Dr Niamh Wycherley is Assistant Professor in Early Irish History in Maynooth University. She hosts The Medieval Irish History Podcast. She was Co-Chair and Chair of Young Academy Ireland from 2023–2025. She won the NUI Publication Prize in History in 2017 for her first monograph, The Cult of Relics in Early Medieval Ireland. She is the Principal Investigator of the 4-year Research Ireland Pathway project 'Power and Patronage in Medieval Ireland: Clonard from the sixth to twelfth centuries'. She previously held IRC and NUI postdoctoral fellowships in UCD and University of Galway. She contributes regularly to television programmes such as the RTÉ 1 documentary Finding Brigid (with Siobhán McSweeney) and was historical consultant on RTÉ's Blindboy: the Land of Slaves and Scholars.