Dr Ciaran Reilly

Dr Ciaran Reilly
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of History, NUI Maynooth
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Email: 
ciaran.j.reilly@nuim.ie

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Ciarán Reilly, BA, HDIH, MA, was an IRCHSS Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar 2008-2010 and completed his Ph.D thesis, ‘Land agents and estate management in King’s County during the Great Famine 1838-53’ under the supervision of  Dr Terence Dooley. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow attached to the Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses & Estates where he is carrying out research on the Strokestown Park House Archive which is presently deposited in the OPW/NUI Research and Archive Centre at Castletown.

 

Publications

Books

Chapters in books

  • ‘The burning of country houses in Co. Offaly during the revolutionary period, 1920-23’ in Terence Dooley and Christopher Ridgeway (eds) The Irish Country House: its past, present and future (Dublin, 2011), pp 110-133
  • ‘Clearing the estate to fill the workhouse: King’s County land agents and the Irish Poor Law Act of 1838’ in Virginia Crossman and Peter Gray (eds) Poverty and welfare in Ireland 1838-1948 (Dublin, 2011)
  • ‘The Famine in King’s County’ in John Crowley and William Smyth (eds), An Atlas of the Great Famine (Cork, forthcoming 2012)

Articles in Journals

  • ‘Industrial disputes and tensions in 1930s Offaly’ in Offaly Heritage, vol 6 (2011)
  • ‘The Cartland’s of Ballykillen and Lumville: Landowners, middlemen, magistrates and yeomen’ in Offaly Heritage, vol 5 (2007)
  • ‘Edenderry and the First World War’ in Offaly Heritage, vol 5 (2007)

Other publications

  • Introduction in Old Ordnance Survey Maps: Edenderry 1911 (Forthcoming, London, 2011)
  • Foreword in Tom Burnell, The Offaly War Dead: Casualties of the First World War (Dublin, 2010) 

 

Conference and seminar papers

  • ‘Land agents and the management of landed estates 1835-1853’ at NUI Maynooth postgraduate research seminar 19 February 2009
  • ‘The murder of Hector John Toler, second earl of Norbury , King’s County 1839’ at the Irish History Students Annual Conference, NUI Maynooth 6-7 March 2009.
  • ‘The restoration of an Irish country house- the case of Ballybrittan House, county Offaly’ at the CSHIHE/ University of Catania Second Annual Conference, University of Catania, Sicily 25 May 2009
  • ‘Clearing the estate to fill the workhouse: King’s County land agents and the workhouses in 1840s’ at the Poverty & Welfare Conference, Queen’s University Belfast, 26-27 June 2009
  • Land agents and agriculture on the eve of the Great Famine’ at Irish History Students Annual Conference, Trinity College Dublin, 19 February 2010
  • ‘The Great Famine and the Leinster estate’ at Carton and the Fitzgerald’s conference, Carton House, 29 August 2010
  • ‘The Irish Land Agent and the Great Famine’ at An Gorta Mór (The Great Famine) Symposium, organised by An Foras Feasa, NUI Maynooth, 25 November 2010
  • ‘The Famine papers on deposit in the Castletown Archive and Research Centre: what they tell us about the Great Famine’ at OPW/CSHIHE Castletown Winter Lecture Series, 2 February 2011
  • ‘The Strokestown Famine papers: what do they reveal about the Great Famine at local level?’ at Strokestown Park House Winter Lecture Series, 16 February 2011
  • ‘The Strokestown Park House archive: A new perspective on the Great Famine’ at ‘The Cost of Hunger, Past and Present’, The International Famine Conference, Strokestown Park House, County Roscommon, 22 May 2011

 

Public lectures

  • ‘The bearer of bad news and agrarian target: The role of the land agent in King’s County 1830-60’, at the Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society, Bury Quay, Tullamore 3 March 2008.
  • ‘Aspects of the Irish revolution in Offaly 1919-23’, at the Blessington Historical Society, Blessington, County Wicklow 13 March 2008.
  • ‘The nineteenth century Irish land agent’ at Clane Library, Clane Co Kildare 27 August 2008 part of National Heritage Week 2008
  • ‘The historic houses of Offaly’ at Edenderry Historical Society, Edenderry Co. Offaly 29 August 2008 part of National Heritage Week 2008
  •  ‘The historic houses of county Offaly’ at Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society, Tullamore, 19 January 2009
  • ‘The nineteenth century Irish land agent and the Great Famine’ at Kill Historical Society, county Kildare, 27 April 2009
  • ‘An Irish Catholic landlord in the 1840s: Robert Cassidy and the management of his King’s County estate’ at Monasterevin Historical Society, county Kildare, 21 May 2009
  • ‘The fortunes of Charleville Castle during the mid nineteenth century’, Charleville Castle, Tullamore, National Heritage week, 23 August 2010
  • ‘The Famine diary of John Plunket Joly, 1843-48’ at the Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society, Tullamore, 21 February 2011
  • ‘Sources for the study of Offaly’s landed estates, 1550-1950’ at the Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society, Tullamore, 14 April 2011