sentences:  In 2005 she was appointed Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute for the study of Irish History and Civilization, at University College Dublin.In 2013, she left her role in the Ó Cléirigh Institute to rejoin the Discovery Programme as CEO.Her particular areas of interest concern the history of Tara in County Meath, dynastic politics in the kingdoms of Mide and Leinster.