Brid McGrath

Bríd McGrath is an Adjunct Assistant Professor and Lecturer in Palaeography at the Department of History, Trinity College Dublin. Her research focuses on 17th-century Irish parliaments, towns, and administrative history, particularly electoral practices, taxation, and civic structures.

• Affiliations: Trinity College Dublin, Department of History
• Research Interests: Early Modern Irish History, Paleography, Urban History

Her work includes editing historical records such as the Clonmel and Coleraine corporation records, and she has written on topics like the Irish House of Commons and the 1641 rebellion. She has held research fellowships at Archbishop Marsh’s Library, the Centre Culturel Irlandais (Paris), and others.

Teaching includes palaeography courses for M.Phil. and Ph.D. students, emphasizing hands-on work with manuscripts from 1000-1700 in multiple languages. Her publications span books, journal articles, and book chapters, focusing on Irish political and urban history.

• Awards: Research Fellowships at Archbishop Marsh’s Library, Centre Culturel Irlandais, and others

Her research explores social and economic networks of Irish towns and the impact of the Cromwellian period. She contributes to the Irish Dictionary of National Biography and has presented at conferences on legal and revolutionary history.