John Bradley (historian)
John Bradley was a historian and archaeologist at NUI Maynooth. He grew up in Kilkenny and published many papers about his hometown.
He worked with Professor George Eogan at the archaeological excavations at Knowth.
He left a large corpus of works which he had either written or edited and was very committed to publishing. He has been called "the first and foremost Irish medieval archaeologist, urban historian, raconteur, font of knowledge on literature, film, chess, opera and so many other subjects. A Kilkenny man par excellence, and a great loss to archaeology and life".
The Kilkenny Archaeological Society of which he was a member holds an annual conference in his memory.
He was also an avid chess player and member of the Kilkenny Chess Club since 1972.
Works
Papers
- Bradley, John The precinct of St John's Priory, Kilkenny, at the close of the Middle Ages, in Pertitia, 317-345
- Bradley, J. The purpose of the Pale: a view from Kilkenny, in Michael Potterton and Thomas Herron, Dublin and the Pale in the Renaissance, c.1540-1660. Dublin, Four Courts
- Bradley, J. Waterford: patronage and position, Irish Arts Review, 28 : 3; 99-102
- Bradley, J. With Cóilín Ó Drisceoil, Richard Jennings, Leah McCullough and John Healy. The Kilkenny Archaeological Project, Old Kilkenny Review 61, pp 7-19
- Bradley, J.: Introduction, in John Bradley & Michael O'Dwyer Kilkenny through the centuries: chapters in the history of an Irish city. Kilkenny Borough Council, pp x-xii
- Bradley, John: Anglo-Norman Kilkenny, in John Bradley & Michael O'Dwyer Kilkenny through the centuries: chapters in the history of an Irish city. Kilkenny Borough Council pp 24-45
- Bradley, J. From frontier town to Renaissance city: Kilkenny 1500-1700, in John Bradley & Michael O'Dwyer,, Kilkenny through the centuries: chapters in the history of an Irish city, Kilkenny Borough Council, pp 96-119
- Bradley, J. Canice and Kilkenny, in John Bradley & Michael O'Dwyer Kilkenny through the centuries: chapters in the history of an Irish city. Kilkenny Borough Council, pp 1-23
- Bradley, J. With Alan J. Fletcher and Anngret Simms, Laudatio, in John Bradley, Alan J Fletcher, & Anngret Simms Dublin in the medieval world: studies in honour of Howard B Clarke. Dublin Four Courts
- Bradley, J. Foreword, in Michael Potterton and Matthew Seaver Uncovering medieval Trim: archaeological excavations in and around Trim, Co. Meath. Dublin, Four Courts. pp 19-22 .
- Bradley, J. Archaeology in Ireland’s journals, 2008 Archaeology Ireland 23 : 1,.
- Bradley, J. Dublin in the year 1000, in Máire Kennedy and Alastair Smeaton, The Sir John T. Gilbert commemorative lectures 1998-2007. Dublin City Public Libraries, pp 45-56
- Bradley, J. With Cóilín Ó Drisceoil, Richard Jennings, John Healy and Leah McCullough. Can Humpty Dumpty be put back together again? The Kilkenny Archaeological Project, Archaeology Ireland 23.
- Bradley, J. A lease of 1573 relating to the Corpus Christi plays in Kilkenny, Old Kilkenny Review 60; 54-69
- Bradley, J. With Declan Murphy, Cóilín Ó Drisceoil and Máire Downey, Kilkenny city’s M3, in Archaeology Ireland, 22 : 3; 14-16,
- Bradley, J. Kilkenny, past and present, Irish Arts Review 25 : 2; 108-13
- Bradley, J. Towards a definition of the Irish monastic town in Catherine Karkov and Helen Damico Aedificia Nova: studies in honor of Rosemary Cramp. Medieval Academy of America, Kalamazoo, MI, pp 325-60
- Bradley, J. Sir Henry Sidney’s bridge at Athlone 1566-7, in Thomas Herron and Michael Potterton, Ireland in the Renaissance, c.1540-1660. Four Courts Press, Dublin. pp 173-94
- Bradley, J. Archaeology in Ireland’s journals 2007, Archaeology Ireland 21 : 4; pp. 37-41.
- Bradley, J. Alice Kyteler, in R. M. Golden, Encyclopedia of witchcraft, the western tradition, vol. iii, pp 613-15
- Bradley, J. The town wall of Kilkenny revisited - a review article Old Kilkenny Review 58; pp 185-95
- Bradley, J. The creation of The Parade: Ormond’s deal with Kilkenny Corporation, 1677 Old Kilkenny Review 58; pp 77-116
- Bradley, J. Archaeology in Ireland’s journals, 2006, Archaeology Ireland 20 : 4; pp 37-41,
- Bradley, J. The decline and fall of Gaelic Leinster - a review article Old Kilkenny Review 57; pp 118-24
- Bradley, J. The pre-Reformation priors of St John’s, Kilkenny, Old Kilkenny Review 57; pp 62-74
- Bradley, J. Opposing systems: institutional continuity as an agent of social change, in Tom Condit and Christiaan Corlett Above and beyond, papers in memory of Leo Swan. Wordwell, Bray. pp 409-14
- Bradley, J. Kilkenny: Irish historic towns atlas supplement to History Ireland, 6 pp.
