Dr. Vincent Carey

• Social history of early modern Europe
• Colonialism and European expansion in the early modern world
• Intellectual history: humanism, reformation and the renaissance
• Sixteenth century Ireland
• Tudor England

• Ireland in the sixteenth century
• Renaissance influences on early modern English colonialism
• Early modern English literature on Ireland
• Early modern Europe

Book, Editor:

• Covington, S., Carey, V.P., & McGowan-Doyle, V. (Eds.). (2018). Early Modern Ireland: New Sources, Methods, and Perspectives (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351243018

Articles:

• “‘As lief to the gallows as go to the Irish wars’: Human Rights and the Abuse of the Elizabethan Soldier in Ireland, 1600-1603,” History 99 (July, 2014), 468–86.
• “‘What’s Love Got to Do With It’: Gender and Geraldine Power on the Pale Border” in Thomas Herron and Michael Potterton, eds., Dublin and the Pale in the Renaissance (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011), 93–103.
• “Elizabeth I and State Terror in Sixteenth Century Ireland” in Donald Stump, Linda Shenk and Carole Levin, eds., Elizabeth I and the ‘Sovereign Arts’: Essays in Literature, History, and Culture” (Tempe, AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 2011), 201–216.
• “Icons of Atrocity: John Derricke’s Image of Irelande” (1581) in Allison Kavey, ed. World Building and the Early Modern Imagination (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 233–254.