Hiram Morgan

Hiram Morgan (born 1960) is an Irish historian. He is an expert on the Nine Years War (1594–1603), the career of Hugh O'Neill (1550–1616) and Ireland's connections with Europe and beyond.^[1] He was chairman of the Royal Irish Academy Committee for Historical Sciences from 2003 to 2007.

Early life

Morgan was born in Belfast in 1960. He was educated at Our Lady and St. Patrick's College, Knock^[1] and at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He teaches at University College Cork.

Publications

His main works are:

• Monograph:
  • Tyrone's rebellion: the outbreak of the Nine Years War in Tudor Ireland' (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, April 1993), no. 67 in The Royal Historical Society Studies in History series.^[2][3][4]
• Edited Books:
  • Political Ideology in Ireland, 1541–1641' (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1999).^[5][6]
  • Information, Media and Power through the Ages (Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2001).^[7]
  • The Battle of Kinsale (Bray: Wordwell Books, March 2004).^[8][9]
• Translation/Scholarly Edition
  • With John Barry, Great Deeds in Ireland, Richard Stanihurst's De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis (Leiden, 1584), (Cork University Press, 2013).^[10][11]
• Journal
  • A founder and co-editor (1992-2002) of History Ireland, the illustrated magazine dealing with all aspects of Irish history.
• Websites
  • Morgan is director of the world's largest online site for Irish Studies: CELT (Corpus of Electronic Text of Ireland)

References

1. "Hiram Morgan". University College Cork. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
2. Morgan, Hiram (1993). Tyrone's rebellion: the outbreak of the Nine Years War in Ireland. Boydell & Brewer. ISBN 0851156835.
3. "Tyrone's Rebellion". boydellandbrewer.com. Boydell & Brewer. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
4. McGurk, John. "Representing Ireland; & Tyrone's Rebellion". historytoday.com. History Today.
5. Morgan, Hiram (1999). Political Ideology in Ireland, 1541-1641. Four Courts Press. ISBN 1851824405.
6. McGurk, John. "Political Ideology in Ireland 1541-1641". history.ac.uk/. The Institute of Historical Research (IHR). Retrieved 24 April 2015.
7. Morgan, Hiram (2001). Information, Media and Power Through the Ages. University College Dublin Press. ISBN 1900621614.
8. Morgan, Hiram (2004). The Battle of Kinsale. Wordwell, Limited. ISBN 1869857704.
9. Smith, Murray (22 February 2013). "The Battle of Kinsale". historyireland.com. History Ireland.
10. Barry, John; Morgan, Hiram (2014). Great Deeds in Ireland, Richard Stanihurst De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis. Cork University Press. ISBN 978-1782050872.
11. Serjeantson, Dierdre. "John Barry and Hiram Morgan, eds. Great Deeds in Ireland: Richard Stanihurst's De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis". www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenseronline. Spenser Online. Retrieved 3 April 2015.

External links

• "Hiram Morgan | University College Cork - Academia.edu". ucc-ie.academia.edu. Retrieved 5 September 2019.