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David Woods

David Woods graduated with a 1st class BA in Greek and Latin from St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, in 1987. He did his postgraduate research at the Queen's University of Belfast under the supervision of Dr. Raymond Davis. He obtained his PhD in 1991 for his thesis ‘The Christianization of the Roman Army in the Fourth Century.’ He then worked in the Rescue and Insolvency Division of the chartered accountants Coopers & Lybrand, Belfast. He taught Latin for a year (1995-96) at St. Patrick's Classical School, Navan, Co. Meath, before obtaining a temporary appointment in the Department of Ancient Classics, St. Patrick's College, Maynooth (1996-98). He is now a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Classics at UCC, teaching language courses and Roman history.
The Dean of Arts Prof. Peter Woodman (right) presents Dr. Woods (left) with his Faculty of Arts Research Award in April 2003.

Research Interests

Publications

The following is a full list of my publications, current and forthcoming. Where a paper has yet to be published, the number of words are given, which figures exclude bibliography and notes. I am the sole author of all papers.

  1. ‘The Date of the Translation of the Relics of SS. Luke and Andrew to Constantinople’
    Vigiliae Christianae 45 (1991), 286-92
  2. ‘The Early Career of the Magister Equitum Jacobus’
    Classical Quarterly 41 (1991), 571-74
  3. ‘Beata Tranquillitas’
    Cahiers numismatiques 29 (1992), no. 114, 11-15
  4. ‘A Note Concerning the Regii Emeseni Iudaei’
    Latomus 51 (1992), 404-7
  5. ‘The Martyrdom of the Priest Basil of Ancyra’
    Vigiliae Christianae 46 (1992), 31-39
  6. ‘Two Notes on the Great Persecution’
    Journal of Theological Studies 43 (1992), 128-34
  7. ‘The Relics of the Gothic Martyrs Ina, Rema, and Pinna’
    Museum Helveticum 49 (1992), 256-57
  8. ‘An Earthquake at Constantinople: Augustine's De Excidio Urbis VI.7’
    Augustiniana 42 (1992), 331-37
  9. ‘Some Addenda to PLRE’
    Historia 42 (1993), 122-25
  10. ‘Nonnus, An Unnoticed Governor of Phoenicia and the Myth of a Second Council of Tyre’
    Latomus 52 (1993), 634-42
  11. ‘Three Notes on the Arian Controversy c.AD 354-367’
    Journal of Theological Studies 44 (1993), 604-19
  12. ‘The Origin of Honoratus of Lérins’
    Mnemosyne 46 (1993), 78-86
  13. ‘The Ownership and Disposal of Military Equipment in the Late Roman Empire’
    Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 4 (1993), 59-69
  14. ‘A Historical Source of the Passio Typasii’
    Vigiliae Christianae 47 (1993), 78-84
  15. ‘St. Christopher, Bishop Peter of Attalia, and the Cohors Marmaritarum: A Fresh Examination’
    Vigiliae Christianae 48 (1994), 170-86
  16. ‘An Unnoticed Official: The Praepositus Saltus’
    Classical Quarterly 44 (1994), 245-51
  17. ‘The Origin of the Legend of Maurice and the Theban Legion’
    Journal of Ecclesiastical History 45 (1994), 385-95
  18. ‘The Baptism of the Emperor Valens’
    Classica et Mediaevalia 45 (1994), 211-21
  19. ‘The Fate of the Magister Equitum Marcellus’
    Classical Quarterly 45 (1995), 266-68
  20. ‘A Note Concerning the Early Career of Valentinian I’
    Ancient Society 26 (1995), 273-88
  21. ‘Tatianus and the Basilica of Menas’
    Byzantion 65 (1995), 467-74
  22. ‘Julian, Arbogastes, and the Signa of the Ioviani and Herculiani’
    Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 6 (1995), 61-68
