Dr Angela Byrne is a Donegal native and a historian of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She works at the Dictionary of Irish Biography and was previously editorial assistant with the Irish Historic Towns Atlas. A graduate of NUI Maynooth (Ph.D., 2009), she has held research and lecturing positions at the universities of Toronto, Greenwich, Ulster and Maynooth, and at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum. She has published widely and curated exhibitions on Donegal local history, the history of travel and exploration, women’s history, and the Irish diaspora. She has held research fellowships across Europe and North America and has presented her research to audiences worldwide. Her books include Anarchy and Authority: Irish Encounters with Romanov Russia (Lilliput Press, 2024), John (Fiott) Lee in Ireland, England and Wales, 1806–7 (Routledge, 2018) and Geographies of the Romantic North (Palgrave, 2013), and she co-edited All Strangers Here: 100 Years of Personal Writing from the Irish Foreign Service (Arlen House, 2021). She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a former NUI Travelling Scholar and former Marie Curie Co-Fund postdoctoral fellow.