James Greaney is an Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholar and doctoral student from Galway. He currently studies in Trinity College Dublin, working on a doctoral thesis entitled ‘History and Identity in Restoration Ireland, 1660-91’. His research looks at the how different forms of identity (ie., religious, political, and ethnic identity) are expressed in histories written or published in this period.

He has also, as a teaching assistant, led tutorials on early modern European history, historiography and document analysis, and Irish literary history. His research interests include intellectual and literary history and political and cultural history in early modern Ireland and Europe.