{{short description|Historian}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=January 2022}} '''Jane Ohlmeyer''', {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|MRIA}}, is a historian and academic, specialising in early modern Irish and British history. She is the Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History (1762) at Trinity College Dublin<ref name="tcd.ie">{{cite web|url=https://www.tcd.ie/history/staff/ohlmeyej.php|title=Professor Jane Ohlmeyer - Department of History - Trinity College Dublin|website=www.tcd.ie}}</ref> and Chair of the Irish Research Council, which funds frontier research across all disciplines.<ref>{{cite web|title=14 September, 2015- Minister English appoints Professor Jane Ohlmeyer as Chair of the Irish Research Council|url=https://www.education.ie/en/Press-Events/Press-Releases/2015-Press-Releases/PR-%202015-%2009-%2014.html|access-date=2020-11-21|website=Department of Education and Skills|language=en}}</ref>
Ohlmeyer was the founding Head of the School of Histories and Humanities at Trinity College Dublin, Trinity's first vice-president for Global Relations (2011–14), and Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute (2015–20).<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite web|date=2020|title=Professor Jane Ohlmeyer Erasmus Smith's Chair of Modern History, History|url=https://www.tcd.ie/research/profiles/?profile=ohlmeyej}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=2016|title=In Focus: Professor Jane Ohlmeyer on How to Get to the Top of your Research Career|url=https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/media/news/articles/2016-10-14janeohlmeyer_qa.php}}</ref>
Ohlmeyer has been the Principal Investigator (PI) or co-PI for 25 research and research infrastructure projects with awards totalling c. €22 million from national, European and international funders.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
In addition to historical research, Ohlmeyer regularly speaks on topics that relate more generally to the importance of the arts and humanities,<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=O'Brien|first=Carl|title=Analysis: What's the point of an arts degree?|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/analysis-what-s-the-point-of-an-arts-degree-1.3014518|access-date=2020-11-21|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite news|last=Ohlmeyer|first=Jane|title=The Stem obsession does a disservice to arts and humanities|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/the-stem-obsession-does-a-disservice-to-arts-and-humanities-1.2548342|access-date=2020-11-21|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite news|last=O'Brien|first=Carl|title=Are arts degrees past their sell-by date?|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/are-arts-degrees-past-their-sell-by-date-1.3360465|access-date=2020-11-21|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en}}</ref> the value of inter- and trans-disciplinarity,<ref name=":3">{{cite web|date=2016|title=Interdisciplinarity for Impact|website=YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix2kFb1Kado}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{cite web|title=European Union Research & Innovation Days, Brussels, 24-26 September 2019: "Me and My Society – Integration of Social Sciences and Humanities" – SHAPE-ID: Shaping Interdisciplinary Practices in Europe|date=30 September 2019 |url=https://www.shapeid.eu/european-union-research-innovation-days-brussels-24-26-september-2019-me-and-my-society-integration-of-social-sciences-and-humanities/|access-date=2020-11-21|language=en-US}}</ref> educational policy,<ref name=":5">{{Cite news|last=McGuire|first=Peter|title=How to future-proof your child|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/how-to-future-proof-your-child-1.3612827|access-date=2020-11-21|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en}}</ref> and digital humanities.<ref name=":6">{{cite web|title=Jane Ohlmeyer presents a case of successful interdisciplinary research in the digital humanities — en|url=http://www.iea.usp.br/en/news/jane-ohlmeyer-presents-case-of-successful-interdisciplinary-research-in-the-digital-humanities|access-date=2020-11-21|website=www.iea.usp.br}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{cite web|date=2016|title=Trinity Centre for Digital Humanities|website=YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuLmqyHAemc}}</ref><ref name=":8">{{cite web|last=Douglas|first=Blaise|title=Digital Humanities: an Historical Perspective Jane Ohlmeyer Trinity College Dublin|url=https://slideplayer.com/slide/6066458/|access-date=2020-11-21|website=slideplayer.com}}</ref> She has commented on the barriers facing women in the university