The SRA Ireland team is lead by Dr Julia Hofmann.

Julia holds a BA (Hons) in History, English and Spanish and an MA (Hons) in Medieval Studies from University College Dublin and has just completed a DPhil in Medieval History at The Queen's College, Oxford. In 2005, she joined the Commentarius Rinuccinianus Project, an international team of scholars dedicated to the translation and edition of this vital seventeenth-century source. Although her most recent research has focused on the local and royal politics of the barbarian successor kingdoms, particularly Frankish Gaul and Visigothic Spain, Julia enjoys all aspects of history, from Egyptian mummies to WWII, with a special penchant for historical biography from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries AD.

We also have links to expert researchers up and down the country who are able to access all the major county archives.