  23. ‘Ammianus Marcellinus and the Deaths of Bonosus and Maximilianus’
    Hagiographica 2 (1995), 25-55
  24. ‘Eusebius, VC 4.21, and the Notitia Dignitatum’
    Studia Patristica 29 (1996), 195-202
  25. ‘Varus of Egypt: A Fictitious Military Martyr’
    Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 20 (1996), 175-200
  26. ‘Subarmachius, Bacurius, and the Schola Scutariorum Sagittariorum’
    Classical Philology 91 (1996), 365-71
  27. ‘The Scholae Palatinae and the Notitia Dignitatum’
    Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 7 (1996), 27-42
  28. ‘The Saracen Defenders of Constantinople in 378’
    Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 37 (1996), 359-79
  29. Ammianus and Some Tribuni Scholarum Palatinarum c.AD 353-364
    Classical Quarterly 47 (1997), 269-91
  30. ‘An Imperial Embassy in the Historia Monachorum’
    Journal of Theological Studies 48 (1997), 133-36
  31. ‘Where did Constantine I die?’
    Journal of Theological Studies 48 (1997), 531-35
  32. ‘Valerius Victorinus Again’
    Chiron 27 (1997), 85-93
  33. ‘On the “Standard-Bearers” at Strasbourg: Libanius, Or. 18.58-66’
    Mnemosyne 50 (1997), 479-80
  34. ‘The Emperor Julian and the Passion of Sergius and Bacchus’
    Journal of Early Christian Studies 5 (1997), 335-67
  35. ‘Amm. 22.4.6: An Unnoticed Anti-Christian Jibe’
    Journal of Theological Studies 49 (1998), 145-48
  36. ‘On the Death of the Empress Fausta’
    Greece & Rome 45 (1998), 70-86
  37. ‘Arbazacius, Fravitta, and the Government of Isauria ca. AD 396-404’
    Phoenix 52 (1998), 109-119
  38. ‘Maurus, Mavia, and Ammianus’
    Mnemosyne 51 (1998), 325-36
  39. ‘Valens, Valentinian I, and the Ioviani Cornuti’
    in C. Deroux (ed.), Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History IX
    (Collection Latomus 244: Brussels, 1998), 463-86
  40. ‘Ammianus and Eutherius’
    Acta Classica 41 (1998), 110-118
  41. ‘Two Notes on Late Roman Military Equipment’
    Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 9 (1998), 31-35
  42. ‘The Role of the Comes Lucillianus during Julian's Persian Expedition’
    L'Antiquité Classique 67 (1998), 243-48
  43. ‘The Final Commission of Artemius the Former Dux Aegypti
    Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 23 (1999), 2-24
  44. ‘Jerome, Ep. 60.15.3: Gratian and the Walls of Lyons’
    Ancient History Bulletin 13 (1999), 56-59
  45. ‘The Origin of the Cult of St. Theagenes of Parium’
    Greek Orthodox Theological Review 44 (1999), 371-417
  46. ‘A Persian at Rome: Ammianus and Eunapius Frag. 68’
    Jan Willem Drijvers and David Hunt (eds.), The Late Roman World and its Historian:
    Interpreting Ammianus Marcellinus     (Routledge: London, 1999), 156-165
  47. ‘Caligula's Seashells’
    Greece & Rome 47 (2000), 80-87
  48. ‘On St. Artemios as “Deacon”’
    Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 24 (2000), 230-34
  49. ‘Thessalonica's Patron: Saint Demetrius or Emeterius?’
    Harvard Theological Review 93 (2000), 221-34
  50. ‘Ammianus Marcellinus and the Rex Alamannorum Vadomarius’
    Mnemosyne 53 (2000), 690-710
  51. ‘On "Ships in the Air" in 749’
    Peritia 14 (2000), 429-30
  52. ‘Julian, Gallienus, and the Solar Bull’
    American Journal of Numismatics 12 (2000), 157-69
  53. ‘Strategius and the “Manichaeans”’
    Classical Quarterly 51 (2001), 255-64
  54. ‘The Church of “St.” Acacius at Constantinople’
    Vigiliae Christianae 55 (2001), 201-07