sector<ref>{{cite web|title=It's the don of a new age|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12162735.its-the-don-of-a-new-age/|access-date=2020-11-21|website=HeraldScotland|date=13 December 2000 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":9">{{Cite news|last=O'Brien|first=Carl|title=Mediocre men outperform outstanding women|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/mediocre-men-outperform-outstanding-women-1.3160597|access-date=2020-11-21|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":10">{{cite web|title=Irish Research Council welcomes establishment of gender equality task force for higher education sector|url=http://research.ie/2017/11/06/irish-research-council-welcomes-establishment-of-gender-equality-task-force-for-higher-education-sector/|access-date=2020-11-21|website=Irish Research Council|language=en}}</ref> and launched a free Democracy Curriculum in 2020.<ref name=":11">{{Cite news|title=Democracy curriculum|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/democracy-curriculum-1.4221302|access-date=2020-11-21|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en}}</ref> She is a committed advocate of the public humanities and policy engagement and is a notable public commentator on contemporary issues, including Brexit.<ref name=":12">{{Cite news|last=Ohlmeyer|first=Jane|title=Brexit presents major opportunities for researchers – but are we ready to grasp them?|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/brexit-presents-major-opportunities-for-researchers-but-are-we-ready-to-grasp-them-1.2810244|access-date=2020-11-21|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":13">{{cite web|date=2018-11-01|title=Trinity voices Brexit fears with Financial Times open letter|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30882402.html|access-date=2020-11-21|website=Irish Examiner|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":14">{{cite web|date=2017-03-21|title=NI students face huge rise in fees for Republic courses|website=RTÉ.ie |url=https://www.rte.ie/news/brexit/2017/0321/861413-brexit-higher-education/|language=en}}</ref>
In 2021, Ohlmeyer delivered the Ford Lectures on 'Ireland, Empire and the Early Modern World' at the University of Oxford.<ref>{{cite web|title=Global Thinking on Arts and Humanities: A Conversation with Sara Guyer and Jane Ohlmeyer {{!}} Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes|url=https://chcinetwork.org/ideas/global-thinking-on-arts-and-humanities-a-conversation-with-sara-guyer-and-jane-ohlmeyer|access-date=2020-11-21|website=chcinetwork.org|language=en}}</ref> She was the eleventh woman to deliver the prestigious lectures since they were founded in 1896. Ohlmeyer was the first person from a university in Ireland to since F.S.L Lyons in 1977. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this was the first time the lectures were delivered online. The lectures are now available on the RTÉ website.<ref>{{cite web|last=Ohlmeyer|first=Jane|date=2021-03-04|title=Ireland, Empire, and the Early Modern World: watch the lectures|website=RTÉ.ie |url=https://www.rte.ie/history/2021/0304/1201023-ireland-empire-and-the-early-modern-world-watch-the-lectures/|language=en}}</ref>
== Early life and education == Ohlmeyer was born in Zambia to a Northern Irish mother and a South African father, moving to Belfast in 1969.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-womens-podcast/ep-467-professor-jane-ohlmeyer-NBzarGK2soi/|title=Ep 467 Professor Jane Ohlmeyer - The Women's Podcast|website=Listen Notes|date=19 January 2021 }}</ref> She read history as an undergraduate at the University of St Andrews before going on to complete an MA at the University of Illinois and a PhD at Trinity College Dublin in 1991.<ref>{{cite book |last=Sherlock |first=D.J.M. |date=2006 |title=Trinity College Record Volume 2006 |location=Dublin |publisher=Trinity College Dublin Press |isbn=1-871408-07-5|page=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://trinitynews.ie/2010/11/professor-jane-ohlmeyer-queen-of-the-humanities/ |title=Professor Jane Ohlmeyer: Queen of the Humanities |website=Trinity News |date=2 November 2010}}</ref>
== Career == Ohlmeyer was appointed Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin in 2003. Prior to that appointment, she held posts at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Yale University and, from 1995 to 2003, at the University of Aberdeen.<ref>{{cite web|title=About|url=https://www.janeohlmeyer.ie/about/|access-date=2020-11-21|website=Jane Ohlmeyer|date=19 October 2020 |language=en-US}}</ref> Upon her promotion to Professor in 2000, Ohlmeyer was the first woman to hold a chair in History at the University of Aberdeen, and the first chair of Irish History in Scotland.<ref>{{cite web|title=Double First for Aberdeen Historian|url=https://www.abdn.ac.uk/news/21706/|access-date=2023-07-08|language=en}}</ref>
