Hiram Morgan

Hiram Morgan, born in Belfast in 1960, is an Irish historian. He was educated at St Patrick's College Knock Castlereagh County Down and at St Catharine's College Cambridge and currently teaches at University College Cork. He is an expert on the Nine Years War (1594-1603), the career of Hugh O'Neill (1550-1616) and Ireland's connections with Europe and the wider world. He was chairman of the Royal Irish Academy Committee for Historical Sciences between 2003 and 2007. His main works are:

Tyrone's rebellion: the outbreak of the Nine Years War in Tudor Ireland (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, April 1993), no. 67 in The Royal Historical Society Studies in History series.

Political Ideology in Ireland, 1541-1641 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1999).

Information, Media and Power through the Ages (Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2001).

The Battle of Kinsale (Bray: Wordwell Books, March 2004).

With John Barry, Great Deeds in Ireland, Richard Stanihurst’s De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis (Leiden, 1584), (Cork University Press, 2013).

A founder and co-editor (1992-2002) of History Ireland, the illustrated magazine dealing with all aspects of Irish history.

Morgan is director of the world’s largest online site for Irish Studies: CELT (Corpus of Electronic Text of Ireland)

Some of Morgan’s own talks and writings are available @ https://ucc-ie.academia.edu/HiramMorgan