Alan Ford
Professor of Theology
Department of Theology
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham NG7 2RD
URL:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/theology/people/alan.ford Intellectual interests:
Early-modern Ireland and England, in particular religious and theological developments
History of universities
Apocalyptic
Religious hatred and sectarianism in Britain and Ireland
Recent publications:
'Past but still present: Edmund Borlase, Richard Parr and the reshaping of Irish history for English audiences in the 1680s', in Brian MacCuarta, ed.,
Reshaping Ireland 1550-1700 (Dublin, 2011), pp. 281-99.
''Making dead men speak': manipulating the memory of James Usher', in Mark Williams and Stephen Forrest, eds
., Constructing the past: writing Irish history, 1600-1800 (Woodbridge, 2010), pp. 49-72.
James Ussher: theology, history, and politics in early-modern Ireland and England (Oxford, 2007).
'"Force and fear of punishment": protestants and religious coercion in Ireland, 1603–33', in Elizabethanne Boran and Crawford Gribben, eds.,
Enforcing reformation in Ireland and Scotland, 1550–1700 (Aldershot, 2006), pp. 91-130.
Alan Ford and John. McCafferty, eds.,
The origins of sectarianism in early-modern Ireland (Cambridge, 2005).