Ohlmeyer has taught undergraduate and postgraduate students at Trinity College Dublin, at Yale, the University of Aberdeen, New York University and Ashoka University in New Delhi. At Trinity, she has supervised 11 PhD students and mentored eight postdoctoral fellows and nine Marie Skłodowska-Curie Cofund Fellows. She has served as an external examiner for theses in the English and History Faculties at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, New South Wales, Galway, UCD and Maynooth.<ref name="tcd.ie"/>
In 2015 Ohlmeyer was appointed Chair of the Irish Research Council. The Irish Research Council (IRC) awards competitive funding on the basis of research excellence. The council also advises the government on research-related policy issues, as well as lobbying ministers in Dublin and Brussels, and was the first funding agency in Ireland to publish a gender strategy<ref>{{cite web|date=2013–20|title=Irish Research Council Gender Strategy & Action Plan 2013 – 2020 Ensuring excellence and maximising creativity and innovation in Irish Research|url=http://research.ie/assets/uploads/2013/01/irish_research_council_gender_action_plan_2013_-2020.pdf}}</ref> and introduce gender-blind assessment.<ref name=":10"/> The Council introduced the #LoveIrishResearch social media campaign to empower Irish researchers to communicate why their research matters.<ref>{{cite web|title=Communicate the value of research|url=http://research.ie/what-we-do/loveirishresearch/|access-date=2020-11-21|website=Irish Research Council|language=en}}</ref>
From 2015 to 2020 Ohlmeyer was Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute, having previously worked with colleagues to develop the concept and secure funding (2008).<ref>{{cite web|date=2020|title=Celebration Showcase {{!}} 10 years of the Trinity Long Room Hub|website=Facebook|url=https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=612104309629149&ref=watch_permalink}}</ref> The Trinity Long Room Hub advances research excellence in the arts and humanities; fosters innovation in research, including interdisciplinarity, and draws attention to issues of national and international importance through an extensive public humanities initiative.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcd.ie/alumni/inspiring-generations/long-room-hub/|title=Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute - Trinity Development & Alumni - Trinity College Dublin|website=www.tcd.ie}}</ref> In 2020 Ohlmeyer led the institute's 10th-anniversary celebrations.<ref>{{cite web|date=2020|title=Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute: Celebrating 10 Years|url=https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/10-years/}}</ref>
In 2011 Ohlmeyer was appointed Trinity's first Vice President for Global relations, a post she held until 2014.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> Ohlmeyer designed and implemented Trinity's "Global Relations Strategy".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tara.tcd.ie/bitstream/handle/2262/71407/GRS_Update_Web2013.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |access-date=10 March 2024 |title=Global Relations Strategy Update |publisher=Trinity College Dublin |date=2013}}</ref>
Ohlmeyer has held visiting fellowships at the University of Oxford,<ref>{{cite web|date=2020|title=All Souls College Visiting Fellows 2020 - 2021|url=https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/news/visiting-fellows-2020-2021}}</ref> Ashoka University,<ref>{{Cite tweet|title= Teaching a course on 'Empire & after' @yifp here at Ashoka university in Delhi has been an amazing experience. We have spent 2 weeks looking at the shared histories of Ireland & India. Now over to @ProfDarrylJones for some literature ... |number=1169210026801545217|user= janeohlmeyer}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://irc.iba.edu.pk/pdfs/TheYoungIndiaFellowship-YIF-2017-18-Flyer.pdf|title=The Young India Fellowship at Ashoka University}}{{Dead link|date=September 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref> São Paulo University, São Paulo<ref>{{cite web|date=2015|title=Jane Ohlmeyer|url=http://www.iea.usp.br/en/persons/speakers/jane-ohlmeyer}}</ref>''',''' Jawaharlal Nehru University,<ref>{{cite web|last=Edmond|first=Jennifer|date=2015-07-02|title=Jane Ohlmeyer: TCD SPECTRESS Fellow in Delhi|url=https://spectressnetwork.wordpress.com/2015/07/02/jane-ohlmeyer-tcd-spectress-fellow-in-delhi/|access-date=2020-11-21|website=The SPECTRESS Project|language=en}}</ref> University of Cambridge,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/fellows/parnell|title=Parnell Fellows|website=Magdalene College}}</ref> Folger Institute,<ref>{{cite web|title=Jane Ohlmeyer - Folgerpedia|url=https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/Jane_Ohlmeyer|access-date=2020-11-21|website=folgerpedia.folger.edu}}</ref> New York University, École des hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and the Huntington Library.<ref>{{cite web|date=2020|title=Curriculum Vitae|url=https://www.janeohlmeyer.ie/about/}}</ref>
