The IHA is run by a governing board of its institutional members, which meets quarterly. The IHA board is responsible for general government and strategic direction including approval of the annual work programme. It is led by an Executive Committee comprising the IHA Chair, Vice-Chair and Coordinator. The Executive Committee addresses day to day operations of the IHA. The IHA coordinator is responsible for delivery of the annual work programme and represents the IHA in all acts of ordinary business, subject to the oversight and approval of the IHA Chair.
Executives
Prof. Sonja Tiernan All-island Coordinator Royal Irish Academy s.tiernan@ria.ie
Prof. Brendan Dooley Chair IHA, 2025-26 University College Cork b.dooley@ucc.ie
Prof. Anna Hickey-Moody Vice Chair IHA, 2025-26 Maynooth University Anna.HickeyMoody@mu.ie
Board Members
Dr Mark McCarthy Senior Lecturer & Programme Chair in Heritage Atlantic Technological University Mark.McCarthy@atu.ie
Dr Ellen Howley Assistant Professor at the School of English Dublin City University ellen.howley@dcu.ie
Dr Rebecca Breen Coordinator of Doctoral Programmes Mary Immaculate College Rebecca.Breen@mic.ul.ie
Dr Simon Egan Lecturer, School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy & Politics Queen's University Belfast s.egan@qub.ac.uk
Prof. Daniel Carey Secretary RIA Royal Irish Academy daniel.carey@universityofgalway.ie
Dr Suzanne Denieffe Head (Waterford) Faculty of Arts and Humanities South East Technological University suzanne.denieffe@setu.ie
Dr Conor McGarrigle Head of Research and Innovation, Faculty of Arts and Humanities Technological University Dublin Conor.Mcgarrigle@TUDublin.ie
Prof. Patrick Geoghegan Director of Trinity Long Room Hub, History Trinity College Dublin Patrick.Geoghegan@tcd.ie
Dr Conor Trainor Lecturer (Ad Astra Fellow) School of Classics University College Dublin conor.trainor1@ucd.ie
Dr Nessa Cronin Head of Irish Studies, Centre for Irish Studies University of Galway nessa.cronin@universityofgalway.ie
Prof. Christina Morin Assistant Dean of Research Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences University of Limerick christina.morin@ul.ie
Prof. Karen Fleming Ulster Director, Northern Bridge PhD Consortium University of Ulster k.fleming@ulster.ac.uk
Institutional Members
Atlantic Technological University https://www.atu.ie/
Dublin City University http://www.dcu.ie
Mary Immaculate College https://www.mic.ul.ie/
Maynooth University http://www.nuim.ie
Queen's University Belfast https://www.qub.ac.uk/
Royal Irish Academy https://www.ria.ie/
South East Technological University https://www.setu.ie/
Technological University Dublin https://www.tudublin.ie/
Trinity College Dublin http://www.tcd.ie
University College Cork http://www.ucc.ie
University College Dublin http://www.ucd.ie
University of Galway http://www.nuigalway.ie
Ulster University https://www.ulster.ac.uk
University of Limerick http://www.ul.ie