a Government of Ireland CARA Postdoctoral Fellow at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Freiburg. Until 2016 I was employed at TCD as a Research Associate and at the University of Exeter as an Associate Research Fellow working on 'The medical world of early modern England, Wales and Ireland, c.1500-1715'. |
| Areas of expertise | Irish History, British History, Early Modern Bohemia, History of Medicine, Historiography, Migration, Uses of the Past |
| Keywords | Early Modern History, Early Modern Ireland, Early Modern Britain, Bohemia, Medical History, Historiography, Uses of the Past, Landownership, Religion, Oliver Cromwell, the Interregnum |
Member Details
| Full Name | John Cunningham (Professional Historian) |
| Membership Type | Professional Historian |
Experience
| Education | 2009 PhD in History NUI Galway 2005 BA in History and English NUI Galway |
| Employment | 2016- Lecturer in Early Modern Irish and British History, Queen's University Belfast 2013-2016 Associate Research Fellow, History Department, University of Exeter (0.5 FTE): 'The medical world of early modern England, Wales and Ireland, c. 1500-1715' 2013–2016 Research Fellow, History Department, Trinity College Dublin (0.5 FTE) 2010-2013 Government of Ireland CARA Postdoctoral Mobility Fellow in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Trinity College Dublin and the University of Freiburg: Crisis, conflict and change in seventeenth-century Ireland and Bohemia |
| Consultancy work | 2015 – Consultant on legal case in relation to sale of noble titles. 2010 – Placenames Researcher on the 1641 Depositions Project, Trinity College Dublin and the University of Aberdeen (2 months, part time) 2009-10 – Investigator for an IMC Pilot Project on the digitisation of the Books of Survey and Distribution (5 months, part time) |
| Management & Administrative experience | I have experience of a wide range of the responsibilities associated with teaching and with organising conferences at university level. I am on the organising committee for the Tudor & Stuart Ireland Conference at QUB in 2018. In 2015 I organised a conference on 'The Medical World of Early Modern Ireland' at TCD. In 2008 I was responsible for the Irish History Students' Association Annual Conference at NUI Galway. |
| Teaching | At QUB – HIS1002 Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe; HIS1003 Elites, Wealth and Power in Early Modern Ireland; HIS3120 The British Republic: Culture, Religion and War, 1649-1660; HIS3121 The War of Ideas in Seventeenth Century Ireland; MHY7020 Becoming a Historian In 2012 and again in 2016 I taught an honours seminar module at TCD entitled 'The nobility in early modern Ireland'. Between 2007 and 2010 I taught tutorials across a range of History courses at NUI Galway. In 2010 I was responsible for teaching part of a lecture module on the subject of 'The Tudors: religion, state and society' at NUI Galway. In 2008 and 2009 I delivered introductory lectures on seventeenth-century Ireland to the MA class in Irish Studies. |
| Outreach activities | I have delivered talks on a range of subjects at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, the Moate Historical Society, the Old Drogheda Society, the Irish Genealogical Society, the Sligo Field Club, the Drumraney Heritage Group, the Cromwell Association and Ballintubber Abbey (Octocentenary Lecture Series). I have contributed to various blogs. In 2016 I was a contributor to a BBC Radio NI programme entitled 'Was Cromwell Really All That Bad?' |
| Committees & Associations | Secretary, Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies |
| Awards | 2013 NUI Publications Prize in Irish History for my monograph Conquest and land in Ireland: the transplantation to Connacht, 1649-1680 |
Publications
| Books | Conquest and land in Ireland: the transplantation to Connacht, 1649-1680 (Royal Historical Society Studies in History, new series, lxxxii, 2011) John Cunningham (ed.), Early modern Ireland and the world of medicine: practitioners, collectors and contexts (forthcoming) |
| Book Chapters | 'Politics, 1641-1660', in Jane Ohlmeyer, ed., The Cambridge History of Ireland: vol. 2, Early Modern Ireland, 1550-1730 (forthcoming, 2018) The history of medicine in early modern Ireland: some problems and opportunities’, in Sarah Covington, Valerie McGowan-Doyle and Vincent Carey (eds), New directions in early modern Irish history (forthcoming, 2018) ‘The New English, the past and the law in the 1640s: Sir William Parsons's “Examen Hiberniae”’, in Coleman Dennehy (ed.), Lawyers and the law in the interregnum (Irish Legal History Society, forthcoming, 2018) ‘Cromwellian County Mayo’, in Gerard Moran and Nollaig Ó Muraíle, eds., Mayo: history and society (Dublin, 2014), 207-28 ‘1641 and the shaping of Cromwellian Ireland’, in Eamon Darcy, Annaleigh Margey and Elaine Murphy, eds., The 1641 depositions and the Irish rebellion (London, 2012), 155-67 ‘The Gookin-Lawrence pamphlet debate and transplantation in Cromwellian Ireland’, in Ciara Breathnach, Liam Chambers, Catherine Lawless and Anthony McElligott, eds., Power in history: from the medieval to the post-modern world (Historical Studies xxvii, 2011), 63-80 |
| Peer Reviewed Journals | 'Anatomising Irish Rebellion: the Cromwellian Delinquency Commissions, the Books of Discrimination and the 1641 Depositions', Irish Historical Studies, xl (2016), 22-42 ‘Divided conquerors: Cromwell’s army, the Rump parliament and Ireland, 1649-1653’, English Historical Review, cxxix (2014), 830-61 ‘Lay Catholicism and religious policy in Cromwellian Ireland’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, lxiv (2013), 769-86 ‘The transplanters’ certificates and the historiography of Cromwellian Ireland’, Irish Historical Studies, xxxvii (2011), 376-95 ‘Oliver Cromwell and the “Cromwellian” settlement of Ireland’, Historical Journal, liii (2010), 919-37 |
| Other Journals | ‘Cromwell and the Irish land settlement’, Cromwelliana: the Journal of the Cromwell Association, 3rd ser., no. 3 (2014), 50-63 |
| Reviews | Review of Salvador Ryan and Clodagh Tait (eds), Religion and politics in urban Ireland, c. 1500- c. 1750: essays in honour of Colm Lennon (Dublin 2016), in Urban History, xliv (2017), 575-77 Review of Robert Armstrong, Protestant war: the ‘British’ of Ireland and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (Manchester 2005), in Irish Studies Review, xvii (Nov. 2009), 519-20 Review of Kevin Costello, The court of admiralty of Ireland, 1575-1893 (Dublin 2011), in Irish Historical Studies, xxxviii (2012), 137-8 |