She is member of the Royal Irish Academy,<ref name="Jane Helen Ohlmeyer">{{cite web|date=2015-10-19|title=Jane Helen Ohlmeyer|url=https://www.ria.ie/jane-helen-ohlmeyer|access-date=2020-11-21|website=Royal Irish Academy|language=en|archive-date=25 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180525062445/https://www.ria.ie/jane-helen-ohlmeyer|url-status=dead}}</ref> the Irish Manuscripts Commission<ref>{{cite web|date=8 August 2017|title=Minister Humphreys announces appointments to the Irish Manuscripts Commission|url=https://merrionstreet.ie/en/News-Room/Releases/Minister_Humphreys_announces_appointments_to_the_Irish_Manuscripts_Commission.html}}</ref> and of a number of editorial and advisory boards including the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://chcinetwork.org/assets/misc/PDFs/CHCI-Board-Committees-2020.pdf|title=CHCI Board Committees 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=2019|title=Global Thinking on Arts and Humanities: A Conversation with Sara Guyer and Jane Ohlmeyer|url=https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/media/news/articles/2019-07-01-CHCI-Interview.php}}</ref>
In 2021 she was considered for the role of Provost of the college when the position was being considered for one of three women, including Linda Hogan and Linda Doyle, making it the first time a woman was provost since the founding of the college.<ref>{{cite news |title=Trinity will see a woman in the top job for first time since 1592 |url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/trinity-will-see-a-woman-in-the-top-job-for-first-time-since-1592-39976292.html |work=independent |language=en}}</ref>
== Research == Ohlmeyer is the author or editor of numerous articles and 13 books, including Volume 2 of ''The Cambridge History of Ireland'', published in 2018.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Ferriter|first=Diarmaid|title=The Cambridge History of Ireland: A mammoth, inspiring work|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-cambridge-history-of-ireland-a-mammoth-inspiring-work-1.3505790|access-date=2020-11-21|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Irish history, hot off the press|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/irish-history-hot-off-the-press-1.3480247|access-date=2020-11-21|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en}}</ref> ''The Cambridge History of Ireland'' was launched in Dublin by President Michael D. Higgins,<ref>{{Cite news|last=McGreevy|first=Ronan|title=President voices fears about teaching of history in schools at book launch|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/president-voices-fears-about-teaching-of-history-in-schools-at-book-launch-1.3479586|access-date=2020-11-21|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en}}</ref> in London by former UK Prime Minister John Major<ref>{{cite web|website=Department of Foreign Affairs|title=LCambridge History of Ireland launch 10 May 2018|url=https://www.dfa.ie/irish-embassy/great-britain/news-and-events/latest-news/cambridge-history-of-ireland-launch-10-may-2018.html|access-date=2020-11-21|language=en}}</ref> and in Washington DC by President-elect Joe Biden.<ref>{{cite web|last=Department of Foreign Affairs|title=Blog on the American launch of the Cambridge History of Ireland|url=https://www.dfa.ie/irish-embassy/usa/about-us/ambassador/ambassadors-blog/launch-of-cambridge-history-of-ireland/|access-date=2020-11-21|website= Department of Foreign Affairs |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=O'Donovan|first=Brian|date=2018-09-18|title=Biden says treatment of immigrants in US 'disgraceful'|website=RTÉ.ie |url=https://www.rte.ie/news/us/2018/0918/994450-joe-biden-immigration/|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Lynch |first=Suzanne |title=Joe Biden says immigration key in emergence of modern US|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/joe-biden-says-immigration-key-in-emergence-of-modern-us-1.3632981|access-date=2020-11-21|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en}}</ref>
In 2020 she published an edition of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon's ''A Short View of the State and Condition of the Kingdom of Ireland'' (Oxford, 2020).
