Coleman A. Dennehy
Dr Coleman A. Dennehy has taught at Maynooth, Limerick, and University College London, and was a visiting scientific researcher at Das Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte in Frankfurt-am-Main, and a visiting professor at Das Institut für Rechts- und Verfassungsgeschichte at the Faculty of Law, University of Vienna. He is interested in early modern history, the history of representative assemblies, appellate legal history, and the history of crime and punishment. He is the Reviews Editor for Parliaments, Estates & Representation / Parlements, États & Représentation, is 2nd Secretary-General of the International Commission for the History of Representative & Parliamentary Institutions, and is also a Councillor of the Irish Legal History Society. He was recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has published many articles and chapters, and has four books to his name: Restoration Ireland: Always settling and never settled; The Irish parliament, 1613-89: The evolution of a colonial institution; Law and revolution in Seventeenth-Century Ireland; Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, and his world: Restoration court, politics and diplomacy (with Robin Eagles). He is contracted to write or edit a number of books in the coming years, in particular an edition of the diaries of the 2nd earl of Cork / 1st earl of Burlington (with Patrick Little) and a book on crime and punishment in early modern Ireland. Source: Commons
