Research Staff:
Dr Denis Casey
Teaching Associate and Postdoctoral Fellow of the Society for Renaissance Studies
Contact
Office S-R30
Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic
9 West Road
Cambridge
CB3 9DP
+44 (0)1223 767314 Email: dc399@cam.ac.uk
Research Interests
- Political history of medieval and early modern Ireland
- Exercise of kingship in medieval Ireland
- Medieval Irish annals
- Early modern use of medieval sources
- Medieval Irish economic history
Teaching 2010-11
- Sea Kings and the Celtic Speaking World c. 1014-1164 (Part II, paper 3)
- Law and Lawlessness (Part II, paper 4)
- The Gaelic-speaking peoples from the fourth century to the twelfth (Part I, paper 4)
- Medieval Irish Language and Literature (Part I, paper 8)
- Palaeography and Codicology (Part I, paper 10)
Other Activities
- Postdoctoral Fellow of the Society for Renaissance Studies (http://www.rensoc.org.uk/society/council) (2011-12).
- Visiting Fellow at An Foras Feasa and Faculty of Arts, Celtic Studies and Philosophy, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (2011–12).
- Director of Studies (DoS) for ASNC students in Jesus College, Cambridge (Lent term, 2012).
- Course Director of Ireland: Culture and Society, c.400–c.1200 at the Institute of Continuing Education (January 2012) (http://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/component/courses/?view=course&cid=3866&q=ireland).
- Academic administrator for Cultures in Contact: a Conference for Teachers interested in the Medieval World (http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/news/2011/11/07/780) (January 2012).
- Co-Director of the Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic Freshers' Induction Course (October 2011).
- Joint organiser of Insular Economics (http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/news/2011/07/25/651), an early-career workshop on medieval Irish economic history (September 2011).
- Academic administrator for Pagan and Christian conference on conversion in the middle ages (http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/rf294) (September 2011).
Recent Publications
- ‘Queen Spoke Language of Irish Warlords’, in the Irish Examiner (17th May 2011): http://www.irishexaminer.com/features/queen-spoke-language-of-irish-warlords-154773.html.
- '"A Compulsory and Burdensome Imposition"': Billeting Soldiers in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland', in A. Classen and N. Margolis (eds.), War and Peace: Critical Issues in European Societies and Literature, 800–1800, Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture 8 (Berlin, 2011), 193–216.
- ‘“A Man of Great Power for a long Time”: Tigernán Ua Ruairc and the Book of Kells’, History Ireland 18:4 (2010), 14-17.
- ‘Prolegomena to the Study of Medieval Irish Economic History’, in M. Watson and L. Milligan (eds), From Vestiges to the Very Day: New Voices in Celtic Studies (Aberdeen, 2010), 13–24.
- ‘Historical and Literary Representations of Brian Boru’s Burial in Armagh, 1014AD', North Munster Antiquarian Journal 50 (2010), 29–44.
- 750 word review of D. P. Mc Carthy, The Irish Annals: Their Genesis, Evolution and History (Dublin, 2008), in Early Medieval Europe 18:1 (2010), 94–6.
- 1,200 word review of M. A. Valante, The Vikings in Ireland: Settlement, Trade and Urbanization (Dublin, 2008), in Saga-Book 34 (2010), 109–11.
- 1,300 word review of E. Bhreathnach (ed.), The Kingship and Landscape of Tara (Dublin, 2005), in Early Medieval Europe 17:3 (2009), 344–7.
- with N. J. Morgan, et al., Parker Library on the Web (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2009): http://parkerweb.stanford.edu/.
- Devised educational guidelines for medieval Manuscript Handling (2009).
- Twenty-nine (250-word) entries in J. Morton and B. Jackson (eds), The Defining Moments in History (London, 2008).
- Three (250-word) entries in J. Doubt (ed.), The Little Black Book of Art (London, 2008).
- ‘An Eighth-Century Royal Conversation: Cathal mac Finnguini and Áed Allán at Tír dá Glas, 737 AD’, Quaestio Insularis: Selected Proceedings of the Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic 7 (2006), 57–71.
- ‘The Hagiographer and the Law’, in E. Lyons and C. Meehan (eds), History Matters 2 (2006), 1–9.