In 2023 she published ''Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism and the Early Modern World'', based on James Ford Lectures given at the University of Oxford in 2021.<ref>{{cite web |date=2023-12-23 |title=Making Empire |website=Jane Ohlmeyer |url=https://www.janeohlmeyer.ie/making-empire/ |access-date=2024-02-21}}</ref>
To date, Ohlmeyer has been the Principal Investigator (PI) or co-PI for 25 research and research infrastructure projects, with awards totalling €22 million including:<ref>{{cite web|date=2020|title=Professor Jane Ohlmeyer Erasmus Smith's Chair of Modern History|url=https://www.tcd.ie/history/staff/ohlmeyej.php}}</ref>''' '''
* SHAPE-ID (2018–21), an EU-funded project that aims to improve inter- and trans-disciplinary cooperation between the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS) and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines.<ref>{{cite web|date=4 Dec 2018|title=Trinity awarded €1.5m to build interdisciplinary research toolkit|url=https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/trinity-and-partners-awarded-e1-5-million-to-build-new-interdisciplinary-research-toolkit/}}</ref> * Human+ (2020–25), a ground-breaking project co-funded by the European Commission's Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and undertaken in partnership with the Adapt Centre which places the human at the centre of technology innovation to serve the long-term and collective needs of society.<ref>{{cite web|title=Trinity launches EU-backed fellowship Human+ for technological innovation|url=https://sciencebusiness.net/network-updates/trinity-launches-eu-backed-fellowship-human-technological-innovation|access-date=2020-11-21|website=Science{{!}}Business|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=9 Jun 2020|title=Where technology meets the human being: Trinity launches Human+|url=https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/where-technology-meets-the-human-being-trinity-launches-human/}}</ref> * The Global Humanities Institute on the 'Crises of Democracy' (2017–19), funded by the Mellon Foundation, brought together a consortium of humanities scholars spanning four continents to explore the various threats to democracy through the lens of cultural trauma.<ref>{{cite web|date=9 August 2019|title=International Scholars Ask if Democracy is at Risk|url=https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/media/news/articles/2019-08-08-Democracy-GHI.php}}</ref> * 1641 Deposition Project (2007-10), a flagship technology project which digitised 8,000 witness accounts from the 1641 rebellion, making these controversial documents available online in a fully Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) compliant format. The website was launched in 2010<ref>{{Cite news|date=2010-10-23|title=Bloody history of the 1641 rebellion is published online|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-11605241|access-date=2020-11-21}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Bowcott|first=Owen|date=2010-03-07|title=Witness statements from Irish rebellion and massacres of 1641 go online|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/mar/07/irish-rebellion-archive-online|access-date=2020-11-21|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> by President Mary McAleese and Ian Paisley, Lord Bannside<ref>{{cite web|title=McAleese and Paisley launch transcripts of 1641 horrors|url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/mcaleese-and-paisley-launch-transcripts-of-1641-horrors-26692370.html|access-date=2020-11-21|website=independent|date=23 October 2010 |language=en}}</ref> and a Research Impact Showcase was held to mark the tenth anniversary of the project on 22 October 2020.<ref>{{cite web|date=23 Oct 2020|title=Heritage, History and Memory Celebrating the Legacy of the 1641 Depositions|url=https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/media/news/articles/2020-10-23-1641-Depositions.php}}</ref> Ian Adamson, the once Honorary Historian of the Ulster Unionist party also accompanied Ian paisley and Jane to the symposium.
