Launch of Bríd McGrath’s The Operations of the Irish House of Commons, 1613–48 (Four Courts Press, 2023)

Launch of Bríd McGrath’s The Operations of the Irish House of Commons, 1613–48 (Four Courts Press, 2023)

By Professor Nicholas Canny, MRIA, FBA

Wednesday 21 February at 5.15pm

Hardiman Research Building seminar room G010

This is the first account of the workings Irish House of Commons in the early Stuart period, a time of immense change in early modern Ireland, when the parliament’s structures and operations were established in a manner that would endure until the Act of Union. The book explores the parliament, its personnel and work during the government of lord deputies Arthur Chichester and Thomas Wentworth, and during the period of the Confederation of Kilkenny.

Dr Bríd McGrath, visiting research fellow in the Department of History, Trinity College Dublin, where she formerly taught, is a former visiting fellow in the Moore Institute, University of Galway. She is editor of The Minute Book of the Corporation of Clonmel, 1608–1649 (2006), Acts of the Corporation of Coleraine, 1623–1669 (2017) and, with Aidan Clarke, the Letterbook of George, 16th earl of Kildare (2013) and with Aidan Clarke and David Edwards, A Lord justice’s letter book: The Earl of Cork’s letterbook, 1629-1633 Hardwick Ms 78. (forthcoming). She is the author of many articles and book chapters and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.