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Professor Robert Armstrong

Professor In (History)
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Professor Robert Armstrong

Professor In (History)
ARTS BUILDING

 Robert.Armstrong@tcd.ie

 3531896 1577


  Anglo-Irish relations   British History   Early modern ireland, colonial communities   Intellectual History   Irish political, intellectual and social history, 1660-1800   Religious History   The first British Empire
Project Title
 Insular Christianity 1530-1750
From
2008
To
2010
Summary
This innovative three-year project will support the editing of important texts in Irish religious history; I will be one of the editors of a new edition of the foundation text of Irish Presbyterian historiography, Patrick Adair's True narrative. A more distinctive aspect involves bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, and with expertise in the history one or more of the insular nations, to collaborate through mutual criticism of pre-circulated papers, and meetings in a series of symposia. A volume of studies will be produced on each of our three themes: Catholicism and Presbyterianism compared; Celtic Christianity; the impact of the English Bible.
Funding Agency
IRCHSS
Project Title
 The emergence of Irish Presbyterianism
From
2007
To
Summary
I intend to work towards a full-length study of the emergence of Presbyterianism in Ireland, embracing its subject in cultural, social and political as well as ecclesiastical or theological terms.
Funding Agency
TCD Arts and Humanities Benefactions Fund
Project Type
Monograph

Details Date
Irish Manuscripts Commission July 2021 to present
Joint editor (articles), Irish Historical Studies 2011-16
Editorial and Publications Committee, Irish Manuscripts Commission January 2022 to present
Royal Irish Academy Charlemont Grants Scheme: external assessors for applications in the Humanities and Social Sciences category. 2022-
Editorial Board, Irish Historical Studies 2011-16
Board of Directors, Irish Historical Studies Publications Ltd 2011-16
Peer reviewer for journal articles for: English Historical Review; Huguenot Society Journal; Irish Historical Studies; Journal of British Studies; Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy; Scottish Historical Review
Peer reviewer for books proposals for: Ashgate; Liverpool University Press; Manchester University Press; Palgrave Macmillan.
Committee member, Irish Association of Professional Historians 2013-16
Advisory Board, Irish Association of Professional Historians 2016-
Details Date From Date To
Irish Historical Society 2005 Present
Ecclesiastical History Society 2007
Irish Association of Professional Historians 2013 Present
Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland 1990 Present
Sir John Davies (1569-1626): law, church, "commonwealth" and "empire" in, editor(s)David H. McIlroy , Christianity and the making of Irish law, London, Routledge, 2026, pp41-61 , [Robert Armstrong], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Robert Armstrong, Review of Civil Religion in the early modern Anglophone world, 1500-1700, by Adam Morton & Rachel Hammersley eds , Church History, 94, (1), 2025, p171-173 , Review, PUBLISHED
Robert Armstrong, Review of The operations of the Irish House of Commons, 1613"48, by Bríd McGrath , Irish Historical Studies, 48, (174), 2024, p392-394 , Review, PUBLISHED
Robert Armstrong, "Beasts with claws": the English Republic, the Presbyterian Peril and the Ulster Question, Journal of British Studies, 61, 2022, p396-421 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Robert Armstrong, Review of Law and Revolution in Seventeenth-Century Ireland, by Coleman A. Dennehy , Parliaments, Estates and Representation, 41, (1), 2021, p110-1 , Review, PUBLISHED
Planting Protestantism in urban Ulster in, editor(s)Brendan Scott , Society and administration in Ulster's plantation towns, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2019, pp167-88 , [Robert Armstrong], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Robert Armstrong & Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin , The English Bible in the early modern world, Leiden, Brill, 2018, Book, PUBLISHED
Establishing a confessional Ireland, 1641-91 in, editor(s)Jane Ohlmeyer , Cambridge History of Ireland, volume 2, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp220-45 , [Robert Armstrong], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Protestant England and the English Bible in, editor(s)Robert Armstrong & Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin , The English Bible in the early modern world, Leiden, Brill, 2018, pp1-28 , [Robert Armstrong], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Telling the Presbyterian story in eighteenth-century Ireland: John McBride and James Kirkpatrick in, editor(s)Jacqueline Hill & Mary Ann Lyons , Representing Irish Religious Histories, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp37-51 , [Robert Armstrong], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
  

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Preaching Presbyterian style: James Alexander of Convoy in, editor(s)Salvador Ryan & Brendan Leahy , Treasures of Irish Christianity II: a people of the Word, Dublin, Veritas, 2013, pp153-5 , [Robert Armstrong], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED

  


Award Date
Provost's Teaching Award 2013
Fellow of Trinity College Dublin 2007