Jane Ohlmeyer, Briona Nic Dhiarmada

From That Small Island

The Story of the Irish

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Produktbeschreibung

Who are the Irish? Where did they come from? Where did, and do, they go? 6 million people live on the island of Ireland, but 80 million people worldwide say they are Irish. What does this mean? From That Small Island is a global, ambitious retelling of Irish history exploring how Ireland has shaped and been shaped by world history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: Juni 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780198900542
• ISBN-10: 0198900546
• Artikelnr.: 70206639

Autorenporträt

Jane Ohlmeyer, Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History (1762), Trinity College, Dublin, Briona Nic Dhiarmada, O'Donnell Professor Ermerita of Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame Bríona Nic Dhiarmada is the Thomas J and Kathleen O'Donnell Professor Emerita of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame. A writer, academic, and filmmaker, Nic Dhiarmada was educated in Trinity College and UCD. She lectured at UCD and worked in television before returning to academia in 2006. She taught at the University of Limerick, the University of Missouri, and held a Senior Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame before joining the fulltime faculty as a tenured endowed professor. Nic Dhiarmada has written numerous screenplays and produced and directed award-winning documentaries including writing and producing multi-award-winning documentary series 1916: The Irish Rebellion narrated by Liam Neeson for RTE, PBS, and BBC. Her companion book to the series won the Foreward Prize for History. She is writer and producer of a four-part series for RTE and international broadcast: From that Small Island: The Story of the Irish. Jane Ohlmeyer is Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History (1762) at Trinity College Dublin, where she was Trinity's first Vice-President for Global Relations (2011--14). She was a driving force behind the 1641 Depositions Project and the development of the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute which she directed (2015--20). She has held appointments and fellowships across the globe, and chaired the Irish Research Council (2015--21). She was the PI for 'Shape-ID', 'Shaping Interdisciplinary Practices in Europe', and in 2023 received an Advanced ERC for VOICES, a project on the lived experiences of women in early modern Ireland. She is the author or editor of numerous articles and twelve books. Ohlmeyer's book Making Ireland: Ireland, Imperialism, and the Early Modern World, which she gave as the Ford Lectures in Oxford (2021) was published in 2023. In 2023, she was awarded the Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal in the Humanities.