Following undergraduate, postgraduate and postdoctoralstudy at UCC, I was appointed Lecturer in medieval history in 2003. My doctoral thesis on Bede's Ecclesiastical History was supervised by Dr Jennifer O'Reilly; it explored Bede's response to theclassical and early medievalimage of Britain and Ireland. My subsequent research and teaching has continued to explore medieval ideas about these islands and the peripheries of the known world and Ocean, expressed in texts and images.
Scully, Diarmuid (2011) '‘Proud Ocean has become a servant: a classical topos in the literature on Britain’s conquest and conversion’' In: Listen, O Isles, unto me: Studies in Medieval Word and Image in honour of Jennifer O’Reilly. Cork: Cork University Press. [Details]
Scully D.; (1997) ''Bede's commentaries on Tobit and the Canticle of Habakkuk in the context of his historiographical and exegetical thought'' In: Bede: On Tobit and On the Canticle of Habakkuk. Dublin: [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2007) '‘The Third Voyage of Cormac in Adomnán’s Vita Columbae: Analogues and Context’' In: J. Roberts and A. Minnis (eds.), Text, Image, Interpretation: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature and its Insular Context in Honour of Eamonn Ó Carragáin. Turnhout: Brepols. [Details]
Mullins, Elizabeth; Scully, Diarmuid (Ed.). (2011) Listen, O Isles, unto me: Studies in Medieval Word and Image in honour of Jennifer O’Reilly Listen, O Isles, unto me: Studies in Medieval Word and Image in honour of Jennifer O’Reilly. Cork: Cork University Press. [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2013) '‘Augustus, Rome, Britain and Ireland on the Hereford Mappa Mundi: Imperium and Salvation’'. Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture, 4 (1):107-133 [Details]
Scully, Diarmuid (2013) 'The Remonstrance of the Irish Princes 1317' History Ireland, . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2011) ‘Location and Occupation: Bede, Gildas and the Roman vision of Britain’ . In: J. Roberts and L. Webster eds. Anglo-Saxon Traces, 13th Intertnational Society of Anglo-Saxonists Conference London, [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2009) Bede's Chronica Maiora: Early Insular History in a Universal Context . In: M. Ryan and J. Graham-Campbell eds. Anglo-Saxon/Irish relations before the Vikings; British Academy and Royal Irish Academy joint symposium, 10-12 October, 2005 London, [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2008) ‘Pagans, Christians and Barbarians: the Irish in Giraldus Cambrensis and the Graeco-Roman sources’ . In: F. Bourgne, L. Carruthers and A Sancery eds. Un espace colonial et ses avatars. Naissance d’identités nationales : Angleterre, France, Irlande Paris, , pp.45-59 [Details]
Scully D.; (2006) Ireland and the Irish in Bernard of Clairvaux's Vita Malachiae; Representation and Context . In: D. Bracken and D. Ó Riaín-Raedel eds. Reform and Renewal: Ireland and Europe in the Twelfth Century Dublin, Ireland, , pp.239-256 [Details]
Scully D.; (2005) Bede, Orosius and Gildas on the Early History of Britain . In: O. Szerwiniack, S. Lebecq and M. Perrin eds. Bède le Vénérable: Entre Tradition et Posterité Lille, , pp.30-42 [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2003) ‘At World’s End: Scotland and Ireland in the Graeco-Roman Imagination’ Ireland (Ulster), Scotland: Concepts, Contexts, Comparisons; the Irish-Scottish Academic Initiative Conference, Queen’s University Belfast, 20th-22nd September, 2002 (Belfast, 2002) [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2013) ‘Bernard of Clairvaux: Life of St Malachy’ in Treasures of Irish Christianity II: A People of the Word. Dublin: Articles [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2012) 'Skellig Michael' in Treasures of Irish Christianity I: People and Places, Images and Texts. Dublin: Articles [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2014) Reflections on Significance of the Fr Matthew Statue, in Antoin O'Callagan, 'The Statue: Cork’s Monument to Fr Matthew, the Apostle of Temperance'. Cork: Articles [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2014) Review of P. Gaffney and J. Picard (eds.), The Medieval Imagination Mirabile Dictu: Essays in Honour of Yolande de Pontfarcy Sexton (Dublin, 2012) in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 141 (2014) 235-37. Book Reviews [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2008) Review