Nicholas Canny#

• Professor of History, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change at National University of Ireland, Galway (formerly University College, Galway)
• 1982 - 1985 Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University College, Galway, and again served in a temporary capacity for the Spring Term of 1994
• 1972 - 1979 Assistant and then Lecturer in History University College, Galway

• 17th century Irish and British history
• Early Modern history
• Colonial American history

• 1976 awarded the Irish Historical Research prize of the National University of Ireland for The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland
• 1979 fellow of the Royal Historical Society
• 1979-80 member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and holder of the Herodotus fellowship in the School of Historical Studies
• 1981 elected Member of the Royal Irish Academy
• April 1985 delivered the Atlantic Lectures at the Johns Hopkins University
• 1986-7 :Fellow of the National Humanities Center, North Carolina
• 1990-94, and 1996-9: served on the Council of the Royal Irish Academy, and as Vice- President of the Academy for 1991 and 1999
• 1994 invited to edit the first volume of a five volume Oxford History of the British Empire
• 1995 first Distinguished Visiting Professor in Irish Studies, January- March 1995, at Glucksman Ireland House, New York University
• 1995 elected as Member of the Academia Europaea
• 1998: first Jefferson Smurfit Corporation Distinguished Lecturer in Irish Studies at the University of Missouri, St Louis
• 2001-2 Fellow in Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study
• 2002 Delivered, by invitation, the Commonwealth Fund Lecture for 2002 at University College, London
• 2003 Awarded the Irish Historical Research prize of the National University of Ireland for Making Ireland British

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