Dr Karen Holland (Providence College) at the 2014 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference. Insuring the quiet of the country - Elizabeth I and Joan Fitzgerald, Countess of Desmond.

Declan Mills (University of Limerick) at the 2014 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference. Elizabethan Ireland - the graveyard of ambition or land of political opportunity.

Dr James O'Neill at the 2014 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference. Speedy swords - Violence and restraint during the Nine Years War, 1593-1603.

Dr John Jeremiah Cronin at the 2014 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference. The Irish Battlefields Project survey of the battle sites of the Confederate Wars - an illustrative analysis of four battlefields.

Jennifer Wells (Brown/IHR) at the 2014 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference. Spanish wine bee better than French - Continental Realpolitik and its imperial resonance, 1649-92.

Prof Raymond Pierre Hylton (Virginia Union University) and Dr Marie Leoutre (National Library of Ireland) at the 2014 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference. Exile to integration - Dublin as a paradigm for the Huguenots experience in Ireland.

Dr Mark Hutchinson (University of Gottingen) at the 2014 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference. Inverting Resistance Theory and the state in Elizabethan Ireland.

Anthony Hughes (NUI Maynooth) at the 2014 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference. The Stuart post office in Ireland - not just for delivering letters.