of G. Lindsay Campbell, Strange Creatures: Anthropology in Antiquity (London, 2006) in Classics Ireland 15 (2008). Book Reviews [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2002) Review of C. Hourihane (ed.), From Ireland Coming: Irish Art from the Early Christian to the Gothic Period and its European Context (Princeton, 2001), in Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 107 (2002) 235-36. Book Reviews [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2004) Review of James Muldoon, Identity on the Medieval Irish Frontier: Degenerate Englishmen, Wild Irishmen, Middle Nations (Gainesville, FL, 2003) in The Irish Review, no. 32 (Autumn/Winter 2004) 123-26. Book Reviews [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2009) 'How the Celts saved Britain', Evening Echo, 25th May, 2009. Cork: Newspaper Articles [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2006) ‘Ireland, A.D. 400-1066’; ‘The Early Irish Church’; ‘Writing in Early Ireland’; ‘The Golden Age of Irish Art’; ‘The Vikings’; ‘The Twelfth Century Reform Movement in Ireland’: Medieval Ireland entries in Matthew Cock (ed.), World Time-Lines Project, British Museum online project (2006). Online Multimedia [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2010) ‘Rome and Ireland’; ‘The Irish Church’ in D. Dyas (ed.), The Story of the Church in England, Christianity and Culture Project, University of York, interactive DVD (York, 2010). CD-ROM Multimedia Art Work [Details]
Scully D.; (2009) Ireland, Rome and England: images of imperium in the Hereford Mappa Mundi. [Oral Presentation], Institute for Irish Studies, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast , 25-MAR-09 - 25-MAR-09. [Details]
Scully D.; (2009) Ocean as topos in the Early Insular sources. [Oral Presentation], International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA , 06-MAY-09 - 09-MAY-09. [Details]
Scully D.; (2008) Bede's Chronica Maiora. [Oral Presentation], Celtic Conference in Classics, University College Cork , 09-JUL-08 - 12-JUL-08. [Details]
Scully D., Mullins E.; (2008) Co-organiser. [Conference Organising Committee Member], History, Exegesis, and Iconography in the Early Insular world: a Conference in honour of Dr Jennifer O'Reilly, University College Cork and Glenstal Abbey, Co. Limerick , 14-AUG-08 - 15-AUG-08. [Details]
Scully D.; (2008) Visualising World's End: Ireland in Medieval Cartography. [Oral Presentation], Annual Conference, Irish Association of Art Historians, University College Dublin , 29-MAR-08 - 29-MAR-08. [Details]
Scully D.; (2008) Where are the monsters? Ireland as civilised space on the Hereford Map. [Oral Presentation], The Unnatural World I: Visualising Wonders, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds , 04-JUL-08 - 08-JUL-08. [Details]
Scully D.; (2008) Ireland and Britain in Medieval Mappae Mundi: the Classical and Early Insular Inheritance. [Oral Presentation], History, Exegesis, and Iconography in the Early Insular world: a Conference in honour of Dr Jennifer O'Reilly, University College Cork and Glenstal Abbey , 14-AUG-08 - 14-AUG-08. [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2008) Ireland, Rome and the First Christmas. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Pontifical Irish College, Rome, Lecture, Rome , 15-DEC-08 - 15-DEC-08. [Details]
Scully D.; (2008) Mapping Ireland in the Middle Ages: the legacy of Rome. [Oral Presentation], Reading Rome: A Symposium in honour of Prof. Eamonn Ó Carragáin, University College Cork , 08-MAR-08 - 08-MAR-08. [Details]
Scully D., Walshe É., Bracken D.; (2008) Co-organiser. [Oral Presentation], Reading Rome: A Symposium in honour of Prof. Eamonn Ó Carragáin, University College Cork , 08-MAR-08 - 08-MAR-08. [Details]
Scully D.; (2007) From Ocean to Rome: the worlds of Columbanus and Gildas in their Classical geographical context. [Oral Presentation], Columbanus and the Roots of Christian Europe, Pontifical Irish College, Rome , 06-DEC-07 - 07-DEC-07. [Details]
Scully D.; (2007) Conquering New Worlds: the Roman Empire as a model for English and Spanish Imperium in Ireland and Latin America. [Oral Presentation], Jornadas Argentino-Irlandesas: Encuentro de dos Culturas, Facultad de Filosofía, Historia y Letras, Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina , 07-AUG-07 - 07-AUG-07. [Details]
