Prof Marian Lyons

    History

    Professor of History

    Rhetoric House
    48
    (01) 708 3630

    Biography

    Research Interests

    Marian (Mary Ann) Lyons has published extensively on Franco-Irish relations and on Irish migration to continental Europe in the early modern period, and is particularly interested in jacobite migrants in Paris, c.1690-c.1730.She has also published on various aspects of Irish history including the Kildare dynasty, religion in late medieval and early modern Ireland, women, and the emergence of professional medicine from the early 1600s onwards. She has co-edited several essay collections on Irish migration to Europe in the early modern period, jointly curated the ‘Strangers to Citizens: the Irish in Europe, 1600-1800’ exhibition at the National Library of Ireland (2007-09) and co-authored Strangers to citizens: the Irish in Europe, 1600-1800 (2008). She is currently working on a biography of Thomas Arthur, M.D., of Limerick.  Arising from her interest in local history, she is General Editor of the Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History series (Four Courts Press), and joint editor, together with Daithí Ó Corráin of The Irish Revolution 1912-23 series (Four Courts Press).

    Book

    Year Publication
    2014 J. Kelly with M. Lyons (2014) The proclamations of Ireland 1660-1820 (5 vols). Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission.
    2008 Thomas O'Connor, Mary Ann Lyons (2008) Strangers to citizens: the Irish in Europe, 1600-1800. Bray: Wordwell Press.
    1998 M. Lyons (1998) Gearóid Óg, the ninth earl of Kildare. Dundalk: Dundalgan Press.
    2003 Mary Ann Lyons (2003) France and Ireland, 1500-1610: politics, migration and trade. Woodbridge: The Royal Historical Society and Boydell & Brewer.
    2000 M. Lyons (2000) Church and society in County Kildare, c.1470-1547. Dublin: Four Courts Press.

    Book Chapter

    Year Publication
    2022 Mary Ann Lyons (2022) 'The politics of pageantry: the participation of Dublin guilds in public-facing ceremonial and celebratory events, 1660-c.1770' In: Politics and political culture in Ireland from Restoration to Union, 1660-1800. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
    2022 Mary Ann Lyons & Brian Mac Cuarta (2022) 'Introduction' In: The Jesuit mission in early modern Ireland, 1560-1760. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
    2022 Mary Ann Lyons (2022) 'Women and Jesuit ministry in Ireland, 1600-1670' In: The Jesuit mission in early modern Ireland, 1560-1760. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
    2022 Mary Ann Lyons, Raymond Gillespie & James Kelly (2022) 'Introduction' In: Politics and political culture in Ireland from Restoration to Union, 1660-1800. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
    2021 Mary Ann Lyons (2021) 'Shape-changing at dawn on a May Day in Clare' In: The historian as detective - uncovering Irish pasts: essays in honour of Raymond Gillespie. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
    2021 Lyons M.A. (2021) 'Introduction - The tercentenary of the Polish Princess Clementina's escape' In: The Irish to the rescue: The tercentenary of the Polish Princess Clementina's escape. UK : Peter Lang.
    2018 M. Lyons (2018) 'Concepts of citizenship in Ireland during an era of revolutions, 1688-1798' In: Enfranchising Ireland? Identity, citizenship and state. Dublin : Royal Irish Academy.
    2018 Lyons M. (2018) 'The onset of religious reform: 1460-1550' In: The Cambridge History of Ireland. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. [DOI]
    2017 M. Lyons (2017) 'Towards a Catholic history for a Catholic nation: the contribution of Irish émigré scholars in Europe, c.1580-c.1630' In: Representing Irish religious histories: historiography, ideology and practice. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave MacMillan.
    2017 Mary Ann Lyons & Jacqueline Hill (2017) 'Introduction' In: Representing Irish religious histories: historiography, ideology and practice. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave MacMillan.
    2016 M. Lyons (2016) 'Philip O’Sullivan Beare’s sensational representation of the death of Spain’s ‘mortallest enemy’, Sir John Norris (1547x50-1597)' In: Death and the Irish: a miscellany. Dublin : Wordwell.
    2015 Salvador Ryan and Clodagh Tait (eds) (2015) 'The limits of Old English liberty: the case of Thomas Arthur, M.D. (1593–1675) in Limerick and Dublin' In: , Religion and politics in urban Ireland, c.1500-c.1750: essays in honour of Colm Lennon. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
    2013 M .Lyons (2013) 'St Anthony's College, Louvain, Gaelic texts and articulating Irish identity, 1607-' In: Irish Europe: language, learning and texts, 1600-1660. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
    2010 M. Lyons (2010) 'The role of graduate physicians in professionalizing medical practice in Ireland, c.1619-54' In: Ireland and medicine in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Farnham : Ashgate.
    2009 M. Lyons (2009) 'The role of St Anthony's College, Louvain in establishing the Irish Franciscan college network, 1607-60' In: The Irish Franciscans, 1534-1990. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
    2005 M. Lyons (2005) 'Foreign language books, 1550-1700' In: The history of the Irish book, vol. 3: The Irish book in English, 1550-1800. Oxford : Oxford University Press.

