ProfessorCharles Ivar McGrath

Early modern Ireland (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries); the army, barracks and barrack-building in eighteenth-century Ireland; Jonathan Swift; the Hudson's Bay Company; early modern Britain; the British empire; politics, parliament, legislation and government; religion; public finance, taxation, national debt and credit; early modern chartered trading companies and monopolies. My current research projects include 'Family Networks, Global Connections: Tenerife's Irish Merchants in the early modern North Atlantic', in collaboration with Dr John Bergin, UCD, and Professor Tom O'Connor, Maynooth University; and historic army barracks in Ireland (https://barracksireland.wordpress.com/), in collaboration with Dr Suzanne Forbes, The Open University.