Brendan C Walsh
Biographic Data
| ID | 1372996 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brendan C Walsh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brendan C |
| FAMILY NAME | Walsh |
| SIGNATURE | WALSH B C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dublin City University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9371-3007 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Routledge History of the Devil in the Western Tradition
‘The Properest Witch He Ever Knowed’: Belief and Insanity in the 1875 James Haywood Witchcraft Murder Trial
This article presents a narrative history of the infamous 1875 trial of James Haywood. In September this year, Haywood viciously murdered his neighbour Ann Tennant who he believed to be a witch; leader of a coven that had terrorised him and his fellow villagers for years. Taking place in the village of Long Compton—situated on the Oxfordshire-Warwickshire border—the crime was covered extensively by the press and depicted as a tragic consequence o…
Endowed Schooling in Ireland: A History of Deceit
Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, various charitable, endowed or “free” schools were established in Ireland with a view to providing schooling, initially for children of primary and later secondary school age, the latter being the subject of this article. Sometimes these schools were state initiatives, such as the parish and diocesan schools, established by Henry VIII and Elizabeth I respectively, but mostly they were voluntary unde…
The Boy of Tocutt” and the Demonic Covenant in Seventeenth-Century New England Demonology
The New England demonic possession narrative, “A Confession of a Boy at Tocutt,” remains conspicuously absent from the rich scholarship on diabolic affliction in seventeenth-century North America. Appearing in Cotton Mather’s 1689Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions, this narrative details the torments of one settler, known only as “The Boy of Tocutt,” in Branford Connecticut (ca. 1645–1666). While incomplete, this accou…
He Could Raise and Lay Ghosts at His Will’: Victorian Folklorists and the Creation of Early Modern Clerical Ghost-Laying
Folk legends of brave clergymen confronting terrifying apparitions in fields and houses can be heard all throughout rural England. Situated in the early modern period, these tales establish the archetype of the ‘conjuring parson’ and perpetuate the spiritual tradition of ‘ghost-laying’: the exorcism of ghosts. Clerical ghost-laying, however, is a spiritual tradition without a well-founded historical or theological precedent. The few extant sixtee…
More sinn’d against than sinning? The intermediate system of schooling in Ireland 1878–1922
The Intermediate System of schooling, which operated in Ireland between 1878 and 1922, has, generally, been considered limited in ambition and as having generated a culture of high-stake terminal examinations. This article seeks a more nuanced understanding of the system and proposes that, despite an evolving system of secondary provision in Ireland prior to 1878, the Intermediate System provided an armature for a national system, prompted the aw…
Demonic Assault, Providence, and the Search for Salvation in Early Modern Reformed English Protestant Theology
During the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries-the height of European demonological interest-England experienced a series of demonic possession cases that gained substantial attention from the clergy and laypeople alike. Reported across sensationalist pamphlets and learned demonological treatises, these cases were presented as extraordinary tokens of God's providence intended to be interpreted and responded to by those involved. Englis…
‘Nobody Will Even Remember It’: An Oral History of the Contribution of the Teaching Religious in Ireland (I)
'Nobody Will Even Remember It': An Oral History of the Contribution of the Teaching Religious in Ireland (I)* Brendan Walsh Background This article seeks to review the contribution of teaching religious (sisters, priests and brothers) to schooling in Ireland between the 1940s and late 1970s, and principally employs the oral testimony of those who were taught by, and later taught with or as, members of religious congregations. Its purpose is to sh…
The “Haunting Silence”: Autobiographical accounts of secondary teaching in twentieth-century Ireland
This article employs five teacher autobiographies in an attempt to examine their contribution to the history of teaching in Ireland. The article argues that such autobiographies provide significant insights into the history of the classroom and often represent subversive and disruptive narratives. As such they represent a valuable but overlooked source
A History of Anglican Exorcism: Deliverance and Demonology in Church Ritual
The resurgence of demonic possession in modern Anglican spirituality has received a considerable amount of scholarly attention. Given that for over three centuries the Church of England was largely skeptical of postapostolic possessions and placed strict limitations on the conditions under which an exorcism could take place, this shift in ecclesiastical policy during the mid-twentieth century is indeed a development that merits further analysis. …
Children of Wrath: Possession, Prophecy and the Young in Early Modern England
He Could Raise and Lay Ghosts at His Will’: Victorian Folklorists and the Creation of Early Modern Clerical Ghost-Laying
