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Hire Dr. David H.

United Kingdom

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Doctor of history. Freelance historian, researcher, editor and palaeographer.

Profile Summary

I am a professional historian with over 15 years of experience. I have published five books and over two dozen articles in essay collections and peer-review journals. I've also taught extensively at third level and worked for several years as a freelance historian, researcher, palaeographer and editor. I work with a wide range of clients and companies on public history projects as well as private research. Feel free to contact me if you're looking for a historical researcher, general researcher, editor, copywriter or palaeographer.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ European History
• ☆ Renaissance History
• ☆ Historical Research
• ☆ Biographical Research & Writing

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting

Writing Technical Writing, Copywriting, Creative Writing, General Proofreading & Editing

Research Fact Checking, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Work Experience

Freelance Historian, Writer, Editor and Palaeographer

Freelancer

June 2022 - Present

Associate Lecturer

National University of Ireland, Galway

September 2021 - June 2022

Associate Lecturer

University College Cork

September 2020 - August 2021

Freelance Historian, Writer, Editor and Palaeographer

Freelancer

November 2018 - August 2020

Postdoctoral Research fellow

Queen's University Belfast

November 2016 - October 2018

Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer

University College Cork

October 2012 - October 2016

Education

PhD (History)

University College Cork

October 2007 - September 2012

Certifications

• BA (History and Classics)

  University College Cork

  September 2004 - August 2007

Publications

BOOK CHAPTER

Heffernan, D.(2024). Debating Irish policy at the court of Elizabeth I, c.1558-80 . Ireland and the Renaissance court: Political culture from the cúirteanna to Whitehall, 1450-1640. p. 105-122.

(2017). Complaint and Reform in Late Elizabethan Dublin, 1579–94.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Heffernan, D.(2023). Connecting the economies of Tudor Ireland and England: Edward Waterhouse's 'A mean to quiet the north part of Ulster...and to strengthen the northwest coast of England' . Archivium Hibernicum. 76. p. 13-30.

Heffernan, D.(2022). Corruption and crown government in late Elizabethan Ireland: the career and writings of Robert Legge . Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics and Literature. 122. (1). p. 143-167.

Heffernan, D.(2022). ‘Not Christian, Civil or Human Creatures, But Heathen or Rather Savage and Brute Beasts’: Andrew Trollope and the ‘Reform’ of Ireland in the 1580s . Irish Economic and Social History. 49. (1). p. 30-46.

Heffernan, D.(2021). Political discourse and the Nine Years' War in late Elizabethan Ireland, c.1593-1603 . Historical Research. 94. (264). p. 282-302.

(2018). Patrick Finglas's A Breviat of the Conquest of Ireland and of the Decay of the Same, ca. 1535, and the Tudor Conquest of Ireland.

Heffernan, D.P.(2018). Patrick Finglas’s A Breviat of the Conquest of Ireland and of the Decay of the Same, ca. 1535, and the Tudor Conquest of Ireland . Sixteenth Century Journal. 49. (2). p. 369-388.

Heffernan, D.(2016). The reduction of Leinster and the origins of the Tudor conquest of Ireland, c.1534-46 . Irish Historical Studies. 40. (157). p. 1-21.

BOOK

Heffernan, D.(2019). Three surveys of the londonderry plantation, 1613-16 . Analecta Hibernica. 2019-January. (50). p. 1-61.

Heffernan, D.(2018). Debating Tudor policy in sixteenth-century Ireland: 'Reform' treatises and political discourse . Debating Tudor policy in sixteenth-century Ireland: 'Reform' treatises and political discourse. p. 1-241.

Heffernan, D.(2017). Robert Cowley's 'a discourse of the cause of the evil state of Ireland and of the remedies thereof', c. 1526 . Analecta Hibernica. 2017-January. (48). p. 1-30.