Professor Elizabeth FitzPatrick (PhD TCD 1998) is a historical landscape archaeologist who works independently as an academic researcher and writer. She held a personal chair in archaeology at National University of Ireland Galway (2013-21), and was archaeological editor of Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature, from 2007-15.  

Her research, which intersects archaeology, place-history and place-lore, is about recomposing historical landscapes through investigation of lived human practices at monuments and natural places. The focus of her work in this field is medieval and early postmedieval Ireland, with reference to Scotland. She has pioneered cross-disciplinary research on the concept of borders in historical polities, publishing on border landscapes of Irish kingdoms and lordships, landscapes of pedigree and power, places of political assemblies, the border estates and built heritage of literati who served ruling families, and the territorial context of hunting grounds and sites of conflict. Her current research concerns the landscape thinking and human practices associated with the origins and life-courses of  hill-centred borderscapes in historic territories. Her most recent publication in that field is 2023 Landscapes of the learned: placing Gaelic literati in Irish lordships 1300ꟷ1600. Medieval History and Archaeology. Oxford University Press (Pp. 353).