Scully D.; (2007) Among the Ruins: Bede and his sources on the geography and built environment of Roman Britain, Anglo-Saxon Traces,. [Oral Presentation], Conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, London , 30-JUL-07 - 05-AUG-07. [Details]
Scully D.; (2007) From very great and ancient nations: Russia, the Scythians, and the origins of the Irish people in the Classical and Early Insular sources. [Oral Presentation], Russia-Ireland: Past and Present, State University of St Petersburg and V. V. Nabokov Museum, St Petersburg, Russia , 21-JUN-07 - 22-JUN-07. [Details]
Scully D.; (2007) History and Exegesis in Bede's Greater Chronicle. [Oral Presentation], Bede and Exegesis II session, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA , 10-MAY-07 - 14-MAY-07. [Details]
Scully D.; (2007) Cannibals and Kings: Froissart and Classical stereotypes of Irish Barbarism. [Oral Presentation], MA in Comparative Literature seminar, French Department, UCC, University College Cork , 22-NOV-07 - 22-NOV-07. [Details]
Scully D.; (2007) The Wild Irish in Munster: Edmund Spenser and his Graeco-Roman and Medieval Sources on the Irish as Barbarians. [Oral Presentation], Charleville Historical Society, Cork , 16-NOV-07 - 16-NOV-07. [Details]
Scully D.; (2007) Gerald of Wales and the Wonders of Ireland at the Ends of the Earth. [Oral Presentation], Bandon Historical Society, Cork, Ireland , 19-OCT-07 - 19-OCT-07. [Details]
Scully D.; (2007) The Atlantic archipelago on the Hereford World-Map. [Oral Presentation], Insular Studies Seminar, University College Cork, Cork , 03-MAR-07 - 03-MAR-07. [Details]
Scully D.; (2006) Ocean and pilgrimage in Early Medieval Ireland. [Oral Presentation], Meitheal Mara, Cork, Cork , 16-JUL-06 - 16-JUL-06. [Details]
Scully D.; (2006) Organiser. [Conference Organising Committee Member], Ireland, Rome and the Holy See: History, Culture, Contact,, Pontifical Irish College, , 31-MAR-06 - 01-APR-06. [Details]
Scully D.; (2006) Stuffed with Irish porridge: Classical Roman stereotypes of the Irish and their legacy. [Oral Presentation], Ireland, Rome and the Holy See: History, Culture, Contact, Pontifical Irish College, Rome , 31-MAR-06 - 01-APR-06. [Details]
Scully D.; (2006) Scotia and Scythia: Ireland and Russia in the Graeco-Roman and Medieval Western Imagination. [Oral Presentation], The Age of Exile: Joyce, Nabokov, Beckett and Others, State University of St Petersburg and V. V. Nabokov Museum, St Petersburg, Russia , 17-JUN-06 - 17-JUN-06. [Details]
Scully D. Bracken D, O'Reilly J; (2005) Co-organiser. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], UCC/Glenstal Abbey Insular Studies Seminar, Glenstal Abbey, Co. Limerick , 06-AUG-05 - 07-AUG-05. [Details]
Scully D.; (2005) Classical and Patristic images of the North in Bede's account of Insular conversion. [Oral Presentation], Bede and Exegesis I session, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA , 05-MAY-05 - 08-MAY-05. [Details]
Scully D.; (2005) Worlds beyond Ocean: an Insular topos and its history. [Oral Presentation], UCC/Glenstal Insular Studies Seminar, Glenstal Abbey , 06-AUG-05 - 07-AUG-05. [Details]
Scully D.; (2005) Bede's Greater Chronicle: Early Insular history in a Universal Context. [Oral Presentation], Anglo-Saxon/Irish Relations before the Vikings, a Royal Irish Academy/British Academy symposium, London , 12-OCT-05 - 14-OCT-05. [Details]
Scully D, Bracken D.; (2005) Pontifical Irish College, Rome. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], The Papacy and Ireland, Rome , 13-APR-05 - 13-APR-05. [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2014) ‘Envisioning the First English Empire: Map, Text and Image in MS 700, National Library of Ireland, Dublin’. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Department of History of Art and Architecture Research Seminar series, TCD, Trinity College Dublin . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2013) ‘The Representation of Ireland on the Hereford Mappa Mundi: Contexts and Implications’. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Maps and Diagrams in Medieval Art, The Index of Christian Art, Princeton University, Princeton University . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2014) ‘Visions of Ireland as a holy or savage island on medieval maps’. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], ‘A safe place for ships’: Cork, Ireland, Europe and the Sea, University College Cork . