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Dr. Patrick Walsh

Assistant Professor (History)
ARTS BUILDING

 walshp9@tcd.ie

 3531896 3476


Biography

am an economic, social and political historian of eighteenth-century Ireland. My current research investigates the processes of state formation in eighteenth-century Ireland within a comparative imperial perspective. I am especially interested in the ways in which the agents of the emerging Irish state negotiated and collaborated with the different interests and groups within Irish society and have written extensively on the history of Irish taxation and the Irish version of the fiscal military state. To this end I have also collaborated with colleagues in the National University of Ireland, Galway on a database of Ireland's international trade, 1683-1829 while I am also co-investigator on the Irish Residential Army Barracks project at UCD. Most recently I have become increasingly interested in the history of Irish property in the long eighteenth-century and its financial and other connections to empire. Prior to coming to Trinity I taught at University College London (UCL) and previous to that I held an IRC-Marie Curie-Sklodowska postdoctoral mobility fellowship jointly at UCL and UCD. I am currently Co- PI (with Dr Andrew MacKillop, University of Glasgow) on a project funded by the AHRC and the IRC digital humanities networking scheme entitled Comparing and Combining Early Modern Irish and Scottish Land Records: New Transkribus and Natural Language Processing Approaches I am also Co-PI (with Dr Ciaran O'Neill) on the Trinity Colonial Legacies project

Research Tags

  18h century Irish history   Ireland and Empire   Irish economic history   Irish History   Trinity Colonial Legacies

Research Projects

 Comparing and Combining Early Modern Irish and Scottish Land Records: New Transkribus and Natural Language Processing Approaches
 Trinity's Colonial Legacies
 The Royal Dublin Society: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism
 Ireland and the Infrastructure of Empire: Local, National and Global Perspectives
 VRTI Tailte Eireann Reading the Deeds

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Representations

Details Date
Director Castletown Foundation 2012
Member, Tailte Eireann Registry of Deeds Digitisation Advisory Group 2019
General Editor, Eighteenth-Century Ireland 2014
Peer Reviewer for Irish Historical Studies, English Historical Review, Scottish Historical Review, Historical Research, Economic History Review, English Studies, Irish Economic and Social History and Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 2016
Peer Reviewer for monographs submitted to Palgrave MacMillan and Routledge 2016
Member of Judging Panel for Economic History Society New Researchers Prize, Cambridge, April 2016 2016
Commissioned by Office of Public Works to write comprehensive new 64-page guidebook to Castletown House, Co. Kildare (8,000 copies printed). 2007

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
Director, Castletown Foundation 2012 Present
Committee Member Eighteenth Century Ireland society 2020 Present
Member Digitisation Strategy Advisory Group, Tailte Eireann 2020 Present
Member Advisory Board of Beyond 2022: Virtual Treasury of Ireland 2018 2020
Member Economic History Society 2010 Present
Member Irish Economic and Social History Society 2012 Present
Member Money, Power and Print Network 2006 2014
Trinity"s Colonial Legacies. Transparency, Instrumentality, and Agency in an Engaged Research Project in, editor(s)Peter Bille Larsen, Markéta K"ížová, Gertjan Plets, , Dealing with Complex Heritage: Revisiting University Pasts in Contemporary Practice, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2025, [Patrick Walsh, Mobeen Hussain, Ciaran O'Neill], Book Chapter, IN_PRESS
Patrick Walsh Douglas Kanter, Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662-2016, Basingstoke, Palgrave MacMillan, 2019, 1 - 367pp, Book, PUBLISHED
Patterns of Taxation in Eighteenth-Century Ireland in, editor(s)Douglas Kanter Patrick Walsh , Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662-2016, Basingstoke, UK, Palgrave MacMillan, 2019, pp89 - 120, [Patrick Walsh], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
Patrick Walsh, Between the Speaker and the Squire: The Anglo Irish Life of William Conolly II, Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies, 20, 2018, p52 - 70, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
The Eighteenth-Century Fiscal Military State: A Four Nations Perspective' in, editor(s)Naomi Lloyd Jones Margaret Scull , Four Nations Approaches to Modern 'British' History: A Disunited Kingdom? , Basingstoke, Palgrave-MacMillan, 2017, pp85 - 110, [Patrick Walsh], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Patrick Walsh Aaron Graham, The British Fiscal-Military States, 1660-1783 , London, Routledge, 2016, 1 - 318pp, Book, PUBLISHED
Robert Armstrong, Scott Spurlock and Patrick Walsh, Presbyterian History in Ireland: The Seventeenth-Century Narratives of Patrick Adair and Andrew Stewart, Belfast, Ulster Historical Foundation, 2016, Book, PUBLISHED
Enforcing the Fiscal State: The Army, the Revenue and the Irish Experience of the Fiscal-Military State, 1690-1769 in, editor(s)Patrick Walsh Aaron Graham , The British Fiscal-Military States, 1660-1783, London, Routledge, 2016, pp131 - 158, [Patrick Walsh], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Ireland and the Royal Navy in the Eighteenth Century in, editor(s)John McAleer Christer Petley , The Royal Navy and the Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century , Basingstoke, Palgrave-MacMillan, 2016, pp51 - 76, [Patrick Walsh], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Patrick Walsh, Review of Periodical Literature on British and Irish Economic History, 1700-1850, Economic History Review, 2016, Review Article, PUBLISHED
  

