We would like to acknowledge the following:
The creation of this site was generously funded by a grant from the Department of Foreign Affairs Reconciliation Fund. Professor Jane Ohlmeyer was the principal investigator for this grant. Dr Eamon Darcy and Dr Danielle O’Donovan collaborated and developed this online resource. Professor Brendan Tangney is the academic director of Bridge 21 at Trinity College Dublin. They promote team-based and individual research through technology-mediated resources that will develop the critical thinking and analytical skills of students, and help them to fulfill their potential.
We wish to acknowledge the Board of Trinity College Dublin for use of the many images that illustrate the videos and pages on this site. The library have kindly also allowed us to reproduce Roger Puttock’s pamphlet An abstract of certain depositions, by vertue of His Majesties commission, taken upon oath, concerning the traiterous intention of the rebels in Ireland, in rejecting the government of His Majestie, in having a king of their own: and who that king should be. With an extract of a letter from Rome, 4. Jan. 1641. Published by His Majesties command. , London : Printed by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most excellent Majestie: And by the Assignes of John Bill, 1642.
We also wish to acknowledge Huntington Library, San Marino, California for their kind permission to reproduce the pamphlet The bloudy persecution of the Protestants in Ireland being the contents of severall letters brought by his Majesties post from Ireland, November the 21. 1641
History Ireland have been extremely generous in allowing us to reproduce many of their articles dealing with the 17th century period. To them and the authors of the articles who gave their permission to use them here, many thanks.
We wish to acknowledge the work of Mrs. Dale Purvis on the original, paper based 1641 Depositions Education Pack. Some of the suggested activities from that pack form part of the lessons shared here.
We would like to thank Leen Tangney (SS History Student TCD) for producing the video on this site.
The team at Devhaus built this excellent and really easy to use website. Special thanks to David Bolger and Stephen Murphy for all their hard work.
Some of the educational ideas espoused on this site stem from the Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) who have worked on a whole documents based curriculum that encourages students to ‘Read Like Historians’. They also produced the website ‘Historical Thinking Matters’, which also informed Dr Ciarán Wallace’s think aloud video.