    Translated into Italian and reprinted as ‘La Chiesa di Sant' Agazio a Constantinopoli’
    Vivarium Squillacense 16 (2005), 93-100
  55. ‘Grain Prices at Antioch Again’
    Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 134 (2001), 233-38
  56. ‘Dating Basil of Caesarea's Correspondence with Arintheus and his Widow’
    Studia Patristica 37 (2001), 301-307
  57. ‘"Veturius" and the Beginning of the Diocletianic Persecution’
    Mnemosyne 54 (2001), 587-91
  58. ‘Some Eunapiana’
    in K. McGroarty, ed. Eklogai (Maynooth, 2001), 85-132
  59. ‘Amandus: Rustic Rebel or Pirate Prince?’
    Ancient History Bulletin 15 (2001), 44-49
  60. ‘A Misunderstood Monogram: Ricimer or Severus?’
    Hermathena 172 (2002), 5-21
  61. ‘Eusebius on Some Constantinian Officials’
    Irish Theological Quarterly 67 (2002), 195-223
  62. ‘Did Caligula plan to bridge the English Channel?’
    The Ancient World 33 (2002), 157-169
  63. ‘St Maximilian of Tebessa and the Jizya’
    in P. Defosse (ed.), Hommages à Carl Deroux. V. Christianisme et Moyen Âge, Néo-latin et survivance de la latinité
    (Collection Latomus 279: Brussels, 2003), 266-76
  64. ‘Arculf's Luggage: The Sources for Adomnán's De Locis Sanctis’
    Ériu 52 (2002), 25-52
  65. ‘Gregory Thaumaturgus and the Earthquake of 344’
    Journal of Theological Studies 53 (2002), 547-553
  66. ‘The 60 Martyrs of Gaza and the Martyrdom of Bishop Sophronius of Jerusalem’
    ARAM Periodical 15 (2003), 129-50
    Reprinted in M. Bonner (ed.), Arab-Byzantine Relations in Early Islamic Times (Aldershot, 2005)
  67. ‘Ammianus Marcellinus and Bishop Eusebius of Emesa’
    Journal of Theological Studies 54 (2003), 585-91
  68. ‘Ammianus and the blood-sucking Saracen’
    in K. Sidwell (ed.) Pleiades Setting: Essays for Pat Cronin on his 65th birthday (Cork, 2002), 127-45
  69. ‘Four Notes on Adomnán's Vita Columbae’
    Peritia 16 (2002), 40-67
  70. ‘Olympius and the 'Saracens' of Sicily’
    Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 27 (2003), 262-65
  71. ‘Acorns, the Plague, and the 'Iona Chronicle'’
    Peritia 17-18 (2003-04), 495-502
  72. ‘The Constantinian Origin of Justina (Themistius, Or.3.43b)’
    Classical Quarterly 54 (2004), 325-27
  73. ‘Amm. 21.6.3: A Misunderstood Omen’
    Classical Philology 99 (2004), 163-68
  74. ‘The Crosses on the Glass Pilgrim Vessels from Jerusalem’
    Journal of Glass Studies 46 (2004), 191-95
  75. ‘Some Dubious Stylites on Early Byzantine Glassware’
    Journal of Glass Studies 46 (2004), 39-49
  76. ‘Nero's Pet Hippopotamus (Suet. Nero 37.2)’
    Arctos 38 (2004), 219-22
  77. ‘The Consequences of Nero's Ill-Health in AD64’
    Eranos 102 (2004), 109-16
  78. ‘Malalas, "Constantius", and a Church-Inscription from Antioch’
    Vigiliae Christianae 59 (2005), 54-62
  79. ‘Caligula, Ptolemy of Mauretania, and the Danger of Long Hair’
    Arctos 39 (2005), 207-14
  80. ‘An 'Earthquake' in Britain in 664’
    Peritia 19 (2005), 256-62
  81. ‘Flavius Felix and the Signum of the Numerus Divitiensium’
    ZPE 156 (2006), 242-44
  82. ‘Tacitus, Nero, and the 'Pirate' Anicetus’
    Latomus 65 (2006), 641-49
  83. ‘Sopater of Apamea: A Convert at the Court of Constantine I ?’
    Studia Patristica 39 (2006), 139-44
  84. ‘On the Health of the Emperor Heraclius c.638-41’
    Byzantinoslavica 64 (2006), 99-110
  85. ‘Valentinian I, Severa, Marina, and Justina’
    Classica et Mediaevalia 57 (2006), 173-87
  86. ‘On the Alleged Reburial of Julian the Apostate at Constantinople’
