Dr Patrick Cosgrove

Dr Patrick Cosgrove
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of History, NUI Maynooth
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Email: 
patrick.j.cosgrove@nuim.ie

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Dr Patrick Cosgrove, BA, HDE, PhD, completed his doctoral thesis on the origins, operation and legacy of the Wyndham Land Act of 1903 in 2008. He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow working on the 1841 Irish testimonial to George Howard, Lord Morpeth. This unique pre-famine document, approximately 412 meters long and containing an estimated 300,000 signatures, was presented to Lord Morpeth to mark the end of his tenure as chief secretary in Ireland. Dr Cosgrove is investigating the testimonial’s provenance, the circumstances of its presentation and its historical context. His research interests include: the Irish land question; landlord-tenant relations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and land transfer in this period; nineteenth-century political testimonials and pre-Famine Irish politics and society. His article entitled ‘T.W. Russell and the compulsory land purchase campaign in Ulster, 1900-03’ appeared in the 2011 edition of the Irish Historical Studies journal.

Publications

  • ‘Irish landlords and the Wyndham Land Act, 1903’ in The Irish country house: its past, present and future (2011), pp 90-109.
  • ‘T.W. Russell and the compulsory land purchase campaign in Ulster, 1900-03’ in Irish Historical Studies, xxxvii, no.146  (November 2010), pp 221-240
  • Review of Fergus Campbell’s Land and Revolution. Nationalist politics in the west of Ireland 1891-1921 (Oxford, 2005) Institute of Historical Research Review, University of London (Online publication 2008)
  • ‘The sale of the Leinster estate under the Wyndham Land Act, 1903’ in Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society and Surrounding Districts, vol. xx (part1) (2008/9), pp 9-25.

Research Awards

Lord Walter Fitzgerald prize for a research essay on ‘The sale of the Leinster estate under the Wyndham Land Act, 1903’ published in the Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society and Surrounding Districts (2009)

Conference and seminar papers

  • “The richest heir-loom I could bequeath to the name I bear’: the 1841 Irish testimonial to Lord Morpeth’, Lord Morpeth Testimonial conference, NUI Maynooth (2010).
  • ‘The 1841 testimonial to Lord Morpeth: a remarkable new source for pre-Famine Ireland’, Research seminar, Department of History, NUI Maynooth (2010).
  • ‘Research into the 1841 Irish testimonial roll to Lord Morpeth’, Castle Howard seminar, Yorkshire, England (2009)
  • ‘The breakup of Irish estates under the 1903 Land Act: A case study of the sale of the Duke of Leinster’s estate,’ The First Annual Irish – Sicilian conference, NUI Maynooth (2007)
  • ‘The effect of the Wyndham Land Act, 1903 on Historic Irish Houses and Estates’, Fifth Annual Historic Houses of Ireland Conference, NUI Maynooth (2007)
  • ‘The Irish land question 1900-14’, Maynooth Postgraduate Colloquium, NUI Maynooth (2007)
  • ‘The operation of the Wyndham Land Act, 1903’, IHSA conference, Queen’s University Belfast (2007)
  • ‘The origins of the Wyndham Land Act, 1903; T.W. Russell and the compulsory purchase campaign in Ulster’, Research seminar, Department of History, NUI Maynooth (2006)

Public lectures

  • ‘The Lord Morpeth testimonial project at NUI Maynooth’, Association for Church Archives Ireland, All Hallows College, Drumcondra (2011).
  • ‘T. W. Russell and the Wyndham Land Act, 1903’, Seanchas Ard Mhacha/Armagh Diocesan Historical Society, Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich Library, Armagh (2011).
  • ‘The Leinster estate and the Irish land question, 1870-1908’, Maynooth Local History Society, Carton House, Maynooth (2011).

Teaching

  • 2011-present: Course lecturer for the NUI Maynooth Certificate in Local History, Strokestown, Co. Roscommon.
  • 2009-2011: Course lecturer for HY 154: ‘Richard Griffith’s Valuation and Irish Censuses, 1813-1911: A documentary study’.
  • 2010-present: Occasional lecturer for the M.A. in Historic House Studies.
  • 2005-2008: Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates (CSHIHE) Schools Liaison Officer.
  • 2005-2008: Occasional lecturer in local history for the B.A. in Local and Community Studies.
  • 2005-2011: History tutor for first, second and third year modules with the Department of History, NUI Maynooth.