This paper was one of three presented at a special panel chaired by Prof. Brendan Kane (University of Connecticut), 'Ireland and Scotland, 1400-1641: The Stewarts and the World of the Gaedhaltacht'. The other papers were by Dr David Heffernan (UCC) and Simon Egan (UCC), and together highlighted the research currently being conducted into Irish-Scottish connections during the Renaissance period in the School of History at UCC.