Staff profile

I am the Sepulchrine Fellow in the History of Catholicism, a historian of early modern religious and intellectual culture, with a particular research interest in Catholic religious and their interactions with the Enlightenment and French Revolution.

I undertook undergraduate studies at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, before going on to study for a doctorate at Maynooth University, completing a thesis entitled 'Clergy and Laity in the Catholic Renewal of Dublin c. 1750-1830'.

From 2015-17 I was a member of the AHRC-funded Monks in Motion Project, based at Durham University. The project explored the experiences of the English Benedictine monks in exile, c. 1553-1800 (https://www.dur.ac.uk/mim/). From 2017-19 I was employed on a project exploring the history of Goldenbridge, a large centre of institutional and educational care in Dublin founded in the mid-nineteenth century. The project was undertaken in conjunction with the Sisters of Mercy and University College Dublin. I am currently completing a monograph on the subject, entitled 'Goldenbridge, 1855-1910: a history of Catholic institutional care'.

Chapter in book

• Meandering Towards an Inevitable Death? English Benedictine Monasteries and their Responses to Enlightenment and Revolution
  
  Begadon, C. (2021). Meandering Towards an InevitableDeath? English BenedictineMonasteries and their Responses toEnlightenment and Revolution. In British and Irish Religious Orders in Europe, 1560–1800: Conventuals, Mendicants and Monastics in Motion. (pp. 245-265). Durham University IMEMS Press.
• Devotion and the Promotion of Public Morality: Confraternities and Sodalities in Early Modern Ireland
  
  Begadon, C. (2017). Devotion and the Promotion of Public Morality: Confraternities and Sodalities in Early Modern Ireland. In D. Bullen Presciutti (Ed.), Space, Place and Motion: Locating Confraternities in the Late Medieval and Early Modern City (pp. 106-124). Leiden: Brill 2016. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004339521_007
• ‘The 2nd Duke of Leinster and the Establishment of St Patrick's College, Maynooth’
  
  Begadon, C. (2014). ‘The 2nd Duke of Leinster and the Establishment of St Patrick’s College, Maynooth’. In P. Cosgrave, T. Dooley, & K. Mullaney-Dignam (Eds.), Aspects of Aristocratic Life: Essays on the Fitzgeralds and Carton House.. UCD Press.
• ‘Confraternities and the Renewal of Catholic Dublin, c.1750-c.1830’
  
  Begadon, C. (2012). ‘Confraternities and the Renewal of Catholic Dublin, c.1750-c.1830’. In C. Lennon (Ed.), Confraternities and Sodalities in Ireland: Charity, Devotion and Sociability. Columba Press.
• ‘Catholic Devotional Literature in Dublin, 1800-1830’
  
  Begadon, C. (2011). ‘Catholic Devotional Literature in Dublin, 1800-1830’. In J. Murphy (Ed.), The Oxford History of the Irish Book: the Irish Book in English.. Oxford University Press.
• ‘The Renewal of Catholic Religious Culture in Eighteenth-Century Dublin’
  
  Begadon, C. (2011). ‘The Renewal of Catholic Religious Culture in Eighteenth-Century Dublin’. In J. Bergin, E. Magennis, L. Ní Mhungaile, & P. Walsh (Eds.), New Perspectives on the Penal Laws.. Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society.
• ‘Catholic Religious Publishing in Ireland in the Nineteenth Century’
  
  Begadon, C. (2011). ‘Catholic Religious Publishing in Ireland in the Nineteenth Century’. In J. Murphy (Ed.), The Oxford History of the Irish Book: the Irish Book in English. Oxford University Press.

Edited book

• British and Irish Religious Orders in Europe, 1560–1800: Conventuals, Mendicants and Monastics in Motion
  
  Begadon, C., & Kelly, J. E. (Eds.). (2021). British and Irish Religious Orders in Europe, 1560–1800: Conventuals, Mendicants and Monastics in Motion. Durham University IMEMS Press.

Journal Article

• Responses to revolution: The experiences of the English Benedictine monks in the French Revolution, 1789–93
  
  Begadon, C. (2018). Responses to revolution: The experiences of the English Benedictine monks in the French Revolution, 1789–93. British Catholic History, 34(1), 106-128. https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2018.4
• An Enlightened Opportunist? Richard Marsh OSB (1762-1843)
  
  Begadon, C. (2018). An Enlightened Opportunist? Richard Marsh OSB (1762-1843). Erbe Und Auftrag : Benediktinische Monatsschrift., 94.
• ‘New Perspectives on the ‘Devotional Revolution’. Evidence from the Irish College, Paris’
  
  Begadon, C. (2018). ‘New Perspectives on the ‘Devotional Revolution’. Evidence from the Irish College, Paris’. Archivium Hibernicum, 79.
• ‘A Prosopography of Professors at the Irish College, Paris, c. 1800-1939’
  
  Begadon, C. (2017). ‘A Prosopography of Professors at the Irish College, Paris, c. 1800-1939’. Archivium Hibernicum, 69.