About the 2018 Lecturer

About the 2018 Lecturer

Professor Jane Ohlmeyer

Trinity College Dublin

Jane Ohlmeyer, MRIA, is Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History at Trinity College  Dublin and the Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity’s research institute for advanced study in the Arts and Humanities.  Since September 2015 she has served as Chair of the Irish Research Council, an agency that funds frontier research across 70 disciplines. She is currently a non-executive director of the Sunday Business Post, a member of the Irish Manuscripts Commission, of the National Archives Advisory Council, and of the Royal Irish Academy, where she chairs the Brexit Taskforce. A passionate teacher and an internationally established scholar of early modern Irish history, Professor Ohlmeyer is the author/editor of 11 books, including Making Ireland English. The aristocracy in seventeenth century Ireland (Yale University Press, 2012) and volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Ireland, 1550-1730 (CUP, 2017). Professor Ohlmeyer was the first Vice-President for Global Relations (2011-14) at Trinity.