DkITlecturerjoins ‘HistoryofIreland’
DKIT lecturer Annaleigh Margey celebrated the launch of ‘ The Cambridge History of Ireland’ on which she was a leading contributor.
The landmark survey of Irish history from c.600 to the present day was written by a team of more than 100 leading historians from around the world including DkIT History Lecturer, Dr. Margey.
A lecturer on the BA (Hons) in Digital Humanities course at DkIT, Dr. Margey wrote the chapter ‘Plantations, 1550-1641’, which focuses on the development of English, and later British settlement, in
Ireland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This is a specialist research area for Dr. Margey, originally from Letterkenny, Co. Donegal and formed part of her PhD, which she completed at NUI, Galway.
Each volume examines Ireland’s development within a distinct period, and offers a complete and rounded picture of Irish life, while remaining sensitive to the unique Irish experience.
The work benefits from a strong political narrative framework, and is distinctive in including essays that address the full range of social, economic, religious, linguistic, military, cultural, artistic and gender history, and in challenging traditional chronological boundaries in a manner that offers new perspectives and insights.
Speaking at the launch, Dr. Margey said: ‘I am honoured to have contributed a chapter to this book, which should become a key resource for studies in Irish history. The book brings together research experts in Irish History from all corners of the globe and I was delighted to present my own work which centres on an important period in early modern Irish history, the development of plantation schemes in lreland between 1550 and 1641.’
With a huge volume of experience in the field, Annaleigh has also worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen on ‘ The 1641 Depositions Project’ and at the Institute of Historical Research, London where she conducted research on the property and charity of the Clothworkers’ Company in early modern London.
She further worked as a researcher on a project at NUI, Maynooth and the National Library of Ireland focusing on the rentals and maps in the landed estates of Ireland collections in the library’s holdings.
Most recently, she has edited a book with her colleagues Elaine Murphy and Eamon Darcy on The 1641 Depositions and the Irish Rebellion, and will shortly publish another book Mapping Ireland, c.1550-1636: a catalogue of the early modern maps of Ireland with the Irish Manuscripts Commission.
She is currently working on a cross-border project with Armagh Robinson Library and Marsh’s Library, Dublin to digitise, and exhibit, the map holdings of the two eighteenth-century libraries. She has written several articles on early modern mapping in Ireland, particularly on Ulster, and on the 1641 depositions.