Dr Angela Byrne is a Donegal native and a historian specialising in the experiences of migrants and women in the past. She is editor at the Dictionary of Irish Biography (Royal Irish Academy) having previously worked at the universities of Toronto, Greenwich, Ulster and Maynooth, and at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum. Angela’s most recent book is Anarchy and Authority: Irish Encounters with Romanov Russia (Lilliput Press, 2024); in 2025 she will publish Irish Historic Towns Atlas no. 32: Ballyshannon (Royal Irish Academy) and Finding Mary: The Untold Story of an Inishowen Murder, 1844 (Four Courts Press).