Carmel McCaffrey is an Irish author of books and lecturer on Irish history, literature, culture, and language at

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and at the

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Biography

McCaffrey was born in

Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 c ...

, Ireland, and teaches

Irish history The first evidence of human presence in Ireland dates to around 33,000 years ago, with further findings dating the presence of homo sapiens to around 10,500 to 7,000 BC. The receding of the ice after the Younger Dryas cold phase of the Quatern ...

and

Irish literature Irish literature comprises writings in the Irish, Latin, English and Scots ( Ulster Scots) languages on the island of Ireland. The earliest recorded Irish writing dates from the 7th century and was produced by monks writing in both Latin a ...

at Johns Hopkins University in

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. She is also a frequent lecturer at the Smithsonian Institution in

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She founded and edited the literary review ''Wild About Wilde'' (1986–96) dedicated to the works of the 19th-century Irish writer, Oscar Wilde. She was the series historical consultant for the three part PBS/RTÉ program ''In Search of Ancient Ireland'' (2002) and co-author of the book of the same title. This TV series, like the book, presents the history of Ireland from neolithic times to the English invasion of the 12th century. McCaffrey is also the author of the book ''In Search of Ireland's Heroes: The Story of the Irish from the English Invasion to the Present Day'' (2006). McCaffrey is an

Irish language Irish ( Standard Irish: ), also known as Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, which is a part of the Indo-European language family. Irish is indigenous to the island of Ireland and was ...

speaker and frequently travels to Ireland. She lives in

Mount Airy, Maryland Mount Airy is a town in Carroll and Frederick counties in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is part of both the Washington Metropolitan Area and Baltimore Metropolitan Area. As of the 2010 census the population was 9,288. Outside the town limits, ...

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