- Bradley, J. Entries on: ‘Bridges’, ‘Carolingian’, ‘Kildare’, ‘Kilkenny’, Mills and milling’, ‘Tara’, ‘Trim’, ‘Villages’, ‘Walled towns’, in Sean Duffy Medieval Ireland: an encyclopedia. Routledge, London.
- Bradley, J. Archaeology in Ireland’s journals, Archaeology Ireland 19 : 4;
- Bradley, J. Death, art and burial: St Canice’s cathedral Kilkenny in the sixteenth century in Colum P Hourihane Irish art historical studies in honour of Peter Harbison. Four Courts, Dublin. pp 210-218
- Bradley, J. The role of the Irish Historic Towns Atlas as a source for urban history, in Howard Clarke, Jacinta Prunty and Mark Hennessy Surveying Ireland’s past, multidisciplinary essays in honour of Anngret Simms. Geography Publications. pp 727-746
- Bradley, J. and Märit Gaimster Medieval Britain and Ireland in 2003 in Medieval Archaeology 48; pp 229-350
- Bradley, J. Ireland’s archaeology journals, Archaeology Ireland 18 : 4; pp 46-48
- Bradley, J. With Märit Gaimster, Medieval Britain and Ireland in 2002, in Medieval Archaeology 47 pp 199-339
- Bradley, J. Ireland’s archaeology journals, Archaeology Ireland 17 : 4; pp 36-7
- Bradley, J. and Ben Murtagh, Brady's castle, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny: a 14th-century fortified town house, in The medieval castle in Ireland and Wales, essays in honour of Jeremy Knight. J. R. Kenyon and Kieran O'Conor. Four Courts, Dublin pp 194-216
- Bradley, J. Medieval towns, in Brian Lalor The encyclopaedia of Ireland
- Bradley, J. Urban sovereigns and territorial sovereigns: the castle and town of Kilkenny 1200-1500, in Guido Helmig, Barbara Scholkmann and Matthias Untermann Medieval Europe, centre, region, periphery: proceedings of 3rd international conference of medieval and later archaeology, Basel 10-15 September 2002 pp 464-7.
- Bradley, J. The rural house in medieval Ireland in Ruralia IV: the rural house from the migration period to the oldest still standing buildings. Jan Klápšte Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Prague pp 211-215
- Bradley, J. From frontier town to renaissance city: Kilkenny 1500-1700, Proceedings of the British Academy, cviii, pp 29-51; also published separately as Peter Borsay and Lindsay Proudfoot Small towns in early modern Britain and Ireland, pp 29-51. British Academy, London
- Bradley, J. With Märit Gaimster, Helen Geake and T. B. James, Medieval Britain and Ireland in 2001, Medieval Archaeology xlvi pp 125-264.
- Bradley, J. A late Mesolithic settlement in eastern Ireland, in Recent developments in wetland archaeological research Barry Raftery and Joyce Hickey. Dublin pp 299-306
- Bradley, J. Archaeology, topography and building fabric: the cathedral and town of medieval Kildare, Journal of the Kildare Archaeological & Historical Society, 19 : 1; pp 27-47 ; reprinted in Raymond Gillespie, St Brigid’s Cathedral, Kildare, a history. pp 27-47.
- Bradley, J. With Märit Gaimster, Medieval Britain and Ireland in 2000, Medieval Archaeology xlv, pp 233-379
- Bradley, J. Topographical development of Kilkenny, in Kilkenny, Irish Historic Towns Atlas no.10 John Bradley, Royal Irish Academy pp 1-9,
- Bradley, J. Archaeological excavations at Moynagh Lough, County Meath. Maynooth University Record pp 31-37
- Bradley, J. Kilkenny: the medieval town in the modern city, in John Bradley, Diarmuid Healy and Anne Murphy, Themes in Kilkenny’s history: the NUI Maynooth and Radio Kilkenny lectures, pp 23-36
- Bradley, J. Rural boroughs in medieval Ireland: nucleated or dispersed settlements? in Jan Klapste, Ruralia III. Památky archeologické—Supplementum 14, Institute of Archaeology, Prague, pp 288-93
- Bradley, J. With Märit Gaimster, Medieval Britain and Ireland in 1999, Medieval Archaeology xliv pp 235-354
- Bradley, J. Archaeology, topography and building fabric: the cathedral and town of medieval Kildare, Journal of the Kildare Archaelogical and Historical Society xix pp 27-47
- Bradley, J. Urbanization in early medieval Ireland, in Spaces of the living and the dead: an archaeological dialogue C. E. Karkov, K. M. Wickham-Crowley and B. K. Young. Oxford, Oxbow Books. pp 133-147
- Bradley, J. Early urban development in County Laois, in Laois history and society P. G. Lane and William Nolan, Dublin pp 257-282
- Bradley, J. Excavations at Moynagh Lough, Co. Meath 1997-98 , Ríocht na Midhe x : 1; pp 1-17
- Bradley, J. Stirring the pot: Spenser, the View and earthen Ware, Spenser Newsletter 30 : 2;, pp 29-30.
