Nicholas Canny

Nicholas Canny held an Established Chair in History 1979-2009; was founding Director of the Moore Institute 2000-2011; and was Vice President for Research 2005-8 all at the National University of Ireland, Galway. An expert on early modern history broadly defined, he edited the first volume of The Oxford History of the British Empire (1998) and, with Philip D. Morgan, The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World, c.1450-c.1850 (2011). His major book is Making Ireland British, 1580-1650 (Oxford, 2001). He is putting the finishing touches to a major study Imagining Ireland’s Pasts: Early Modern Ireland through the Centuries to be published in 2021 by Oxford University Press. He is a Fellow of the British Academy (2005), a Member of the Royal Irish Academy (1981), of Academia Europaea (1995), of the American Philosophical Society (2007) and of Real Academia de la Historia (Madrid) (2011). He served as President of the Royal Irish Academy, 2008-11, and was Ireland’s first and only Member so far of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council.