    Byzantion 76 (2006), 364-71
  87. ‘Adomnán, Arculf, and the True Cross: Overlooked Evidence for the Visit of the Emperor Heraclius to Jerusalem c.630 ?’
    ARAM Periodical 18-19 (2006-07), 403-13
  88. ‘Libanius, Bemarchius, and the Mausoleum of Constantine I’
    in C. Deroux (ed.), Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History XIII
    (Collection Latomus 301: Brussels, 2006), 428-39
  89. ‘Pliny, Nero, and the 'Emerald' (NH 37,64)’
    Arctos 40 (2006), 189-96
  90. ‘Caligula’s Gallic Captives (Suet. Calig. 47)’
    Latomus 66 (2007), 900-04
  91. ‘Jews, Rats, and the Battle of Yarmuk’
    in A.S. Lewin and P. Pellegrini (eds.), The Late Roman Army in the Near East from Diocletian to the Arab Conquest (BAR Int. Ser. 1717: Oxford, 2007), 367-76
  92. ‘Tiberius on Caligula the Snake and Other Contextual Problems’
    Arctos 41 (2007), 117-27
  93. ‘Concealing Caligula's Epilepsy’
    in C. Deroux (ed.), Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History XIV (Collection Latomus 315: Brussels, 2008), 306-12
  94. ‘Lactantius, Valerian, and Halophilic Bacteria’
    Mnemosyne 61 (2008), 479-81
  95. ‘St. Patrick and the ‘Sun’ (Conf. 20)’
    Studia Hibernica 34 (2006-07), 9-16
  96. ‘St. Columba, Silnán, and the 'Male Bovine' (VC 2.17)’
    Journal of Theological Studies 59 (2008), 696-702
  97. ‘Pope Zacharias (741-52) and the Head of St. George’
    ARAM Periodical 20 (2008), 163-80
  98. ‘The Good Soldier’s End: From Suicide to Martyrdom’
    Byzantinoslavica 66 (2008), 71-86
  99. ‘Late Antique Historiography: A Brief History of Time’
    in P. Rousseau (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Late Antiquity (Oxford, 2009), 357-72
  100. ‘Nero and Sporus’
    Latomus 68 (2009), 73-82
  101. ‘Tiberius, Tacfarinas, and the Jews’
    Arctos 42 (2008), 267-84
  102. ‘Nero, 'Doryphorus', and the Christians’
    Eranos 104 (2006-07), 38-47
  103. ‘Caligula, Pompey, and Alexander the Great’
    Eranos 104 (2006-07), 120-33
  104. ‘Caligula on Augustus' Alleged Incest with Julia’
    Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 152 (2009), 400-405
  105. ‘The Origin of the Cult of St. George’
    in D.V. Twomey and M. Humphries (eds.), The Great Persecution: The Proceedings of the Fifth Patristic Conference, Maynooth, 2003 (Dublin, 2009), 141-58
  106. ‘On the Circumstances of Adomnán's Composition of the De Locis Sanctis’
    in J. Wooding (ed.), Adomnán of Iona: Theologian, Lawmaker, Peacemaker (Dublin, 2009), forthcoming
    4,100 words
  107. ‘The Cross in the Public Square: The Column-Mounted Cross c.AD450-750’
    in forthcoming conference-proceedings
    5,500 words
  108. ‘Palladius and the Scotti’
    Peritia, forthcoming
    7,200 words
  109. ‘Gildas, Aetius, and Patrick’
    Journal of Celtic Studies, forthcoming
    4,600 words
  110. ‘Three Notes on Military Affairs under Nero’
    Réma, forthcoming
    9,600 words
  111. ‘Ammianus versus Libanius on Barbatio's Alleged Bridge across the Rhine’
    Mnemosyne, forthcoming
    2,700 words
  112. ‘Caesar the Elephant against Juba the Snake’
    Numismatic Chronicle, forthcoming
    1,200 words
  113. ‘On Caesar's Coinage in 48BC’
    Latomus, forthcoming
    1,900 words
  114. ‘The Deathbed Conversion of Galerius Maximianus to Religious Tolerance: Fact or Fraud ?’
    Studia Patristica, forthcoming
    1,900 words
  115. ‘Gildas and the Mystery Cloud of 536-37’
    Journal of Theological Studies 61 (2010), forthcoming
    2,500 words

