Bronagh Ann McShane

@BA_McShane

historian specialising in history of women, religion, confessionalisation | Post-doc | Humanities Fellow (2018-19)

Galway - Dublin, Ireland
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Joined September 2015
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    Apr 3

    My article on Irish women religious has been published in British Catholic Hist

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    our next seminar will take place on 15 Nov when we welcome Prof Patricia Palmer . 5.15pm boardroom. All welcome!

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  3. 16h

    Universities to lose funding if more women not promoted

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    in 1547: Katherine Parr's reformist Lamentation of a Sinner. Day after parliament opens. women and 1/2

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    Nov 2

    2 Nov 1559: John Jewel bp-elect of Salisbury mocks pre-reformation & Marian bps as 'oily, shaven, portly hypocrites' Beards matter!

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    Nov 1

    The Phenomenon of the Married Woman Writer in the Dutch Republic

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    Nov 1

    1 Nov 1660: d. Rosa O'Doherty exile dynast buried . Her signature from rare example of a Gaelic woman's

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  8. Nov 1
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    Brilliant thanks Frances - would love to see this letter!

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    Nov 1

    A nicely engraved 17thC view of the important feast days in (BM)

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    Oct 31

    8 November Caitríona Clear Discusses 's and 20C and

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  11. Oct 31

    'The Four Witches' ('Die Vier Hexen'), 1497 engraving by the German Renaissance artist, Albrecht Dürer (d.1528)

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  12. Oct 31

    On this eve,here's my article on 'How 's reformation led Irish nuns to Lisbon'

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    Oct 31

    A pleasing miniature portrait of St. Teresa of Avila for the eve of All Saints (BM)

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  14. Oct 31

    31 Oct. 1688: Mary Butler, abbess at Ypres in Flanders arrives in to establish a convent of Irish Benedictine nuns

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    Oct 31

    The ‘h’ in ‘ghost‘ is a historical hiccup. William Caxton, having first practised his trade in Flanders, brought Flemish typesetters back to England to help set up his printing press - they lobbed an ‘h’ into English ‘gost’ because their own native word was ‘gheest’.

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    Oct 30

    Announcing our Series. First up Courtship, Sex & Poverty in Elizabethan Wales on 14 Nov.

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  17. Oct 29

    Those interested in all things at might be interested in the for the annual conf:

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    Oct 29

    CFP: Historians of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland Annual Conference

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    Oct 29

    This unidentified mid-17thC couple is by John Souch - she holds a tulip, which I love (Grosvenor) Exquisite details thourghout.

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  20. Oct 29

    Looking forward to hearing paper by Jennifer Binczewski, 'Behind Closed Doors: Widows Hosting Clandestine Mass in Post-Reformation England'

  21. Oct 29

    In the final session of - panel 192, 'Negotiating Catholicism'

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