THE CHURCH OF IRELAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY

The next meeting of the Society will be held in the Henry Roe Room (previously known as the Music Room) of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin on Saturday 28 September 2024.

PROGRAMME

• 10.30 Tea/Coffee and Registration
• 11.00 am Michael O’Neill, A brief introduction to the architectural inheritance of the Church of Ireland.
• 12.00 pm Naomi McAreavey, ‘Through the Flames: Protestant Witnesses and Fire Trauma in the 1641 Rebellion’
• 1.00 pm Lunch
• 2.00 pm Danielle Clarke, ‘Anne Southwell, and the Church of Ireland in Munster’
• 3.00 pm Ian d’Alton, ‘Old loyalties, new loyalties? – a southern Protestant searches for identity in history, lives and literatures.’

SPEAKERS

• Michael O’Neill is an architectural historian and digital archivist. His most recent publication is An Architectural History of the Church of Ireland (2023, 394pp)—see also https://archdrawing.ireland.anglican.org/items/.
Currently, he is digitising the Baptismal, Marriage and Burial Registers held in the RCB Library.

• Naomi McAreavey is an Associate Professor in UCD School of English, Drama and Film. Her research focuses on women’s life writing in seventeenth-century Ireland and she is currently working on a book on memory, trauma and resilience in the 1641 Depositions.

• Danielle Clarke is Professor of Renaissance Literature at University College Dublin. She has written extensively on early modern women’s writing, and recent projects include The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English, 1540-1700, edited with Sarah Ross and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, a special issue of Women’s Writing devotedto the work of Isabella Whitney, and a forthcoming edition of recipe books from Birr Castle in County Offaly, Ireland. Current projects include an edition of the poetry of Lady Anne Southwell (with Victoria Burke and Christina Luckyj), and a monograph with the working title Becoming Human: Time, Nature and Devotion in Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1700.

• Ian d’Altonis a graduate of UCC and Peterhouse, Cambridge. A former CEO of an Irish state-owned company, Ian is an historian, author of Protestant society and politics in Cork, 1812 1844 (Cork University Press, 1980). With Dr Ida Milne, he has co-edited a volume of contributed essays –ProtestantandIrish: the minority’s search for place in independent Ireland (Cork UP, 2019). His collection of essays –Southern Irish Protestants – Histories, Lives & Literatures: exploring
minority identity (Eastwood Books) is due out in September

Registration and Attendance
Attendance is free to all paid-up members. Non-members can purchase a one-day membership for €10/£10.

Membership
The annual subscription is fixed at €40/£40 (student rate £15/€15). This includes admission to our bi-annual conferences. Subscriptions may be paid on the membership section of the Society’s website.

Lunch will be available in the Music Room at a cost of £10/€10.

Queries may be addressed to the honorary secretaries, Professor Alan Ford or Dr Miriam Moffitt, by email (moc.liamg@shioc.yraterces).

Alternatively, you can visit the society’s website for further details about the conference (and more!).