Reviews

  1. Of R. W. Burgess, Studies in Eusebian and Post-Eusebian Chronography (Stuttgart, 1999)
    Journal of Theological Studies 52 (2001), 900-03
  2. Of A. Cameron and P. Garnsey (eds), Cambridge History XIII: The Late Empire AD 337-425 (Cambridge, 1998)
    Classical Review 51 (2001), 339-40
  3. Of M. Edwards, Constantine and Christendom (Liverpool, 2003)
    Peritia 16 (2002), 497-99
  4. Of A. Cameron, B. Ward-Perkins, M. Whitby (eds), Cambridge History XIV: Late Antiquity:
    Empire and Successors, A.D. 425-600     (Cambridge, 2000)
    Classical Review 54 (2004), 185-86
  5. Of N. Lenski, Failure of Empire: Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D (Berkeley, 2002)
    Journal of Roman Archaeology 17 (2004), 729-34
  6. Of M.P. Speidel, Ancient Germanic Warriors: Warrior Styles from Trajan's Column to Icelandic Sagas (London, 2004)
    German History 23 (2005), 557-58
  7. Of S. Bassett, The Urban Image of Late Antique Constantinople (Cambridge, 2004)
    Classics Ireland 12 (2005), 72-73
  8. Of G. Clark, Christianity and Roman Society (Cambridge, 2004),
    Classics Ireland 12 (2005), 81-83
  9. Of C. Odahl, Constantine and the Christian Empire (London, 2004)
    Classics Ireland 12 (2005), 107-09
  10. Of T. Charles-Edwards, The Chronicle of Ireland (Liverpool, 2006)
    Classics Ireland 13 (2006), 85-88
  11. Of H. Drake (ed), Violence in Late Antiquity: Perceptions and Practices (Aldershot, 2006)
    Classics Ireland 14 (2007), 104-06
  12. Of S. Tougher, Julian the Apostate (Edinburgh, 2007)
    Classics Ireland 14 (2007), 141-43
  13. Of D.Shotter, Nero Caesar Augustus: Emperor of Rome (Edinburgh, 2008)
    Classics Ireland 15 (2008), 136-39
  14. Of J. den Boeft, J.W. Drijvers, D. den Hengst, and H.C. Teitler (eds), Ammianus after Julian: The Reign of Valentinian and Valens in Books 26-31 of the Res Gestae (Leiden, 2007)
    Classical Review 59 (2009), 159-61
  15. Of J. den Boeft, J.W. Drijvers, D. den Hengst, and H.C. Teitler (eds), Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXVI (Leiden, 2008)
    Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009-05-27
  16. Of E. Jeffreys, J. Haldon and R. Cormack (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies (Oxford, 2008)
    Classical Review 60 (2010), forthcoming
  17. Of G. Kelly, Ammianus Marcellinus: The Allusive Historian (Cambridge, 2008)
    Classical Review 60 (2010), forthcoming
  18. Of P. Amidon, Philostorgius: Church History (Leiden, 2007)
    Classical Review 60 (2010), forthcoming
  19. Of K. George, Gildas's De Excidio Britonum and the Early British Church (Woodbridge, 2009)
    Journal of Theological Studies 61 (2010), forthcoming
  20. Of M. Gorman, Mario Esposito: Studies in Hiberno-Latin Literature (Aldershot, 2006)
    Studia Hibernica, forthcoming
  21. Of P. Rousseau and M. Papoutsakis, Transformations of Late Antiquity: Essays for Peter Brown (Farnham, 2009)
    Classics Ireland 16 (2009), forthcoming
  22. Of R. Van Dam, The Roman Revolution of Constantine (Cambridge, 2007)
    Classics Ireland 16 (2009), forthcoming

Current Research

    I was awarded a Research Fellowship for 2004-05 by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences to work on a book provisionally entitled The Seventh Century Revisited: A Lost Christian Source on Early Islam. It is still in progress, and will discuss the identity, nature, and historical reliability of the so-called 'Near Easten Source' common to Theophanes Confessor (c.AD814) and various Syriac chroniclers.

