DrDeclan Downey
Lecturer/Assistant Professor
School of History
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- Lecturer/Assistant ProfessorSchool of History
- 01 716 8633
- University College Dublin, School of History, Newman Building Belfield Dublin 4
RESEARCH INTERESTS
History of Diplomacy & International Law; Contemporary European Union - Asian relations; Japanese-Western Relations, 1559-to the Present; Habsburg Austria & Spain, The Netherlands and Germany 1500-1870 ; Early Modern European and Asian Court Culture & Nobilities; Irish émigré elites in Spain, Austria, The Low Countries and Germany and c.1560-1860;
Post-Doctoral Mentorship
Principal Investigator Supervision of IRCHSS-CARA Post-Doctoral Fellow (1 Oct.2011- 30 Sept. 2015)
Dr. Edward Collins : Iberian Contributions to Nautical Scientific Developments in Northern Europe in the early modern period
Supervision of Ph.D. dissertations in History, UCD
Completed, Submitted & Examined Successfully
Sept. 2016: John O’Halloran, Mary I’s Irish bishops: careers and legacy
Defended Successfully on 3 February 2017 – Degree Conferred September 2017
Sept. 2012: Eduardo de Mesa Gallego, Ad Astra John Hume Doctoral Scholar, The Irish Tercios in the Spanish Military Revolution, 1621-1644 – Degree Conferred June 2013
Jan. 2012: Evelien Schillern IRCHSS Doctoral Scholar, The Dutch Involvement in the Williamite War in Ireland, 1689-’91 – Degree Conferred on 3 December 2012
Aug. 2011: Eoin Kinsella, Micheál Ó Cléirigh Doctoral Scholar
Not so ‘worsted in the game’: a case study of Colonel John Browne, articleman of Limerick, c.1690-1711 – Degree Conferred on September 2012
Aug. 2011: James McCrohan, The world of John Aylward: Irish émigré merchant in the late-seventeenth century - Degree Conferred on September 2012
Aug. 2011: Fintan Hoey IRCHSS Doctoral Scholar & Japan Foundation Fellow, Satô and America, US-Japanese political, military and diplomatic relations during the tenure of Satô Eisaku, Prime Minister of Japan, 1964-’72. Degree Conferred on 3 December 2012
This is the first ever Ph.D. thesis in Japanese and Asian History, ever to be submitted in an Irish university.
Supervision of M.Litt. dissertation in History, U.C.D.
2004: Brian O’Mahony, Family Matters: The Butler Archbishops of Cashel in the 18’th Century,
Current PhD Supervision
Pierfrancesco Ales, Aristocratic Ascent & Social Networks: A Comparative Study of the Spada and the Boyle Families, c. 1590 – 1660.
Post-Doctoral Mentorship
Principal Investigator Supervision of IRCHSS-CARA Post-Doctoral Fellow (1 Oct.2011- 30 Sept. 2015)
Dr. Edward Collins : Iberian Contributions to Nautical Scientific Developments in Northern Europe in the early modern period
Supervision of Ph.D. dissertations in History, UCD
Completed, Submitted & Examined Successfully
Sept. 2016: John O’Halloran, Mary I’s Irish bishops: careers and legacy
Defended Successfully on 3 February 2017 – Degree Conferred September 2017
Sept. 2012: Eduardo de Mesa Gallego, Ad Astra John Hume Doctoral Scholar, The Irish Tercios in the Spanish Military Revolution, 1621-1644 – Degree Conferred June 2013
Jan. 2012: Evelien Schillern IRCHSS Doctoral Scholar, The Dutch Involvement in the Williamite War in Ireland, 1689-’91 – Degree Conferred on 3 December 2012
Aug. 2011: Eoin Kinsella, Micheál Ó Cléirigh Doctoral Scholar
Not so ‘worsted in the game’: a case study of Colonel John Browne, articleman of Limerick, c.1690-1711 – Degree Conferred on September 2012
Aug. 2011: James McCrohan, The world of John Aylward: Irish émigré merchant in the late-seventeenth century - Degree Conferred on September 2012
Aug. 2011: Fintan Hoey IRCHSS Doctoral Scholar & Japan Foundation Fellow, Satô and America, US-Japanese political, military and diplomatic relations during the tenure of Satô Eisaku, Prime Minister of Japan, 1964-’72. Degree Conferred on 3 December 2012
This is the first ever Ph.D. thesis in Japanese and Asian History, ever to be submitted in an Irish university.
Supervision of M.Litt. dissertation in History, U.C.D.
2004: Brian O’Mahony, Family Matters: The Butler Archbishops of Cashel in the 18’th Century,
Current PhD Supervision
Pierfrancesco Ales, Aristocratic Ascent & Social Networks: A Comparative Study of the Spada and the Boyle Families, c. 1590 – 1660.