Folk legends of brave clergymen confronting terrifying apparitions in fields and houses can be heard all throughout rural England. Situated in the early modern period, these tales establish the archetype of the ‘conjuring parson’ and perpetuate the spiritual tradition of ‘ghost-laying’: the exorcism of ghosts. Clerical ghost-laying, however, is a spiritual tradition without a well-founded historical or theological precedent. The few extant sixtee…
Children of Wrath: Possession, Prophecy and the Young in Early Modern England
A History of Anglican Exorcism: Deliverance and Demonology in Church Ritual
The resurgence of demonic possession in modern Anglican spirituality has received a considerable amount of scholarly attention. Given that for over three centuries the Church of England was largely skeptical of postapostolic possessions and placed strict limitations on the conditions under which an exorcism could take place, this shift in ecclesiastical policy during the mid-twentieth century is indeed a development that merits further analysis. …
The “Haunting Silence”: Autobiographical accounts of secondary teaching in twentieth-century Ireland
This article employs five teacher autobiographies in an attempt to examine their contribution to the history of teaching in Ireland. The article argues that such autobiographies provide significant insights into the history of the classroom and often represent subversive and disruptive narratives. As such they represent a valuable but overlooked source
‘Nobody Will Even Remember It’: An Oral History of the Contribution of the Teaching Religious in Ireland (I)
'Nobody Will Even Remember It': An Oral History of the Contribution of the Teaching Religious in Ireland (I)* Brendan Walsh Background This article seeks to review the contribution of teaching religious (sisters, priests and brothers) to schooling in Ireland between the 1940s and late 1970s, and principally employs the oral testimony of those who were taught by, and later taught with or as, members of religious congregations. Its purpose is to sh…
More sinn’d against than sinning? The intermediate system of schooling in Ireland 1878–1922
The Intermediate System of schooling, which operated in Ireland between 1878 and 1922, has, generally, been considered limited in ambition and as having generated a culture of high-stake terminal examinations. This article seeks a more nuanced understanding of the system and proposes that, despite an evolving system of secondary provision in Ireland prior to 1878, the Intermediate System provided an armature for a national system, prompted the aw…
Demonic Assault, Providence, and the Search for Salvation in Early Modern Reformed English Protestant Theology
During the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries-the height of European demonological interest-England experienced a series of demonic possession cases that gained substantial attention from the clergy and laypeople alike. Reported across sensationalist pamphlets and learned demonological treatises, these cases were presented as extraordinary tokens of God's providence intended to be interpreted and responded to by those involved. Englis…
The Boy of Tocutt” and the Demonic Covenant in Seventeenth-Century New England Demonology
The New England demonic possession narrative, “A Confession of a Boy at Tocutt,” remains conspicuously absent from the rich scholarship on diabolic affliction in seventeenth-century North America. Appearing in Cotton Mather’s 1689Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions, this narrative details the torments of one settler, known only as “The Boy of Tocutt,” in Branford Connecticut (ca. 1645–1666). While incomplete, this accou…
He Could Raise and Lay Ghosts at His Will’: Victorian Folklorists and the Creation of Early Modern Clerical Ghost-Laying
Folk legends of brave clergymen confronting terrifying apparitions in fields and houses can be heard all throughout rural England. Situated in the early modern period, these tales establish the archetype of the ‘conjuring parson’ and perpetuate the spiritual tradition of ‘ghost-laying’: the exorcism of ghosts. Clerical ghost-laying, however, is a spiritual tradition without a well-founded historical or theological precedent. The few extant sixtee…
Endowed Schooling in Ireland: A History of Deceit
Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, various charitable, endowed or “free” schools were established in Ireland with a view to providing schooling, initially for children of primary and later secondary school age, the latter being the subject of this article. Sometimes these schools were state initiatives, such as the parish and diocesan schools, established by Henry VIII and Elizabeth I respectively, but mostly they were voluntary unde…
‘The Properest Witch He Ever Knowed’: Belief and Insanity in the 1875 James Haywood Witchcraft Murder Trial
This article presents a narrative history of the infamous 1875 trial of James Haywood. In September this year, Haywood viciously murdered his neighbour Ann Tennant who he believed to be a witch; leader of a coven that had terrorised him and his fellow villagers for years. Taking place in the village of Long Compton—situated on the Oxfordshire-Warwickshire border—the crime was covered extensively by the press and depicted as a tragic consequence o…
The Routledge History of the Devil in the Western Tradition
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