Robin Frame

Robin Frame has published widely on the politics and society of later medieval Ireland and their insular context.  He is the author of English Lordship in Ireland 1318–1361 (Oxford, 1982), The Political Development of the British Isles 1100–1400 (revised edition, Oxford, 1995), and Colonial Ireland 1169–1369 (2nd edition, Dublin, 2012).  Most of his early articles and essays are available in his Ireland and Britain 1170–1450 (London, 1998). 

A native of Belfast, and former Scholar of TCD, where he was a pupil of James Lydon and Jocelyn Otway-Ruthven, his association with the College goes back more than fifty years.  He was a visiting professor at Trinity in 2004–5.  In 2012 he delivered a public lecture to mark the launching of CIRCLE, and he has given papers at the first two Trinity Medieval Ireland Symposia, in 2013 and 2015.  Robin Frame is Professor Emeritus of History at Durham University and an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy.

Books: authored

• Colonial Ireland, 1169-1369, 2nd edition, Dublin: Four Courts, 2012.
• Ireland and Britain, 1170-1450, London: Hambledon, 1998.
• The Political Development of the British Isles, 1100-1400, Oxford: Clarendon, 1990.
• English Lordship in Ireland, 1318-1361, Oxford: OUP, 1982.

Essays in edited volumes

• 2013. ‘A register of lost deeds concerning the earldom of Ulster, c.1230–1376’, in Duffy, Seán (ed.), Princes, Prelates and Poets: Essays in Honour of Katharine Simms, Dublin: Four Courts, pp. 85–106
• 2013. ‘Ireland after 1169: barriers to acculturation on an “English” edge’, in Stringer, K.J. & Jotischky, Andrew (eds.), Norman Expansion: Contrasts, Connections and Continuities, Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 115-41.
• 2013. ‘Rediscovering medieval Ireland: Irish chancery rolls and the historian’, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 113, pp. 193–217
• 2011. ‘Lordship beyond the Pale: Munster in the later Middle Ages’, in Stalley,Roger (ed.), Medieval Art and Architecture in Limerick and South-West Ireland: British Archaeological Association Transactions, Leeds: Maley, pp. 5–18
• 2008. ‘Historians, aristocrats and Plantagenet Ireland, 1200–1360’, in Given-Wilson,Chris, Kettle, Ann & Scales, Len (eds.), War, Government and Aristocracy in the British Isles: Essays in Honour of Michael Prestwich, Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, pp. 131–47
• 2007. 'Lordship and liberties in Ireland and Wales, c1170-c1360', in H. Pryce & J. Watts (eds.), Power and Identity in the Later Middle Ages: Essays in Memory of Rees Davies, Oxford University Press, pp. 125-138
• 2006. 'The Wider World', in Horrox, Rosemary. & Ormrod, W. Mark. (eds.), A Social History of England 1200-1500, Cambridge University Press, pp. 435-453
• 2005. 'Exporting state and nation: being English in medieval Ireland', in L. Scales & O. Zimmer (eds.), Power and the Nation in European History, Cambridge University Press, pp. 143-165
• 2003. 'Kingdoms and dominions at peace and war', in Ralph Griffiths (ed.), The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, Oxford University Press, pp. 149-180
• 2001. 'Conquest and settlement', in Barbara Harvey (ed.), The Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: 1066-c.1280, Oxford University Press, pp. 31-66
• 2000. ''Ireland'', in Jones, Michael (ed.), New Cambridge Medieval History, vi. The Fourteenth Century, Cambridge: CUP, pp. 375–87, 967–70
• 1998. ‘Thomas Rokeby, sheriff of Yorkshire, the custodian of David II’, in Rollason, David & Prestwich, Michael (eds.), The Battle of Neville’s Cross, 1346–1996, Stamford: Shaun Tyas, pp. 50–56
• 1996. ‘The defence of the English lordship, 1250–1450'', in Bartlett, Thomas & Jeffery, Keith (eds.), A Military History of Ireland, Cambridge: CUP, pp. 76–98, 468–70
• 1995. 'Two Kings in Leinster: The Crown and the Mic Mhurchadha in the Fourteenth Century', in Barry, T. B., Frame, Robin. & Simms, Katharine. (eds.), Colony and Frontier in Medieval Ireland: Essays presented to J.F. Lydon, London: Hambledon, pp. 155–75