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Professor Marie Therese Flanagan

BA, MA (NUI), DPhil (Oxford), MRIA, FRHistS
Professor of Medieval History

Tel: +44 (0) 28 9097 3438

E-mail: mt.flanagan@qub.ac.uk  

Office: 17UQ.G07

 Marie Therese Flanagan is a graduate of University College Dublin and the University of Oxford. She is a former Vice-President of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, a former President of the Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies. She currently acts as International Relations Secretary of the Royal Irish Academy and is on its Executive Committee and Council. She is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College.

Research Interests

Her research interests are focused on twelfth-century Ireland and span the conventional historiographical division between the Gaelic and Anglo-Norman periods.

Select Publications

Books:

Articles and chapters:

  • 'Defining lordships in Angevin Ireland: William Marshal and the king's justiciar' in M. Aurell and F. Boutoulle (eds), Les seigneuries dans l'espace Plantagenet (Pessac, 2009)
  • 'Saint Malachy and the introduction of Cistercian monasticism to the Irish church', in Seanchas Ardmhacha, xxii (2009)
  • 'Devotional images and their uses in the twelfth-century Irish church’ in H. B. Clarke and J. R. S. Phillips (eds), Ireland, England and the Continent in the Middle Ages and beyond (Dublin, 2006).
  • ‘High-kings with opposition, 1072-1166’ in D. Ó Cróinín (ed.), A new history of Ireland, i: Prehistoric and early Ireland (Oxford, 2005).

 

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Teaching

Professor Marie Therese Flanagan teaches on the following programmes / modules:

Undergraduate

110HIS360 Kings and Saints in Early Ireland
  The Expansion of Medieval Europe
  The Anglo Normans in Ireland 

 

Current PhD supervision:

  • Daniel Brown, 'Hugh de Lacy and the earldom of Ulster'.
  • Judyta Szacillo, 'The O'Donohue Group of saints' lives in the Codex Salmanticensis'.