== Public engagement and advocacy == Ohlmeyer was closely involved in the development and launch of ''History Scotland'', an illustrated and interdisciplinary quarterly magazine that is aimed at members of the general public. She has contributed to a number of television (BBC,<ref>{{Citation|title=Charles I: Downfall of a King (TV Mini-Series 2019) - IMDb|date=9 July 2019|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt10667304/|access-date=2020-11-21}}</ref> RTÉ, TV3,<ref>{{Citation|title=Tales of Irish Castles (TV Series 2014) - IMDb|date=22 June 2014|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5909184/|access-date=2020-11-21}}</ref> Channel 4,<ref>{{cite web|last=Rigby|first=Jennifer|date=2011-05-17|title=Queen's visit to Ireland: 'We are ready now to move on'|url=https://www.channel4.com/news/queens-visit-to-ireland-we-are-ready-now-to-move-on|access-date=2020-11-21|website=Channel 4 News|language=en-GB}}</ref> Channel 5) and radio programmes (BBC Radio 4's ''In Our Time'',<ref>{{cite web|date=7 Nov 2019|title=In Our Time: The Treaty of Limerick|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009ywn|access-date=2020-11-21|website=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref> PBS, Radio Scotland, RTÉ, Newstalk, Near FM<ref>{{cite web|title=Professor Jane Ohlmeyer – Near FM – Listen Again|url=http://nearfm.ie/podcast/?tag=professor-jane-ohlmeyer|access-date=2020-11-21|language=en-US}}</ref>) and is currently the executive producer for a 6-part documentary series, ''From That Small Island: The Story of the Irish''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57f2387e414fb59afd68029e/t/5d8ce0d4e0db8f0aca04e4a8/1569513686932/CC20190001+-+From+That+Small+Island+v10.pdf|title=From that Small Island – The Story of the Irish}}</ref> As Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub, she developed the "Behind the Headlines" discussion series and hosted 25 discussions on pressing and complex issues.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/whats-on/details/behind-the-headlines.php|title=Behind the Headlines - Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute - Trinity College Dublin|website=www.tcd.ie}}</ref>
Ohlmeyer regularly speaks on topics that relate more generally to the importance of the arts and humanities,<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /> the value of inter- and trans-disciplinarity,<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" /> educational policy,<ref name=":5" /> and digital humanities.<ref name=":6" /><ref name=":7" /><ref name=":8" /> She has commented on the barriers facing women in the university sector<ref name=":9" /><ref name=":10" /> and launched a free Democracy Curriculum in 2020.<ref name=":11" /> She is a committed advocate of the public humanities and policy engagement and is a notable public commentator on contemporary issues.<ref name=":12" /><ref name=":13" /><ref name=":14" />
Ohlmeyer is also co-chair of the Royal Irish Academy's Brexit Taskforce, a group of academics from across Ireland assessing the impact that Brexit could have on research and education on the island.<ref>{{cite web|date=2015-12-11|title=RIA Brexit Taskforce|url=https://www.ria.ie/policy-international/working-groups/ria-brexit-taskforce|access-date=2020-11-21|website=Royal Irish Academy|language=en}}{{Dead link|date=September 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Ohlmeyer|first=Jane|title=Ireland must invest in higher education to benefit from Brexit|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/ireland-must-invest-in-higher-education-to-benefit-from-brexit-1.3367306|access-date=2020-11-21|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=2017-06-13|title=Two thirds of Irish academics believe Brexit will have negative impact on higher education|url=http://www.researchandinnovation.ie/two-thirds-irish-academics-believe-brexit-will-negative-impact-higher-education/|access-date=2020-11-21|website=Research & Innovation|language=en-US}}</ref>
== Honours ==
