Salvador Ryan

Pontifical University, Saint Patrick's College, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland, Theology, Faculty Member

Salvador Ryan is a native of Moneygall, County Offaly. He studied Nua-Ghaeilge and History at NUI Maynooth and Theology at St Patrick’s College Maynooth and St Patrick’s College, Thurles. He completed his doctoral dissertation on ‘Popular religion in Gaelic Ireland, 1445-1645’ at the Department of History, NUI Maynooth, in 2003, and was based in the department as an IRCHSS Postdoctoral Fellow from 2003-05. From 2005-08 he taught Church History at St Patrick’s College, Thurles, and was employed as Academic Coordinator from 2006-08 before returning to St Patrick’s College, Maynooth as Professor of Ecclesiastical History in 2008. He is Secretary and Reviews Editor of the international periodical, Irish Theological Quarterly, and Treasurer of the Catholic Historical Society of Ireland and of its sources journal, Archivium Hibernicum. In 2013 he was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Journal of Baroque Studies published by the International Institute for Baroque Studies at the University of Malta. In 2014 he was appointed to the Editorial Advisory Board of British Catholic History (Cambridge University Press), and more recently to the International Advisory Board of the online journal Maria,: A Journal of Marian Studies. Since 2004 he has been a member of the European Network on the Instruments of Devotion,

Salvador has edited almost twenty books and three special issues of the online journal Religions, and has published numerous articles and book chapters on aspects of popular religion and ritual from the Middle Ages to the present day. He is also a frequent media contributor, both to newspapers such as the Irish Times and Irish Independent, international publications such as The Tablet and the National Catholic Reporter, and many other periodicals. He has also featured on a number of TV and radio documentaries and some podcasts.

He particularly enjoys writing about aspects of the history of Christianity for a popular readership.

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Salvador Ryan "Domestic Devotion: A History of Visual Piety and Religious Practice in the Family Home" RDS Dublin Wednesday 22 August 2018

This paper on Domestic Devotion was delivered at the World Meet of Families Symposium, RDS Dublin... more

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Salvador Ryan, ‘The Final Rupture? COVID-19 and Popular Religious Practice'

Since March 2020 we have all been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. While there has been endless... more Since March 2020 we have all been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. While there has been endless media coverage of the medical and economic implications of the pandemic, religious issues have seldom been to the fore. Where is God in this pandemic? Can we draw meaning out of the long months of suffering? What can church communities do to survive and even prosper in times of restriction? Finally, what will be the lasting effects on church life?

On 21 January 2021, theologians and philosophers from St Patrick’s College Maynooth, Co. Kildare offered their thought-provoking perspectives on these issues.

This paper asks whether the year 2020 will represent the 'final rupture' in the history of Irish Catholicism.

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Books

The Historian as Detective: Uncovering Irish Pasts. Essays in honour of Raymond Gillespie

The Historian as Detective: Uncovering Irish Pasts. Essays in honour of Raymond Gillespie, 2021

This collection of short essays presents the fruits of painstaking investigations conducted by ov... more This collection of short essays presents the fruits of painstaking investigations conducted by over eighty scholars of history, early Irish, nua-Ghaeilge, archaeology, osteoarchaeology, forensic anthropology, geography and classical studies who have delved into Ireland’s past and pieced together fragments of evidence to uncover the fascinating truth behind an array of curious tales about intriguing characters, events and vestiges of by-gone days. Beginning with the missing martyrs in fourth- and fifth-century Ireland and ending with an overview of how TCD’s exciting ‘Beyond 2022: Ireland’s Virtual Record Treasury’ project is engaged in reassembling the archival collection destroyed in the attack on the Four Courts (1922), this volume features an eclectic set of stories about misfits, mayhem and murder in medieval Irish monasteries; the theft of records from Trim Castle in the 1490s; the reputation of Hugh O’Neill, second Earl of Tyrone; the collapse of the earl of Sussex in the 1560s; the mystery surrounding the death of Archbishop Richard Creagh; Irish Franciscan chicanery at a Roman funeral in 1626; shape-changing at dawn on a May Day in Clare; cannibalism at Knocknamase Castle during the 1641 rebellion; Baptist enchantment and spectral detectives in Cromwellian Ireland; five Baptist Loobys in Cork and Antigua; the Irish smuggling trade in the eighteenth century; the murder of Anne Eustace: an early eighteenth century cause célèbre; the mystery of the Irish bard; Georgian deceptions – the curious case of the conjuror, the boxer and the giant; a possible hermit of Muckross; Theobald Wolfe Tone’s burial at Bodenstown; searching for Ireland’s workhouse Famine emigrants in Canada; a murder in Madrid in 1889; the burning of Moydrum Castle, County Westmeath during the Irish War of Independence; catechetical ignorance and its celebration in Irish folklore; the ghost of Laheen House, County Leitrim; the mystery of a six-foot woman excavated at Drogheda in the early 1990s, and many more.

The chronological span and multidisciplinary nature of the contributions in this volume attest to the breadth of Raymond Gillespie’s curiosity, interests, expertise and influence, which have always transcended conventional boundaries.

Terence Dooley is Professor of History (Maynooth University), Mary Ann Lyons is Professor of History (Maynooth University) and Salvador Ryan is Professor of Ecclesiastical History (Pontifical University, St Patrick’s College Maynooth).

https://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/new-year-folder/the-historian-as-detective/

Invitation to Online Launch of We Remember Maynooth: A College across Four Centuries Tuesday 17 November at 7:30pm GMT

We Remember Maynooth: a College across Four Centuries, 2020

This year Maynooth College celebrates its 225th anniversary and a beautifully-presented volume ca... more This year Maynooth College celebrates its 225th anniversary and a beautifully-presented volume captures a multi-dimensional perspective of an institution that has held a singular place in modern Irish Church history. We Remember Maynooth: A College Across Four Centuries, edited by Salvador Ryan and John-Paul Sheridan is a collection of essays that paints a rounded picture of a unique college, through whose hallowed halls have passed both kings and popes.

From modest beginnings in 1795 as a small seminary of thirty students and ten professors, Maynooth expanded rapidly, becoming a Pontifical University, a constituent college of the National University of Ireland and, at one time, the largest seminary in world. It has educated many thousands of students and led the way in many branches of the arts and sciences. And for its alumni it is also a tapestry of rich memories.

Lest these memories dwindle in the collective consciousness, the authors have complied a selection of pen pictures, personal reminiscences and sketches on aspects of the college's life and history. Contributions range from across the spectrum of religious, artistic, political, and academic endeavour, with essays by Archbishop Eamon Martin, Mary O'Rourke, Frank McGuinness, Susan McKenna-Lawlor and Liam Lawton, among many others.

This splendid book is part history, part folk-history, part aide-mémoire. For some, it will be an introduction to this historic centre of learning, for others it will be an evocation of memories, reminiscences and encounters, some that describe actual events and others that delve between the lines of history offering portraits of characters that passed through the college and the people that journeyed with them.

Salvador Ryan is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at St Patrick's College, Maynooth and has published widely on popular religious culture from the Middle ages to the twentieth century. John-Paul Sheridan is a priest of the Diocese of Ferns. He joined the staff at St Patrick's College Maynooth as Education Programmes Coordinator and currently lectures in Religious Educations and Catechesis, Liturgy and Children and Systematic Theology.

We Remember Maynooth: A College Across Four Centuries, edited by Salvador Ryan and JP Sheridan is published in Ireland and the UK by Messenger Publications. Priced at €50/£40

For more information see: www.messenger.ie/product/we-remember-maynooth-a-college-across-four-centuries/

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