    Edited Book

    Year Publication
    2022 Mary Ann Lyons & Daithi O Corrain (Ed.). (2022) Pauric Travers (author) Donegal: The Irish Revolution, 1912-23. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2022 Mary Ann Lyons, Raymond Gillespie & James Kelly (Ed.). (2022) Politics and political culture in Ireland from Restoration to Union, 1660-1800. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2022 Mary Ann Lyons & Brian Mac Cuarta (Ed.). (2022) The Jesuit mission in Early Modern Ireland, 1560-1760. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2021 Mary Ann Lyons, Terence Dooley & Salvador Ryan (Ed.). (2021) The historian as detective - unconvering Irish pasts: essays in honour of Raymond Gillespie. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2021 Mary Ann Lyons & Daithi O Corrain (Ed.). (2021) John Burke (author) Roscommon: The Irish Revolution, 1912-23. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2021 Mary Ann Lyons & Daithi O Corrain (Ed.). (2021) Brian Feeney (author) Antrim: The Irish Revolution, 1912-23. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2020 Mary Ann Lyons & Daithi O Corrain (Ed.). (2020) Patrick McGarty (author) Leitrim: The Irish Revolution, 1912-23. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2020 Mary Ann Lyons & Daithi O Corrain (Ed.). (2020) Seamus Cullen (author) Kildare: The Irish Revolution, 1912-23. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2019 Mary Ann Lyons & Daithi O Corrain (Ed.). (2019) Donal Hall (author) Louth: The Irish Revolution, 1912-23. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2018 Mary Ann Lyons & Daithi O Corrain (Ed.). (2018) John O'Callaghan (author) Limerick: The Irish Revolution, 1912-23. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2018 Mary Ann Lyons & Daithi O Corrain (Ed.). (2018) Adrian Grant (author) Derry: The Irish Revolution, 1912-23. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2017 Mary Ann Lyons & Daithi O Corrain (Ed.). (2017) Terence Dooley (author) Monaghan:The Irish Revolution, 1912-23. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2017 Mary Ann Lyons & Jacqueline Hill (Ed.). (2017) Representing Irish religious histories: historiography, ideology and practice. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan,
    2015 M. Lyons (Ed.). (2015) Tadhg O'Keeffe, Medieval Irish buildings (Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History series No. 18). Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2015 Mary Ann Lyons & Daithi O Corrain (Ed.). (2015) Pat McCarthy (author) Waterford: the Irish Revolution, 1912-23. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2014 Mary Ann Lyons & Daithi O Corrain (Ed.). (2014) Fergal McCluskey (author) Tyrone: the Irish Revolution, 1912-23. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2013 Mary Ann Lyons & James Kelly (Ed.). (2013) Death and dying in Ireland, Britain and Europe: historical perspectives. Sallins: Irish Academic Press,
    2012 M. Lyons (Ed.). (2012) Pugin at Maynooth. Maynooth: Maynooth University,
    2012 Mary Ann Lyons & Daithi O Corrain (Ed.). (2012) Michael Farry (author) Sligo: the Irish Revolution, 1912-23. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2010 Mary Ann Lyons (Ed.). (2010) Travellers' accounts as source-material for Irish historians (Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History series No. 15). Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2010 Mary Ann Lyons (Ed.). (2010) Susan Parkes (author) A guide to sources for the history of Irish education, 1780-1922 (Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History series No. 17). Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2010 Thomas O'Connor, Mary Ann Lyons (Ed.). (2010) The Ulster earls and baroque Europe. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2010 Mary Ann Lyons (Ed.). (2010) Ciaran O hOgartaigh & Margaret O hOgarthaigh (authors) usiness archival sources for the local historian (Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History series No. 16). Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2009 Mary Ann Lyons (Ed.). (2009) Katharine Simms (author) Medieval Gaelic sources (Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History series No. 14). Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2008 Mary Ann Lyons (Ed.). (2008) Liam Kelly (author) Photographs and photography in Irish local history (Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History series No. 13). Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2007 Mary Ann Lyons (Ed.). (2007) The big houses and landed estates of Ireland: a research guide (expanded and updated edition of Maynooth Research Guides in Local History series No. 1). Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2007 Mary Ann Lyons (Ed.). (2007) Patrick J. Duffy, Exploring the history and heritage of Irish landscapes (Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History series no. 12). Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2006 Mary Ann Lyons & Thomas O'Connor (Ed.). (2006) Irish communities in early-modern Europe. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2005 Mary Ann Lyons & Fionnuala Waldron (Ed.). (2005) Perspectives on equality: the second Seamus Heaney lectures. Dublin: The Liffey Press,