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2013) ‘Islands and Ocean: Contexts for the Brendan Voyage and the Hereford World-Map’. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], St Brendan International Conference, 'The Gathering', Tralee, Co. Kerry . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2013) ‘Subverting Bede: Gerald of Wales’s Topographia Hibernica and its response to the Historia Ecclesiastica on Ireland and the Irish’. [Oral Presentation], International Medieval Congress, Leeds . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2014) 'The South-West of Ireland on Medieval World-Maps: the Meaning and Implications of its Location. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Ireland and Germany: Past, Present and Future Connections, Rosscarbery, West Cork . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2012) ‘Ends of Empire and the Earth: Mapping the Orkney Islands in the Western Imagination from Antiquity to Gerald of Wales’. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Transition in the Medieval World, University of York . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2012) ‘Gerald of Wales and the English Conquest of Ireland: Map, text and marginal illustration in MS 700, National Library of Ireland’. [Oral Presentation], International Medieval Congress, Leeds . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2014) ‘Mapping an English Empire in a manuscript of Gerald of Wales’s Topographia Hibernica and Expugnatio Hibernica (MS 700, National Library of Ireland, Dublin)’. [Oral Presentation], International Medieval Congress, Leeds . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2012) 'The Remonstrance of the Irish Princes: an answer to Gerald of Wales?'. [Oral Presentation], Irish Conference of Medievalists, University College Dublin . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2014) ‘Reading Gerald of Wales’s Topographia Hibernica: problems and opportunities’. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Twelfth-century Historiography at the Fringes of Europe: A Workshop, Trinity College Dublin . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2013) ‘At the Edges of the Earth: Ireland and Scythia in the Classical and Medieval Imagination’. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Classical Association of Ireland Summer School, Cork . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2012) ‘Augustus, Rome, and the Atlantic archipelago on the Hereford mappa mundi’. [Oral Presentation], International Medieval Congress, Leeds . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2012) ‘Location, National Origins, and Political Authority: Gerald of Wales’s Topography of Ireland and the Map of Europe in MS 700, NLI, Dublin’. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Borderlines XV, Living on the Edge: Inspiration, Imagination, Vision, University College Cork . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2012) ‘Mapping the Farthest Western Lands: Gerald of Wales, Ireland and English Imperium in the Twelfth Century’. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Maps and Society Lecture Series, Warburg Institute, London . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2012) ‘Constructing Identities in Late Medieval Ireland’. [Oral Presentation], 3rd Symposium on Late Medieval Studies in Ireland ‘From Ireland outwards: interactions between Ireland & western Christendom in the late medieval period', UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute, UCC School of History and Dublin Medieval Society; University College Cork . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2012) ‘Inventing the Irish Barbarian: Giraldus Cambrensis and the creation of a Myth in Text and Image’. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Dublin Medieval Society Lecture Series, Trinity College Dublin . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2012) ‘Merlin, Stonehenge and the Giants in Ireland: Gerald of Wales and the Political Uses of History’. [Oral Presentation], School of History Research Seminar, University College Cork . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2002) ‘Giraldus Cambrensis and the Irish: the Creation of a Popular Ethnic Stereotype’. [Oral Presentation], Economic and Social History Society of Ireland Annual Conference, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2009) ‘Caledonia and Rome: the forging of Scotland’s identity in the Ancient World’. [Oral Presentation], The Roots of Nationhood: archaeology and history in Scotland, Scottish Archaeological Forum conference, University of Glasgow . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2009) ‘At the limit beyond which no-one dwells: Mapping Ireland in the Middle Ages’. [Oral Presentation], School of History Research Seminar, University College Cork . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2011) ‘Gerald of Wales and the Irish Origin Legend’. [Oral Presentation], XIV International Celtic Congress, Maynooth . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2002) ‘The Saints in Ocean: some Hiberno-Latin Sea-Voyages and their Classical Analogues’. [Oral Presentation], Seminar on Early Insular Culture, Glenstal Abbey . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2001) ‘Forbidden Voyage: Exploration of the North Atlantic Ocean as a Transgressive Act in Classical and Early Insular Literature’. [Oral Presentation], Crime and Punishment, 10th Annual School of Languages and Literature Conference on Cross-Currents in Literature, Language, Film and Visual Arts, University College Cork . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (1993) ‘The Rivalry of Saints’ Cults in Early Medieval Northumbria’. [Oral Presentation], Relics, Reliquaries and Associated Places, Roscrea Spring Conference, Mount St Joseph Abbey, Roscrea . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2001) ‘Visions of Archipelago and Ocean: Classical and Late Antique accounts of Britain, Ireland, and their surrounding seas’. [Invited Lectures (Workshops)], Institute of Historical Research, Seminar, London . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2000) ‘Melting the Frozen North: Bede and his Sources on the Conversion of Britain and the Gentile World’. [Oral Presentation], The Age of Conversion in Northern Europe, Centre for Medieval Studies Conference, University of York . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (1999) ‘Evil from the North: the Irish in Gildas’ De Excidio Britanniae’. [Oral Presentation], International Congress of Celtic Studies XI, University College Cork . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (1999) ‘The Conversion of Roman Britain: Bede’s Narrative’. [Oral Presentation], Narrative and History in the Early Medieval West, University of York . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (1996) ‘Gens Innoxia: the Irish in Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum’. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], ‘Gens Innoxia: the Irish in Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum’, Claremorris . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2001) ‘Ireland and the Irish in Bernard of Clairvaux’s Life of Malachy’. [Oral Presentation], Reform and Renewal: Ireland and Europe in the Twelfth Century,, Univeristy College Cork and Cashel . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2000) ‘Where once dragons lay: Bede’s Description of Britain and Ireland and Interpretation of their Conversion’. [Oral Presentation], Insular Studies/Latin Bible Research Seminar, University College Cork . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2003) Ireland and the Irish in Edmund Campion’s Two Bokes of the Histories of Ireland’. [Oral Presentation], Culture, Place and Identity, XXVI Irish Conference of Historians, University of Ulster, Magee Campus, Derry . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2002) ‘The First Guide to Irish Heritage: Giraldus Cambrensis’s Topographia Hiberniae’. [Oral Presentation], Ireland’s Heritages: Critical Perspectives on Consumption, Method and Memory, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Castlebar . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2004) ‘Medieval and Early Modern Representations of Scotland, Ireland and their Inhabitants: the Classical Inheritance’. [Oral Presentation], National Identity and Cultural Exchange, Irish-Scottish Academic Initiative Conference, University of Edinburgh . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2002) ‘Early Insular Models for Twelfth Century Representations of Ireland and the Irish’,. [Oral Presentation], International Medieval Congress, Leeds . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2003) The Uses of the Past in Edmund Campion’s Two Bokes of the Histories of Ireland’. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Ulster Historical Society Lecture Series, Queen's University Belfast . