Nicholas Canny, Herbert Allen and Donald R. Keough Distinguished Visiting Professor, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies
Nicholas Canny is a member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council and professor emeritus of history at the National University of Ireland, Galway, where he served as founding director of the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities, 2000–11, and as vice president for research, 2005–08. He was also president of the Royal Academy from 2008 to 2011. He is a corresponding fellow of the British Academy and a member of the American Philosophical Society.
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, edited The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World, c1450–c1850 (2011). His major book is Making Ireland British, 1580–1650 (Oxford, 2001), for which he was awarded the Irish Historical Research Prize in 2003, an award he had previously won in 1976 for his first book, The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland: A Pattern Established, 1565–76.
This is the inaugural Irish Studies Seminar lecture.