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Catholic missionaries in a territory of Reunion: The French Crown and the Congregation of the Mission in Sedan, 1642-57
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A Catholic model of martyrdom in the Post-Reformation era: the Bishop in Seventeenth-Century France
(Taylor & Francis, 2005)By the seventeenth century, episcopal martyrdom was an established reality and ideal throughout the Catholic church. Bishops could pay homage to the celebrated prelates of the early church who had gone bravely to their ... -
The Catholic reformation in seventeenth-century Ireland: Vincent de Paul's Missionaries in Munster
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Civil war in El Salvador and the origins of rights-based humanitarianism
(Cambridge University Press, 2020-06-03)This article traces the global humanitarian sector s late twentieth-century embrace of human rights to the brutal civil conflict in El Salvador in the 1980s. Drawing on evidence from NGOs in three Anglophone states (Britain, ... -
The collapse of the Gaelic world, 1450-1650.
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A crisis of lordship: Robert Ogle, Fifth Lord Ogle, and the rule of early Tudor Northumberland
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-03-23)Henry Tudor’s diffusion of power in the English far north, and his savage pruning of resources for his wardens there to maintain good rule and defence, were perhaps necessary steps initially to prevent further challenges ... -
England in the Tudor state
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The English Pale: 'a failed entity'?
(Wordwell Ltd., 2011-03)It is hardly surprising that Irish historians have been reluctant to engage with negative later medieval English perceptions of Ireland (see sidebar below), other than to impugn their veracity. In regard to the English ... -
Family and power: Incest and Ireland, 1880-1950
(Irish Academic Press, 2011-06-17)[No abstract available] -
"Fascinating scalpel-wielders and fair dissectors": women's experience of Irish medical education, c. 1880s-1920s.
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'Fathers, Leaders, Kings': episcopacy and episcopal reform in the seventeenth-century French School
(Taylor & Francis, 2002)In their drive to ‘sanctify’ the clergy, seventeenth-century French clerical reformers developed highly sophisticated and influential theologies of both priesthood and episcopacy. This article traces the development of the ... -
‘Found in a “dying” condition’: nurse-children in Ireland, 1872–1952
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From generation to generation: World War II narratives in transition
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From travel to mobility: Perspectives on journeys in the Russian, Central and East European past
(Routledge, 2019-03-28)This chapter introduces the “new mobilities paradigm” and argues for its application to the modern history of Russia, central and east Europe. It charts the emergence of this approach in the context of the more established ... -
A "global nervous system": The rise and rise of European humanitarian NGOs
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)Going a step beyond the guiding principle of Amnesty International and the human rights movement that individuals could change the policies of foreign governments humanitarian NGOs emphasised the power of ... -
Globalising the Easter Rising: 1916 and the challenge to empires
(Routledge, 2017-11-16)The year 1916 has recently been identified as “a tipping point for the intensification of protests, riots, uprisings and even revolutions.”1 Many of these constituted a challenge to the international pre-war order of ...