Professor Nicholas Canny FBA
History, especially the History of Early Modern Ireland, Britain and Europe and Atlantic History
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2005
- Subjects
- History
- Sections
- Early Modern History to 1850
Current post
Emeritus Professor of History, National University of Ireland, Galway
Past appointments
Scientific Council, European Research Council
2012 - 2015
National University of Ireland Emeritus Professor of History
2009 -
Royal Irish Academy President
2008 - 2011
National University of Ireland Professor of History
1979 - 2009
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Mr Robin Briggs FBA
The social, religious and political history of early modern Europe, especially France; the French Catholic Church and the history of witchcraft
Professor Annette Gordon-Reed FBA
The history of the American Revolution and the Early American Republic, 18th and 19th centuries; slavery In North America, 17th-19th centuries; Thomas Jefferson and the Age of Jefferson
