Despite always being curious about what lay behind those stunning glass window displays of the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute, I had never plucked up the courage to venture over the threshold. Last week I took the plunge, all in the name of interviewing a woman fondly referred to by friends and colleagues as a “master of the arts and humanities”. Although first and foremost an “Irish historian”, Jane Ohlmeyer, as the visionary, founder and current director of the Long Room Hub, has made it her life’s work to restructure and rejuvenate not only Trinity’s but the world’s approach to the … Continue reading Jane Ohlmeyer is an Academic Unafraid of Trinity’s Political Tightrope