CLARE ROOTS JANUARY MEETING and GUEST SPEAKER, DR. CLODAGH TAIT

CRS Meeting on the 18th of January 

8 PM at the Old Ground Hotel, Ennis

presents

 'Namesakes and Nicknames' 

by Dr Clodagh Tait

                 Naming practices in Early Modern Ireland, 

'1540-1700' in Continuity and Change

"The simple annals of my parish poor": Stories from the parish registers

Clodagh Tait graduated from University College Cork with a degree in History and Folklore followed by a PhD. in History. She currently lectures in History at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, having previously worked in the University of Essex, University College Dublin, and NUI Maynooth.

Her book, Death, Burial and Commemoration in Ireland, 1550-1650, was published in 2002 and she has also co-edited Age of Atrocity: Violent Death in Early Modern Ireland (2007) and Religion and Politics in Urban Ireland, c.1500-1750 (2016). She has published articles on a wide variety of topics including commemoration, violence, martyrdom, childbirth and infant rearing, naming, religious culture, and the folklore of graveyards.

Her forthcoming  publications include an article on the social history of early modern Ireland in the second volume of The Cambridge History of Ireland, and another on emotional responses to the 1641 rebellion in M. Braddick and P. Withington's Popular Culture and Political Agency in Early Modern Ireland. 

Reminder!

The Membership Fee of €20 for 2017/2018 is due and can be paid at the door on the night.  

Larry Parks

Secretary,

Clare Roots Society