The O’Donnell Lectures

Previous O’Donnell Lectures published by NUI are as follows:

Year of Lecture Number Title of Lecture/Publication Author

Lecture in the Series

1957 I The O'Neills in Spain Micheline Walsh

1958 II Justin MacCarthy, Lord Mountcashel John A Murphy MA

1959 III Daniel O'Connor Sligo: His Family and His Times Sir Charles Petrie MA (Oxon)

1960 IV The MacDonnells of Antrim on the Continent Micheline Walsh

1961 V Thomas Francis Meagher Professor Denis Gwynn DLitt,

FRHistSoc, MRIA

1962 VI Napper Tandy and the European Crisis of 1798-1803 Síle Ní Chinnéide

1963 VII Charles Gavan Duffy and the Repeal Movement Kevin B Nowlan MA, PhD

1964 VIII Waterford Merchants Abroad Seamus Pender

1965 IX Captain Myles Walter Keogh, United States Army 1840-1876 Gerard A Hayes-McCoy MA, PhD,
DLitt, MRIA
1966 X Toirdbleach Ó Conchubair (1088-1156), King of Connacht, King of Ireland, Professor John Ryan (SJ) MA, DLitt
Co. Freasabra
1967 XI The Study of Family History in Ireland Professor John G. Barry MA PhD

1968 XII The Influence of the Irish on the Catholic Church in America in the 19th Patrick K Egan (PP), PhD
Century

1969 XIII The Rise of Uí Néill and the High-kingship of Ireland Professor Francis John Byrne MA

1970 XIV The Nineteenth Century Novel and Irish Social History; Some Aspects Professor Oliver McDonagh MA,
PhD
1972 XVI Irish Families: The Archival Aspects Robert W Dudley Edwards BA, MA,
DLitt

1974 XVIII The Formation of the Old English Elite in Ireland Nicholas P Canny BA, MA PhD

1975 XIX No Hero in the House; Diarmait MacMurchada and the coming of the Francis X Martin (OSA), MA
Normans to Ireland

1976 XX Land, Law and Society in 16th Century Ireland K W Nicholls

1977 XXI Thomas Drummond and the Government of Ireland 1835-41 M A Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh MA

1979 XXII Democracy and its 19th Century Irish Critics Donal McCartney MA, PhD

1979 XXIII The Catholic Middle Classes in Pre-Famine Cork John B O'Brien MA, PhD

1981 XXIV Irish Population before Petty, Problems and Possibilities Gearóid MacNiocaill PhD, DLitt
1983 XXV The Four Leaved Shamrock, Electoral Politics and the National Imagination Ronan Fanning BA, PhD, (Cantab)
in Independent Ireland MRIA

1984 XXVI Maria Edgeworth and the Colonial Mind Tom Dunne PhD

1986 XXVII The Pale and the Far North Government and Society in two early Tudor Steven G Ellis MA, PhD, FRHistS
Borderlands

1999 XXVIII The Urban Patriciates in early modern Ireland: a case-study of Limerick Colm Lennon MA, PhD

2002 XXX The Academy of Warre: Military Affairs in Ireland, 1600 – 1800 Thomas Bartlett PhD, MRIA

2003 XXXI The First Century of Anglo-Irish Relations (AD 600-700) Dáibhí Ó Cróinín MPhil, PhD

2004 XXXII An Irish Jansenist in seventeenth-century France: John Callaghan 1605-54 Thomas O’Connor BA, PHD (Paris)

2008 XXXIII The Irish State and the Diaspora Professor Mary E Daly MA, DPhil