    2005 Mary Ann Lyons (Ed.). (2005) T.C. Barnard, A guide to sources for the history of material culture in Ireland, 1500-2000 (Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History series No. 10). Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2005 Mary Ann Lyons (Ed.). (2005) Brian Griffin (author), Sources for the study of crime in Ireland, 1801-1921 (Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History series No. 9). Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2004 Mary Ann Lyons (Ed.). (2004) Brian Hanley (author), A guide to Irish military heritage (Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History series No. 7). Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2004 Mary Ann Lyons (Ed.). (2004) Jacinta Prunty (ed.), Maps and map-making in local history (Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History series No. 8). Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2003 Thomas O'Connor & Mary Ann Lyons (Ed.). (2003) Irish migrants in Europe after Kinsale, 1602-1820. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2003 Mary Ann Lyons & Joost Augusteijn (Ed.). (2003) Irish history: a research yearbook series, 2. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2003 Mary Ann Lyons (Ed.). (2003) E.M. Crawford (author), Counting the people: a survey of the Irish censuses, 1813-1911 (Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History series No. 6). Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2002 Mary Ann Lyons (Ed.). (2002) Raymond Refausse (author), Church of Ireland records (Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History series No. 2). Dublin: Irish Academic Press & Four Courts Press,
    2002 Mary Ann Lyons (Ed.). (2002) Philomena Connolly (author), Medieval record sources. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2002 Mary Ann Lyons & Joost Augusteijn (Ed.). (2002) Irish history: a research yearbook series, 1. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2002 Mary Ann Lyons (Ed.). (2002) Brian Gurrin (author), Pre-census sources for Irish demongraphy (Maynooth Research Guide for Irish Local History series No. 5). Dublin: Four Courts Press,
    2001 Mary Ann Lyons (Ed.). (2001) P.J. Corish & D. Sheehy (authors), Records of the Irish Catholic Church (Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History series No. 3). Dublin: Irish Academic Press,
    2000 Mary Ann Lyons (Ed.). (2000) Sources for the history of landed estates in Ireland (Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History series No. 1). Dublin: Irish Academic Press,

    Peer Reviewed Journal

    Year Publication
    2015 M. Lyons (2015) 'The professionalisation of Irish medicine in the generations before Charles Lucas'. Irish Journal of Medical Science, 184 (3):551-553. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2011 Joint editor (2011) 'Irish Historical Studies'. Irish Historical Studies, .
    2008 M. Lyons (2008) ''Digne de compassion': female dependents of Irish jacobite soldiers in France, c.1692-c.1730'. Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 23 :55-75. [Full-Text]
    2005 Lyons, M. (2005) 'The interrogation of Matthew Barnewall, an Irish Jansenist imprisoned in the Bastille, 1712-13'. Archivium Hibernicum, lix :79-89. [Full-Text]

    Other Journal

    Year Publication
    2023 Mary Ann Lyons (editor) (2023) 'Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society' Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society, xxiv .
    2021 Mary Ann Lyons (editor) (2021) 'Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society' Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society, xxiii .
    2019 Mary Ann Lyons (editor) (2019) 'Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society' Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society, xxii .
    2016 Mary Ann Lyons (2016) 'Reflections on the Decade of Commemoration' Riocht na Midhe, xxvii .
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