- Bradley, J. With Märit Gaimster and Cathy Haith, Medieval Britain and Ireland in 1998, Medieval Archaeology xliii, pp 226-302
- Bradley, J. The medieval boroughs of Dublin, in Conleth Manning Dublin and beyond the Pale: studies in honour of Patrick Healy. Wordwell, Bray pp 129-144
- Bradley, J. 'Carrickfergus’, ‘Fingal’, ‘Longphort’, ‘Urbanization’, ‘Vikings’, ‘Walled towns’, ‘Wood Quay’: entries in S. J. Connolly, The Oxford companion to Irish history. Oxford University Press.
- Bradley, J. With Michael Potterton, Directory of information on archaeology in the Irish Parliament, British and Irish archaeological bibliography 2 pp. 218-21.
- Bradley, J. With Märit Gaimster, Cathy Haith and T. B. Jones, Medieval Britain and Ireland in 1997, Medieval Archaeology xlii, pp. 107-90.
- Bradley, J. The monastic town of Clonmacnoise in Clonmacnoise studies 1: seminar papers 1994 H. A. King Duchas, Bray pp 42-55
- Bradley, J. Brú na Bóinne c.500-c.1600 AD in Brú na Bóinne, supplement to Archaeology Ireland xi : 3; pp. 32-33
- Bradley, J. Archaeological excavations at Moynagh Lough, Co. Meath, 1995-96 , Ríocht na Midhe ix : 3, pp 50-61
- Bradley, J. The tomb of Anastatia Tobyn at St Patrick's Churchyard, Kilkenny in John Kirwan Kilkenny: studies in honour of Margaret M Phelan. Kilkenny Archaeological Society, pp 21-7.
- Bradley, J. Living at the water's edge: Moynagh Lough in the Bronze Age, in Archaeology Ireland, 10 : 1; pp 24-26,
- Bradley, J. Kilkenny: the faire citie, in Howard B. Clarke Irish cities. Thomas Davis Lectures, Mercier Press in association with Radio Telefís Eireann, Cork, pp 150-62
- Bradley, J. Excavations at Moynagh Lough 1988-1994 , Ríocht na Midhe ix : 1; pp 158-69,
- Bradley, J. Scaninavian rural settlement in Ireland, in Archaeology Ireland, 9 : 3; pp 10-12
- Bradley, J. Tralee, in John H. Andrews and Anngret Simms More Irish country towns. Thomas Davis Lectures, Mercier Press, pp 169-78
- Bradley, J. Killaloe: a pre-Norman borough? Peritia viii, pp 170-9.
- Bradley, J. The archaeology and history of St Patrick - a review article, North Munster Antiquarian Journal xxxv pp 29-44
- Bradley, J. Moynagh Lough: an insular workshop of the second quarter of the eighth century, in R. Michael Spearman and John Higgitt The age of migrating ideas: early medieval art in northern Britain and Ireland. National Museums of Scotland & Sutton, pp 74-81
- Bradley, J. With A. Halpin, The topographical development of Scandinavian and Anglo-Norman Cork, in Patrick O’Flanagan and Cornelius Buttimer Cork: history and society. Geography Publications, Dublin. pp 15-44
- Bradley, J. With A. Halpin, The topographical development of Scandinavian and Anglo-Norman Waterford in W. Nolan and T. P. Power Waterford: history and society. Geography Publications, Dublin. pp 105-129.
- Bradley, J. The topographical development of Scandinavian Dublin, in F. H. A. Aalen and K. Whelan Dublin city and county: from prehistory to the present: studies in honour of J.H. Andrews. Geography Publications, Dublin. pp 43-56
- Bradley, J. Archaeology and development in Ireland’s medieval cities and towns, in John Feehan Environment and development in Ireland. Environmental Institute, University College Dublin, pp 81-6.
- Bradley, J and Heather King, Archaeological trial excavations in Kilkenny, Old Kilkenny Review 4 : 4; 973-987,
- Bradley, J. Excavations at Moynagh Lough, Co. Meath, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland cxxi, pp 5-26,
- Bradley, J. Excavations at Moynagh Lough, Co. Meath 1985 and 1987 , Ríocht na Midhe viii : 3; pp 21-35,
- Bradley, J. With H. A. King, ‘Archaeological trial excavations at Bunratty, Co. Clare, North Munster Antiquarian Journal xxxiii, pp 16-21,