Dr Ruth Dudley Edwards
Ruth Dudley Edwards is a graduate of the National University of Ireland and of Girton College Cambridge. She is a prizewinning author of ten books of historical scholarship relating to British and Irish history and a regular contributor to newspapers, TV and radio in Britain and Ireland. She is also a successful crime fiction novelist, renowned for her satirical and humorous touch.
Currently a freelance writer and historian, Ruth Dudley Edwards is not only an outstanding academic but also a key opinion former in respect of British-Irish relations. Her greatest achievement is the ten years she spent campaigning for justice for the victims of the Omagh atrocity – this culminated in a landmark legal judgement earlier this year and the publication of her intimate portrait of the lives of the survivors of the 1998 bombing “Aftermath: the Omagh bombing and the Families Pursuit of Justice”.
Her distinctions also include the Prize for Irish Historical Research (Patrick Pearse 1968); James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography; Chairperson of the British Association for Irish Studies (1985-93); and a member of a variety of organisations linking Britain, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Watch Ruth Dudley Edwards receive her honorary degree.
