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Details for Professor Brendan Smith
| Personal details | |
| Name | Professor Brendan Smith |
| Job title | Professor of Medieval History |
| Department | Department of History (Historical Studies) University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | M.A., Ph.D.(Dub.) |
| Professional details | |
| Membership of professional bodies | Fellow of the Royal Historical Society Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London |
| Keywords | medieval Ireland frontier societies colonial history Anglo-Irish relations religion and politics |
| Areas of expertise | I research and write about English intervention in medieval Ireland, which began in 1170. I am interested in the colonial society which developed in Ireland in the centuries after the English arrived, the relationship between natives and newcomers, and that between colonists and the home country. I place the Irish experience in a 'British Isles' context which involved comparison with the experience of the Scots and Welsh, who also felt the force of English expansionism in the Middle Ages. |