Brendan Kane is from Reading, Pennsylvania, and received a B.A. in history from the University of Rochester, an M.Phil in Irish Studies from the National
University of Ireland, Galway, and a PhD from Princeton. His thesis explored the politics of honor in early modern Ireland and England, 1541-1641, and is currently being revised for publication by Cambridge
University Press. Prior to coming to the University of Connecticut in 2005, he spent a year as the NEH/Keough Fellow at the University of Notre Dame's Keough Institute of Irish Studies.
Books:
The politics and culture of honour in Britain and Ireland, 1541-1641, Cambridge University Press, Studies in Early Modern British History (forthcoming)
Articles:
"Domesticating the Counter Reformation: bridging the bardic and Catholic traditions
in Geoffrey Keating's The Three Shafts of Death," The Sixteenth Century Journal
(forthcoming)
"Making the Irish European: Gaelic honor politics and its continental contexts," Renaissance Quarterly (forthcoming)
“Wentworth, Ireland and the politics of patriarchy: the case of Adam Loftus, Lord
Chancellor of Ireland,” Foilsiú: an interdisciplinary journal of Irish Studies, vol.
4, no. 1 (Spring 2004), 29-38.
“No poor mouthing here: teaching Irish through use of a novel,” with Donald MacNamara and Ken McIndoe in Journal of Celtic Language Learning, vol. 7 (2002), 92-6.
Reviews:
David Edwards, Pádraig Lenihan and Clodagh Tait (eds.), Age of Atrocity: violence
and political conflict in early modern Ireland (Dublin, 2007): Renaissance Quarterly
(forthcoming)
Brendan Scott, Religion and reformation in the Tudor diocese of Meath (Dublin, 2006)
and Anthony McCormack, The earldom of Desmond (Dublin, 2005): Field Day Review, 3
(2007)
David Como, Blown by the spirit: puritanism and emergence of an antinomian
underground in pre-Civil War England (Stanford, 2004): Theological Studies, vol. 67,
no. 1 (March 2006), 185-87.
Ciaran Brady and Jane Ohlmeyer (eds.), British interventions in early modern Ireland
(Cambridge, 2005): Institute of Historical Research's Reviews in History (March
2006).
Felicity Heal, Reformation in Britain and Ireland (Oxford, 2003): The Journal of
British Studies, vol. 44, no. 4 (October, 2005), 820-22