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2004) ‘Visions of Empire in Adomnán and the Early Insular Sources: the Classical and Patristic inheritance’. [Oral Presentation], International Medieval Congress, Leeds . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2004) ‘Living on Beasts and Living like Beasts: Representations of the Irish and their Diet in Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages’. [Oral Presentation], 'Food and History' Conference, University College Cork . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2002) ‘Bede, Orosius and Gildas on the Early History of Britain’. [Oral Presentation], Bède le Vénérable: bilan et perspectives, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens/Université de Lille 3 Charles-de-Gaulle . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2012) ‘Identities in Gerald of Wales’s Topographia Hibernica and Expugnatio Hibernica’. [Oral Presentation], Researching Identities Roundtable, Identities Research Cluster, CACSSS, University College Cork . [Details]
Diarmuid Scully (2009) ‘Mapping Ireland and Rome in the Middle Ages’. [Oral Presentation], Ireland and Rome: History, Representation, Art, Pontifical Irish College, Rome . [Details]
External Examiner, School of Humanities
External Examiner, School of Humanities
Programmatic Review Panel Member, BA in Heritage Studies and BA (Hons) in Heritage Studies
External Examiner, Taught Masters, History of Christianity
External Examiner in Ecclesiastical History
Public event: Classical Association of Ireland (Cork branch), talks
‘Creating Barbarian Ireland: the legacy of Classical cartography and ethnography’, Classical Association of Ireland, Cork branch, 22 Sept 2009
‘Medieval Maps: their Classical Inheritance’, The Classical Association of Ireland, Cork branch, 5 Dec, 2011
‘The Roman Empire: a model for Gerald of Wales on the medieval English conquest of Ireland’, Classical Association of Ireland, Cork branch, 6 Oct, 2014
Delegation to China
Member of UCC Delegation visit to Shanghai, 6-10 Sept, 2010. Presentations on medieval Irish cultural history and round-table discussion on mutual research and teaching interests, Shanghai University (9 Sept) and Fudan University (10 Sept).Public event: Culture Night
‘Medieval influences on the design of St Vincent’s Church: art and architecture’, St Vincent’s Church, Sundays Well, Cork, Culture Night, 21 Sept., 2012
‘The stained glass windows of St Vincent’s Church: symbolism and meaning’, St Vincent’s Church, Sundays Well, Cork, Culture Night, 20 Sept., 2013Public event: Inter-Universities Debate
‘The arrival of the Normans was no bad thing’, Annual Inter-University Debate, Kilkenny Archaeological Society, Kilkenny Castle, 23 April, 2014 (UCC team, with Dr Paul MacCotter)Liaison and co-ordination: St Petersburg delegation visit to UCC
Days of St Petersburg in Cork (15th-16th May 2008), sponsored by the City Government of St Petersburg in co-operation with Cork City Council and School of History, UCC. Liaison with St Petersburg City Govt officials, UCC, and Cork City Council re. delegation’s visit to UCC (public lectures, concert, art exhibition).Schools Visit, talk
‘Introducing medieval maps’, History Week at Regina Mundi school, Douglas, Cork, 28 April, 2013
Research Roundtable
Co-organiser with Dr Mairin MacCarron, Garret Fitzgerald Postdoctoral Fellow, NUIG, of Bede Studies Day research roundtable at UCC, 30th November, 2012
My undergraduate and MA teaching is research-driven, emphasises the importance of visual as well as textual primary sources, and actively promotescritical discussion with students. My approach to teaching is deeply indebted to Dr Jennifer O'Reilly, who taught me as an undergraduate, and who supervised my postgraduate research. I value collaborative teaching, and am currently co-teaching the Third Year seminar HI 3200 Place, People and History with Dr Clare O'Halloran, as will as the First Year modules HI1003 East and West and HI 1008Pilgrims and Crusaders with Dr Malgorzata D'Aughton. Apart from my contribution to East and West, which introduces First Year students to medieval history, my teaching focusses on issues of identity and concepts of space, the barbarous and exotic, chiefly in relation to Ireland, viewed in the context of the wider British-Irish archipelago. I emphasise the classical inheritance, and the long term impact of medieval ideas, beliefs and stereotypes.
