Jane Ohlmeyer, MRIA, FTCD, FRHistS, is Erasmus Smith Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin, where she served as 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 is a passionate teacher and has held appointments and fellowships at institutions in Brazil, England, France, India, Scotland, South Africa, and the US. She chaired the Irish Research Council (2015-21) and has served on numerous editorial and other boards. She is the author or editor of numerous articles and 11 books. She is currently working on a 4-part documentary called 'From that Small Island: the story of the Irish' which will be broadcast in March 2024.
In Making Empire, Jane Ohlmeyer assesses how imperial processes shaped developments in early-modern Ireland, and how Irish people-Catholic and Protestant-contributed to the formation of global empires. This lively, insightful and challenging narrative derives its authority from Ohlmeyer's archival research and her judicious appraisal of academic and literary productions. * Nicholas Canny, author of Imagining Ireland's Pasts (Oxford, 2021) and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World, 1450-1850 (2011). * Jane Ohlmeyer has provided a masterful and sweeping overview of Ireland's role in the British empire. Displaying a huge breadth of original research, she offers a new story of early modern Ireland's contributions to the global world order, one that will shift our view of empire and help us understand how we live with its legacies today. * Sarah Covington, Professor of History at CUNY and author of The Devil from Over the Sea * A landmark new book ... Ohlmeyer is one of the most influential Irish historians of this century. * Chrisopher Kissane, Irish Times * Jane Ohlmeyer sheds fascinating light on Ireland's role in what became the British Empire. * Kim Bielenberg, Irish Independent *