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Email

marshajo@tcd.ie

Twitter link

@jmarshallmed

Bio

Currently, I am the RHS Centenary Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research in London, and a final year PhD candidate in the School of Histories and Humanities, Trinity College Dublin, having previously obtained a BAJH and MA in History from DCU.
My research focuses on the transnational lordship of the Marshal family in the first half of the thirteenth century, with a particular emphasis on the themes of power and patronage.

Areas of expertise

My areas of expertise are lordship, the English conquest of Ireland, the March of Wales, and the relationship between the kings of England and the nobility.

Keywords

{medieval} {Ireland} {English lordship}

Member Details

Nickname

John Marshall

Membership Type

Graduate Historian

Experience

Education

2016-19 BAJH in DCU
2019-20 MA in History in DCU
2020-Current PhD canditate at TCD

Consultancy work

I am currently an external reviewer for Past Tense Graduate Review of History, University of Toronto. As part of this role I review submitted papers relating to my expertise of medieval Ireland and its conquest, economy and settlement.

Teaching

(October 2022–) Teacher of Irish History night course at Blackrock Further Education Institute, Dublin.

(September 2021–); Teaching Assistant at Trinity College Dublin.

 

Outreach activities

(September 2022–) Occasional speaker for EIL Intercultural Learning.

(September 2021–) Contributor to RTÉ Brainstorm

Committees & Associations

Elected Early Career Member of the Royal Historical Society

Member of The Royal Society of Antiquaries Ireland

Member of the Forum for Medieval and Renaissance studies in Ireland

Member of the Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement

Awards

2023–4: Awarded the 6-month RHS Centenary Fellowship, tenable at the Institute of Historical Research, London

2022–3: Awarded the highly competitive Cluff Memorial Studentship from Trinity College Dublin

2022–3: Awarded the Grace Lawless Lee Fund from  Trinity College Dublin to support a research trip

2022: Awarded the Irish Legal History Society’s Student Bursary

2022: Awarded a travel grant from the Trinity Trust

Other activities

International Research Papers

‘Inheritance recovery and the ambiguity of partition: the case of the Marshal inheritance, 1245–96’ at Thirteenth Century England XIX, Cambridge from 12–13 September 2022.

‘An Irish bishop, William Marshal, and the Pontiff in-between’ at Papacy and Periphery, c.1050-c.1300, University of St. Andrews (virtual) on 22 October 2021.

‘Enduring links: the partition of the Marshal transnational lordship, 1247’ at the Irish Conference of Medievalists (ICM) at Queens University Belfast (virtual) on 25 June 2021.

Publications

Book Chapters
  • ‘Always bad timing? The role of Plantagenet domestic politics in Anglo-German relations’ in Nicholas Vincent and Jörg Peltzer (eds), Thirteenth Century England XX: Proceedings of the Heidelberg Conference, 2023 (Cambridge, 2025)
  • ‘The ambiguity of partition, the case of the Marshal inheritance, 1247–96’ in Julie Barrau, Christopher Briggs, Andrew Spencer, and Carl Watkins (eds), Thirteenth Century England XIX: Proceedings of the Cambridge Conference, 2022 (Cambridge, 2024).
  • ‘Using a partition to analyse transnational settlement: the case of the Marshal inheritance, 1245–7’ in Matthew Stout and Geraldine Stout (eds), Sea and settlement in Ireland: an international perspective (Dublin, 2024).

 

Peer Reviewed Journals
  • ‘The partition of the estates of the Marshal earls of Pembroke and lords of Leinster, 1247’ in Analecta Hibernica: the journal of the Irish Manuscripts Commission, 54 (2024).
  •  ‘The pope, a knight, and a bishop on the edge of Christendom: the politics of exclusion in thirteenth-century Ireland’ in Irish Historical Studies, 47:172 (2023), 175-91.
  • ‘A community in competition: the barons of Leinster in thirteenth-century Ireland’ in History: The Journal of the Historical Association, 108:382 (2023), 421-45.
Reviews

Review of ‘Ireland and the Crusades’. Edited by Edward Coleman, Paul Duffy and Tadhg O’Keeffe (Dublin, 2022), in Studia Hibernica, 49 (2023), 176-8.

Other

‘The royal visit: what did Henry II do in Ireland 850 years ago?’, RTÉ Brainstorm (January 2022), https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2022/0113/1273519-henry-ii-ireland-1171-strongbow-dublin-charter/.

‘The partition of Ireland 774 years ago’, RTÉ Brainstorm (September 2021),

https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2021/0930/1249859-medieval-ireland-leinster-partition-1247-william-marshal.

‘The remnants of William Marshal’s lordship in Leinster today’, History Ireland, 29:4 (July/August 2021).

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