Power, Politics, and Personality in Sixteenth-Century Ireland: A Case Study of Christopher Nugent, Baron of Delvin

Thursday, December 15, 2022 - 18:30
Room 1.33, First Floor, Iontas, North Campus

Power, Politics, and Personality in Sixteenth-Century Ireland: A Case Study of Christopher Nugent, Baron of Delvin

Lecture to History Research Seminar.

All are welcome.

Dr Ruth A. Canning is a Senior Lecturer in History and Liverpool Hope University.  Prior to this, she held a three-year Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship at Concordia University in Montreal and University College Cork.  A historian of early modern Ireland and Anglo-Irish relations, Dr Canning’s research examines the socio-political impact of war on identity formation amongst Ireland's minority Old English population. She is the author of The Old English in Early Modern Ireland: The Palesmen and the Nine Years’ War, 1594-1603 (Boydell & Brewer, 2019) and has published widely on Ireland and the Old English during the late Elizabethan period.