Refereed Internet Publications

  1. I contributed the essay on the emperor Theodosius I (AD 379-95) to the American-based De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors.

Personal Internet Publications

  1. I have constructed a website entitled “The Military Martyrs” which contains original translations of the Greek and Latin passions of many of the military martyrs who are alleged to have suffered during the period c.AD 284-324. These translations constitute a substantial work in progress of about c.50,000 words towards a volume of annotated translations which I hope to submit to a publisher eventually.

Conference Presentations and Public Lectures

  1. 'Eusebius, VC4.21, and the Notitia Dignitatum',
    presented at the 13th International Conference on Patristic Studies, at Oxford, 21-26 August 1995
  2. 'The Military Martyrs: Some Case Studies',
    presented at an ordinary meeting of The Patristic Symposium, at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, 19 April 1997
  3. 'Did Caligula Plan to Bridge the Channel ?',
    presented at the Classical Association Conference, Lampeter 6-9 April 1998
  4. 'Zosimus, Ammianus and Julian’s Letter to the Romans', presented at the autumn meeting of the Hibernian Hellenists, at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, October 1998
  5. 'The Childlessness of the Emperor Honorius',
    presented at 'Neither Woman nor Man: Eunuchs in Antiquity and Beyond', at the University of Wales, Cardiff, 26-28 July 1999
  6. 'Dating Basil of Caesarea's Correspondence with the Generals',
    presented at the 13th International Conference on Patristic Studies, at Oxford, 16-21 August 1999
  7. 'A Call to Mission: The Authorship and Purpose of the Passion of St. Christopher',
    presented at 'Travel in the Byzantine World', the 34th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, at the University of Birmingham, 1-4 April 2000
  8. 'The Distorted Past: The Chronology of the Latter Reign of Constantine I AD325-37',
    presented at 'The Power and the Glory: The Legacy of Constantine at the Dawn of the Third Millenium', at the University of Exeter, 7-10 August 2000
  9. 'Ammianus versus Tacitus on the Role of Women',
    presented at the 1st Celtic Conference in Classics, at N.U.I. Maynooth, 6-9 September 2000
  10. 'The Martyrdom of Bishop Sophronius of Jerusalem',
    presented at 'Palestinian Christianity AD300-1000', at the Oriental Institute, Oxford, 16-18 July 2001
  11. 'The Alleged Rebellion of the Camel-Master Calocaerus',
    presented at the 2nd Celtic Conference in Classics, at the University of Glasgow, 4-7 September 2002
  12. 'Julian, Hormisdas, and the Persian Deceivers of Julian',
    presented at the Classical Association Centenary Conference, Warwick University, 11-14 April 2003
  13. 'The Good Soldier's End',
    presented at 'Good Deaths, Bad Deaths: Death, Dying and Burial in the Ancient World', at the Institute of Classical Studies, London, 7-9 July 2003
  14. 'Sopater of Apamea: A Convert at the Court of Constantine I ?',
    presented at the 14th International Conference on Patristic Studies, at Oxford, 18-23 August 2003
  15. 'The Crosses on Some Pilgrim Vessels from Seventh-Century Jerusalem',
    presented at an ordinary meeting of The Patristic Symposium, at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, 18 October 2003
  16. 'The Origin of the Cult of St. George at Diospolis',
    presented at 'The Great Persecution, AD 303 - A Commemoration', the 5th Patristic Conference at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, 22-23 November 2003
  17. 'Fredegar's Knowledge of the East: The Origin of Two Errors',
    presented at 'Byzantine Trade (4th-12thc): Recent Archaeolgical Work', the 38th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, at St. John's College, Oxford, 27-29 March 2004
  18. 'Adomnán, Arculf, and the Holy Land',
    presented at 'Adomnán of Iona (d. 704): Theologian - Law Maker - Peace Maker', at Iona, 23-27 September 2004
