Hiram Morgan

Hiram Morgan (born Belfast 1960) was educated at St Patrick's College Knock, 1971-78 and studied BA to PhD at Cambridge, 1979-87. He held various research fellowships and posts from '88 to '95 and has been lecturing in history at UCC since 1996. He has authored Tyrone's Rebellion, published by the Royal Historical Society (1993) and edited Political Ideology in Ireland (1999), Information and Media Through the Ages (2001) and The Battle of Kinsale (2004). He co-authored with John Barry Great Deeds in Ireland (2013) and worked with Dorothy Convery on Ireland 1518 (2015). He has contributed many peer-reviewed articles and was co-founder of History Ireland, Ireland's popular history magazine. He has been a principal investigator on several local, national and international projects and is head of CELT, the world's largest website for Irish Studies which is hosted by the School of History at Cork.

The Stanihurst scholarly volume was particularly well received: 'John Barry and Hiram Morgan should be congratulated for this splendid edition, as should their publishers, who have made it so handsome and yet affordable', Times Literary Supplement, June 2013 'Their edition is enriched with incisive but unobtrusive annotations and with a lengthy introduction that offers an appraisal both of Stanihurst¹s career and of how his Latin text has been read and received in succeeding centuries', Irish Times, Dec 2013 'This first full edition of the seminal Latin work by Richard Stanihurst captures the flavour of the author¹s unique style of writing', Recusant History, Sept 2013.

Hiram Morgan is working on a full biography of Hugh O'Neill for publication by the RIA and is currently readying a new edition of the 1598 propaganda text 'The Supplication of the Blood of the English crying out of the Earth for Revenge' for Manchester University Press's Spenser Series.

Early Modern Ireland in context; Renaissance Texts of Ireland; Renaissance Images of Ireland 1521-1690; Hugh O'Neill, earl of Tyrone; Early Modern Irish Political Thought; Irish Battlefields Project; Spanish Armada and Ireland; Battle of Kinsale; William Penn; Andreas Vesalius; Albrecht Dürer; Laurent Vital; Information systems through the ages; CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts of Ireland; Irish National Institute for Historical Research;  Philip O'Sullivan Beare; Sir Francis Bacon; Nationalism; Ireland & the British Empire; History of Latin America; John Michael Wright, Patrick Joseph Haverty, George Catlin; Pope Hennessy Family; Roger Palmer, earl of Castlemaine; Giraldus Cambrensis; Laudabiliter; The O'Neill Madonna; Scottish Renaissance Diplomats.

Historiography; Early Modern Ireland; Renaissance and Reformation Europe; Colonialism and Imperialism; Irish History; Information Revolutions