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Mobeen Hussain, Ciaran O'Neill and Patrick Walsh, , Working Paper on George Berkeley"s Legacies at Trinity, 2023, Working Paper, PUBLISHED
Mobeen Hussain, Ciaran O'Neill and Patrick Walsh,, Draft Trinity Colonial Legacies Working Paper on TCD and Slavery, 2023, Working Paper, PUBLISHED
Patrick Walsh, Introduction to the Memorials and Transcription Books in the Registry of Deeds, Property Registration Authority, October, 2022, p1 - 27, Report, PUBLISHED
Patrick Walsh, Deeds and Sasines Working Paper 1: Registry of Deeds Typologies , 2022, Notes: [. This research/project was funded by UKRI-AHRC and the Irish Research Council under the 'UK-Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities Networking Call' (grant numbers AH/V002376/1 and IRC/V002376/1], Working Paper, PUBLISHED
Aidan Kane, Eoin Magennis and Patrick Walsh, 'Ireland and Ireland's International Trade, 1683-1825', NUI Galway, 2021, Dataset, PUBLISHED
Patrick Walsh, Review of Building the Irish Courthouse and Prison 1750-1850: A Political History, by Richard Butler , Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 36, 2021, p165-68 , Review, PUBLISHED
Patrick Walsh, Edmund Burke's Political Economy, Studies in Burke and His Time, 30, 2021, Review Article, IN_PRESS
Patrick Walsh, Review of Irish Proclamations, 1660-1820, by James Kelly and Mary Ann Lyons , Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 34, 2019, p147-50 , Review, PUBLISHED
Charles Ivar McGrath, Patrick Walsh, Suzanne Forbes , 'Army Barracks of Eighteenth-Cenrtury Ireland', https://barracks18c.ucd.ie/, University College Dublin, 2016, -, Map, GIS map, PUBLISHED
Patrick Walsh, Castletown, Dublin, Office of Public Works, 2007, Book, PUBLISHED

  

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Awards and Honours

Award Date
Fellow of Trinity College Dublin 2023
Certificate of Achievement, Civil Service Excellence and Innovation Awards 2022
Irish Research Council (IRC) and Arts and Humanties Research Council (AHRC)Digital Humanities Networking Grant May 2020
Provosts Project Award 2019
IRC New Foundations Award 2015
IRC CARA Cofund/Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship 2011-2015
IRCHSS Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship 2008-2010
IRCHSS Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship 2004-2007

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

I am an internationally recognised leader in my field of eighteenth-century Irish history as evidenced both by extensive publications and success in gaining competitive funding. In 2023 I was elected a fellow of TCD based on my research. My first monograph, The Making of the Irish Protestant Ascendancy, focused on the politics of the Irish ascendancy elite while my my second monograph The South Sea Bubble in Ireland demonstrates how Irish history can contribute to international historical debates. This book led to ground-breaking research on state formation during a Marie Curie Sklodowska fellowship at University College London. The outputs from this research (2 edited books and 4 articles/book chapters) have made a significant contribution to debates in European, British, and Atlantic history on the phenomenon of the fiscal-military state. My third monograph A Colonial Sinew of Power (currently under review at Oxford University Press) develops this research offering a new interpretation of eighteenth-century Ireland. As Co-PI on the Trinity Colonial Legacies project, I am writing a joint authored monograph (for the OUP History of Universities Series). This project brings together my expertise in Ireland"s relationship with empire and the history of colonialism in Ireland, while the broad scope of our book will make an innovative contribution to global debates about the legacies of colonialism. My research career has been defined by interconnections between land and money. Using innovative digital humanities methodologies developed through an IRC/AHRC grant (2020-22) and a successor project funded by the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (2024) I am submitting (Autumn 2024), with collaborators in Glasgow and Sheffield, a large scale UKRI grant application on the historical intersections of property and credit. It will rethink the history of property ownership, and our understanding of the impact of proto-globalisation on the provincial societies of Scotland, Ireland and Yorkshire.