Hiram Morgan's Projects
in receipt of funds from PRTLI Cycle 4
DR HIRAM MORGAN
is completing a biography of Hugh O’Neill, earl of Tyrone for the Royal Irish Academy’s ‘Judging Irish Historical Figures’ series. This will be the first full scale biography of this pivotal character in Irish history. It will use Irish, British and Continental sources to solve the enigma of the Great O’Neill, originally created by the man himself to disguise his nationwide revolt against the English rule in Ireland.
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Hiram Morgan is working with John Barry of the Classics Dept UCC on a first complete translation of Richard Stanihurst’s De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis (Leiden, 1584) as part of Cork’s Irish Neo-Latin project. The aim is to produce a fully annotated critical edition of this controversial work which set in train a century of debate on Ireland’s past and on the various ethnic groups which inhabited the island.
Hiram Morgan is completing a complete edition of Sir Francis Bacon’s writings on Ireland for the CELT website. These will be drawn together from a variety of sources published and unpublished to create a revised picture of this important intellectual’s views and decisions on colonial and religious politics in Elizabethan and Jacobean Ireland.
Hiram Morgan is working with Dr John Borgonovo on the papers of the Pope Hennessy family. This important Cork Catholic family produced in turn Sir John Pope Hennessy, MP and colonial governor (1834-1891), Major-General Ladislaus Richard Pope Hennessy, General and Diplomat (1875-1942) and Sir John Pope-Hennessy, Art Historian and Museum Director (1913–1994). Work has begun on the second Pope Hennessy’s involvement in the Irish Dominion League.
