Eoin Kinsella (Professional Historian)
2012
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| Bio | I have been the Managing Editor of the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Irish Biography since 2022. I am also the director of historyworks, a consultancy providing professional historical and research services in the fields of heritage and public history. Over the past fourteen years I’ve specialised in commemorative and institutional histories, along with the design and curation of large-scale research and historical projects. My expertise has allowed me to work with a variety of public and private bodies, including the Irish Dental Association, Irish Defence Forces, the National Archives of Ireland, Dublin City University, Leopardstown Park Hospital, the Commissioners of Irish Lights, the National Print Museum, the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Office of the Attorney General, the Polish Embassy, and the Department of the Taoiseach. I hold a doctorate in Irish history from University College Dublin, and certificates in Research Integrity and Intellectual Property (RIA/Epigeum). If you have a historical project that you would like to get started, or have some old records that you’d like to get assessed, please feel free to get in touch with me at eoinkinsella@gmail.com or http://www.linkedin.com/in/eoinkinsella. |
| Areas of expertise | Irish History, 1600 – 2000 Decade of Centenaries (1912 – 1923) Public History Exhibitions Institutional History |
| Keywords | consultant historian; historical consultant; historyworks; commemorations; public history; early modern; Ireland; Britain; sport; social history; political history; education history; modern history; Irish history; history of education; history of sport; decade of centenaries; professional historian; military history; institutional history |
| Nickname | Eoin Kinsella (Professional Historian) |
| Membership Type | Professional Historian |
| Education | • Ph.D. (Early Modern Irish History), University College Dublin, 2012. ‘The articles of surrender and the Williamite settlement of Ireland: a case study of Colonel John Browne (1640–1711)’ |
| Employment | Academic/Teaching Positions • Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow, 2012–2014 Research Positions Employer: I.R.C.H.S.S./Prof. Maurice Bric, University College Dublin, Jan. – Sept. 2012 Employer: Professor Seán McConville, Queen Mary College, University of London, Aug. 2011 – Jan. 2012 Employer: Oireachtas Library and Research Services/Inquest Research Co., Nov. 2011 Employer: Irish Independent newspaper, Oct. – Nov. 2011 Employer: Royal Irish Academy, Aug. 2009 – Mar. 2010 Employer: Royal Irish Academy, Jan. 2008 – Mar. 2010 Employer: RTÉ/Inquest Research Co., Feb. – November 2007 Employer: Royal Irish Academy/Professsor Diarmaid Ferriter, Oct. 2006 – Feb. 2007 Employer: Department of the Taoiseach, Mar. – Apr. 2006 |
| Consultancy work | During the last two years I have acted as a consultant for historical exhibitions and in the deposit of private archival material in the Library of Trinity College Dublin. I am currently a consultant historian with Leopardstown Park Hospital, Dublin, researching and writing a history of the hospital to mark their centenary year in 2017. In 2012 I assisted Mayo County Council in its assessment of early modern material among the Jackie Clarke Collection. I advised the curator as to which items should be selected for the exhibition attached to this unique collection and assisted in the writing of associated information panels (http://www.clarkecollection.ie/home/). My experience with the Jackie Clarke Collection led to my employment as a researcher and consultant for an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of Ireland’s accession to the European Economic Community. The exhibition was displayed at Collins Barracks and Dublin Castle and was brought on a national tour of local libraries in the latter half of 2013, and is also available online (http://tinyurl.com/khbddfh). In July 2013 I obtained permission from Lady Kilmaine of Shelfield House, Warwickshire, to consult her private family papers. While there I advised Lady Kilmaine regarding the donation of these papers to an Irish archive and acted as liaison between Lady Kilmaine and the library of Trinity College Dublin. The Kilmaine papers, which consist of the records of the Brownes of The Neale, Co. Mayo, and span the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, have since been donated to the university and will be made available to scholars once they have been catalogued. |
| Teaching | • School of History and Archives, U.C.D., Sept. 2014 – May 2015 |
| Outreach activities | Exhibitions |
| Committees & Associations | Member, Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society |
| Awards | • Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow, 2012–2014 |
| Books | • The Irish Dental Association: a centenary history (Dublin, 2023) • The Irish Defence Forces, 1922–200: servant of the nation (Dublin, 2023) • Dublin City University, 1980–2020: designed to be different (Dublin, 2020) • Catholic Survival in a Protestant Kingdom, 1660–1711: Colonel John Browne, Landownership and the Articles of Limerick (Woodbridge, 2018) • Leopardstown Park Hospital, 1917–2017: A Home For Wounded Soldiers (Dublin, 2017). • Gerard Hogan, The Origins of the Irish Constitution, 1928–1941, documents editor Eoin Kinsella (Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2012). • Mark Duncan, Eoin Kinsella and Paul Rouse, National College of Ireland: Past, Present and Future (Dublin: Liffey Press, 2007). |
| Book Chapters | • ‘“Dividing the Bear’s Skin Before She Is Taken”: Irish Catholics and Land in the Late Stuart Monarchy, 1683–1691’ in Coleman A. Dennehy (ed.), Restoration Ireland: Always Settling and Never Settled (Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2008), pp 161–78. • ‘Riotous Proceedings and the Cricket of Savages: Hurling and Football in Early Modern Ireland’ in Mike Cronin, William Murphy and Paul Rouse (eds), The Gaelic Athletic Association, 1884–2009 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009). |
| Peer Reviewed Journals | • ‘Hurling Matches in London (1733–1818) and New York (1781–2)’, with John Bergin, in Archivium Hibernicum, lxviii (2015), pp 139–67. |
| Reviews | • Review of James Kelly, Sport in Ireland, 1600—1840 (Dublin, 2014). Eighteenth-Century Ireland, xxx (2015), pp 168–70. |
| Other | • Biographical Entry on Denis Daly (c.1638–1721) in James McGuire and James Quinn (eds), Dictionary of Irish Biography (9 vols, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009). |
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