* 2021: The Ford Lectures on 'Ireland, Empire and the early modern world' at the History Faculty, University of Oxford<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/person/3485|title=Professor Jane Ohlmeyer Ford Lecturer and Visiting Fellow, Hilary Term 2021|access-date=21 November 2020|archive-date=13 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201013145945/https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/person/3485|url-status=dead}}</ref> * 2020: Stand up for Research – Research Excellence Award, Trinity College Dublin<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcd.ie/research/researchmatters/awards-2020.php|title=Trinity Research Excellence Awards 2020 - Trinity Research - Trinity College Dublin|website=www.tcd.ie}}</ref> * 2018: Societal Impact – Innovation Award, Trinity College Dublin<ref>{{cite web|date=20 Dec 2018|title=Trinity Innovation Awards 2018 – Celebrating Innovative Research|url=https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/trinity-innovation-awards-2018-celebrating-innovative-research/}}</ref> * 2012-13: A 'Choice Outstanding Academic Title' for ''Making Ireland English'' * 2011: Elected Member of the Royal Irish Academy<ref name="Jane Helen Ohlmeyer"/> * 2015: Elected Fellow of Trinity College Dublin<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcd.ie/Secretary/FellowsScholars/2005/index.php|title=Fellows and Scholars 2005 - Trinity Monday 2005 - Secretary's Office - Trinity College Dublin|website=www.tcd.ie}}</ref> * 1994: ''Civil War and Restoration in the Three Stuart Kingdoms'' American Conference on Irish Studies (ACIS) book prize for History and Social Sciences * 1993: ''Civil War and Restoration in the Three Stuart Kingdoms'' The Whitfield Prize: awarded ''Proxime Accesit'' for the best book on British history published in the United Kingdom<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Report of Council, Session 1993-1994|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3679224|journal=Transactions of the Royal Historical Society|year=1994|volume= 4|issue=1994|pages=281–295|doi=10.1017/S0080440100019812|jstor=3679224|s2cid=251231706 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
==Selected works==
* {{cite book |last1=Ohlmeyer |first1=Jane H. |title=Civil War and Restoration in the Three Stuart Kingdoms: The Career of Randall MacDonnell, Marquis of Antrim, 1609-1683 |date=1993 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0521419789}} * {{cite book |editor1-last=Ohlmeyer |editor1-first=Jane H. |title=Ireland from Independence to Occupation, 1641–1660 |date=1995 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0521434799 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/irelandfromindep0000unse }} * {{cite book |editor1-last=Kenyon |editor1-first=John |editor2-last=Ohlmeyer |editor2-first=Jane |title=The Civil Wars: A Military History of England, Scotland and Ireland, 1638-60 |date=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0198662228}} * {{cite book |editor1-last=Ohlmeyer |editor1-first=Jane |title=Political Thought in Seventeenth-Century Ireland: Kingdom or Colony |date=2000 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0521650830 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/politicalthought00ohlm }} * {{cite book |last1=Ohlmeyer |first1=Jane |title=Making Ireland English: the Irish aristocracy in the seventeenth century |date=2012 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |isbn=978-0300118346}} * {{cite book |editor1-last=Ohlmeyer |editor1-first=Jane |title=The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 2, 1550–1730 |date=2018 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-1107117631}} * Ohlmeyer, Jane, ed. (2020). ''A Short View of the State and Condition of the Kingdom of Ireland.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|9780198791072}}. * {{cite book |last=Ohlmeyer |first=Jane |title=Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism and the Early Modern World |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=2023}}
Ohlmeyer has published 13 academic books (2 monographs and 11 edited or co-edited),<ref>{{cite web|title=Professor Jane Ohlmeyer Erasmus Smith's Chair of Modern History, History|url=https://www.tcd.ie/research/profiles/?profile=ohlmeyej}}</ref> over forty articles<ref>{{cite web|title=Publications|url=https://www.janeohlmeyer.ie/publications/|access-date=2020-11-21|website=Jane Ohlmeyer|date=12 November 2020 |language=en-US}}</ref> and was one of the four co-editors of the Irish Manuscripts Commission The 1641 Depositions in 12 volumes (2014–20).<ref>{{cite web|date=2020-09-01|title=1641 Depositions series|url=https://www.irishmanuscripts.ie/1641-depositions-series/|access-date=2020-11-21|website=Irish Manuscripts|language=en-GB}}</ref>
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