  19. 'Jews, Rats, and the Battle of Yarmuk',
    presented at the 'Byzantium in Belfast' seminar at The Institute of Byzantine Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast, 9 March 2005
  20. 'Caligula, Pompey, and Alexander the Great',
    presented at the Classical Association Conference, Reading 1-4 April 2005
  21. 'The Madness of Caligula and Nero',
    presented to the Waterford branch of the Classical Association of Ireland at the Waterford Institute of Technology, 7 April 2005
  22. 'Jews, Rats, and the Reason for the Byzantine Defeat at the Battle of Yarmuk',
    presented at 'L'esercito romano tardo-antico nel vicino oriente. Da Diocleziano alla conquista araba', Potenza, Italy, 14 May 2005
  23. 'Adomnán, Arculf, and the True Cross',
    presented at 'Pigrimages and Shrines: The 21st Conference of the ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies', at the University of Oxford, 6-8 July 2005
  24. 'The Cross in the Public Square',
    presented at 'Salvation: The 6th Maynooth Patristics Conference',
    presented at The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, 19-21 July 2005
  25. 'Gildas, Aetius, and Patrick',
    presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Irish Conference of Medievalists at the NUI Maynooth Outreach Campus, St. Kieran's College, Kilkenny, 22-25 June 2006
  26. 'Pope Zacharias (741-52) and the Head of St. George',
    presented at 'Iconography and Mythology of the Prophet Elijah, St. George, and Al-Khodor in the Syrian Orient: The 22nd Conference of the ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies', at the University of Oxford, 4-6 July 2006
  27. 'Corruption and Mistranslation: The Common Syriac Source on the Origin of the Mardaites',
    presented at the 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies, London, 21-26 August 2006
  28. 'Tiberius on Capri: The Sexual Slander of a Roman Emperor',
    presented to the Cork branch of the Classical Association of Ireland, 2 October 2006
  29. 'Nicephorus, Tyana, and Chronicle of Zuqnin',
    presented at 'Byzantine History as Literature', the 40th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, at the University of Birmingham, 13-16 April 2007
  30. 'St. Patrick and the 'Sun' (Conf. 20)',
    presented at the 21st Annual Meeting of the Irish Conference of Medievalists at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 28-30 June 2007
  31. 'The Deathbed Conversion of Galerius Maximianus to Religious Tolerance: Fact or Fraud ?'
    presented at the 15th International Conference on Patristic Studies, at Oxford, 6-11 August 2007
  32. 'Byzantine Recruitment in the Seventh Century: What Crisis ?',
    presented at 'COST A36. Tributary Empires Compared: War, Armies, and Empires', at Rethymno, Crete, 2-4 November 2007
  33. 'The Ceremonial Silver Coinage of Constans II c.651: Independent Witness to Byzantine Victory at the Battle of Phoenix ?',
    presented at 'The Archaeologies of Byzantium', the 41st Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, at the University of Edinburgh, 4-6 April 2008
  34. 'St. Columba and the ‘Block of Salt’ (VC 2.7): A Misread Herbal Cure ?',
    presented at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Irish Conference of Medievalists at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 26-29 June 2008
  35. 'Yellow Plague in Sixth-Century Ireland',
    presented at the Fifth International Conference on the Medieval Chronicle at The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, 21-25 July 2008
  36. 'The Cult of Military Martyrs c.AD300-750',
    presented to the Department of Classics, NUI Galway, 13 October 2008
  37. 'The Civil-War Coinage of Julius Caesar',
    presented to the Cork branch of the Classical Association of Ireland, 11 May 2009
  38. 'Gildas and the Mystery Cloud of 536-37',
    presented at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Irish Conference of Medievalists at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 27-29 June 2009