THE CHURCH OF IRELAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY The next meeting of the Society will be held in the Chapter Room, Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, on Saturday 20 November 2010 [Parking is available in the high-rise commercial car park – Christ Church public car park – behind Jury’s Hotel, which is opposite the cathedral. It is accessed from St Werburgh’s Street] PROGRAMME 10.30 Coffee and registration 11.00 Dr Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin, ‘The Church of Ireland and the native Irish in plantation Ulster.’ 12.00 Dr Mark Empey, ‘Challenging stereotypes: the Protestant contribution to Gaelic culture in the seventeenth century.’ 12.45 Executive Committee Meeting 1.00 Lunch-break. Tea, coffee and sandwiches will be available in the Chapter Room at a cost of €5. 2.00 Dr Susan Parkes, ‘Sources for the history of Irish education: church and state in the nineteenth century.’ 3.00 Eimhin Walsh, ‘The crown of Red Martyrdom: the Church of Ireland in China.’[Research Paper] Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin is a senior lecturer in the UCD School of History and Archives. His principal research interests concern the history of early modern Ireland and the European Counter-Reformation, with a particular emphasis on comparative history. He has published widely in this field in a variety of books and journals, some of which he has edited. In 2002 he published Catholic Reformation in Ireland: The Mission of Rinuccini, 1645-1649 (Oxford: Oxford University Press). Mark Empey is an IRCHSS postdoctoral fellow at UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland where he is working on the project ‘Protestants, print and Gaelic culture, 1567-1722’. His current interest focuses on the seventeenth-century historian and antiquary, Sir James Ware, in addition to the broader study of the Protestant contribution to Gaelic culture in early modern Ireland. He also specialises in political and religious history in Britain and Ireland, particularly the career of Sir Thomas Wentworth. Susan Parkes is an Emeritus Fellow of TCD and an historian of education. She has published or co-authored a number of books on the history of the Church of Ireland Training College, female education in Ireland, including a history of Alexandra College, and on education and national identity. In 2004 she edited A danger to the men: a history of women in Trinity College Dublin 1904-2004. Her most recent work, Sources of Irish education, 1780-1922, was published earlier this year. Eimhin Walsh is a graduate of TCD, who has recently finished his MA in theology and ecclesiastical history. He has recently returned to Trinity to commence his PhD in medieval history. Eimhin is also involved in the Dublin University Far Eastern Mission. Registration: There will be an opportunity for members to renew their annual subscriptions, if they have not done so already. The annual subscription was fixed last November at £35 or €40. Non- members are most welcome. They are asked to subscribe £7 or €10 to assist with the expenses of the conference. The Church of Ireland Historical Society meets twice a year: in the Public Library, Armagh, in April, and in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, in November. It exists to promote scholarly interest in the history of the Church, and to facilitate publication. Queries may be addressed to Adrian Empey, Hon. Sec. Telephone +353-1-4055056 or e- mail: [email protected] .