Born in Leiden, The Netherlands, in 1980 in an Irish-Dutch family, I grew up speaking both English and Dutch. I was educated at Christelijk Lyceum/Groene Hart Lyceum, Alphen aan den Rijn, and went on to study History at Leiden University (with a spell at University College Dublin as an Erasmus student), obtaining my doctoraal diploma (MA) in 2003. My thesis on the response of Roman Catholic and Church of Ireland bishops to the violence of the Irish War of Independence (1919-21) was awarded the Fruin Prize 2003 for best historical MA thesis of the year. I went on to study Catholic theology at Tilburg University’s Utrecht faculty, receiving a BA in 2007.
I was a doctoral student at Maynooth University in Ireland from 2007 to 2011. My research was funded by the university through a John and Pat Hume Scholarship and by what was then the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences through a Government of Ireland Postgraduate Research Scholarship. I obtained my PhD in 2011. A fully revised version of the thesis was published in 2014 by Manchester University Press as Freedom and the Fifth Commandment. Catholic Priests and Political Violence in Ireland, 1919-21.
I wrote a history of the Augustinians in the Netherlands (1886-2006) from 2010 to 2014; from 2011 to 2013 as a postdoctoral researcher affiliated to the Ruusbroec Institute, University of Antwerp. The resulting book, Een kleine orde met allure. De augustijnen in Nederland, 1886-2006 was published by Uitgeverij Verloren in August 2015. I was a lecturer at Leiden University's Institute for History in 2016 and from August 2017 to January 2019. From July 2016 to June 2021 I worked on a book on the history of Discalced Carmelite nuns in the Netherlands, a Stichting Echo project. The book was published in November 2021 as Radicaal kloosterleven. Ongeschoeide karmelietessen in de Nederlandse katholieke kerk, 1872-2020 by Amsterdam University Press. A condensed, adapted English translation entitled Modern Carmelite Nuns and Contemplative Identities. Shaping Spirituality in the Netherlands will be published by Manchester University Press in 2024. I am an associate editor of DHGE - Louvain Dictionary of Church History and am currently working with Stephan van Erp on a biography of the Dominican theologian Edward Schillebeeckx O.P. (the 1965-2009 years).
I'm a member of the Ecclesiastical History Society and the Irish Association of Professional Historians, a corresponding member of the Institutum Historicum Augustinianum in Rome, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).
I've been working as a translator and editor since 2004, specialising in translating Dutch texts into English and in editing English texts written by non-native speakers. I am a member of the Belgian Chamber of Translators and Interpreters.
I was a doctoral student at Maynooth University in Ireland from 2007 to 2011. My research was funded by the university through a John and Pat Hume Scholarship and by what was then the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences through a Government of Ireland Postgraduate Research Scholarship. I obtained my PhD in 2011. A fully revised version of the thesis was published in 2014 by Manchester University Press as Freedom and the Fifth Commandment. Catholic Priests and Political Violence in Ireland, 1919-21.
I wrote a history of the Augustinians in the Netherlands (1886-2006) from 2010 to 2014; from 2011 to 2013 as a postdoctoral researcher affiliated to the Ruusbroec Institute, University of Antwerp. The resulting book, Een kleine orde met allure. De augustijnen in Nederland, 1886-2006 was published by Uitgeverij Verloren in August 2015. I was a lecturer at Leiden University's Institute for History in 2016 and from August 2017 to January 2019. From July 2016 to June 2021 I worked on a book on the history of Discalced Carmelite nuns in the Netherlands, a Stichting Echo project. The book was published in November 2021 as Radicaal kloosterleven. Ongeschoeide karmelietessen in de Nederlandse katholieke kerk, 1872-2020 by Amsterdam University Press. A condensed, adapted English translation entitled Modern Carmelite Nuns and Contemplative Identities. Shaping Spirituality in the Netherlands will be published by Manchester University Press in 2024. I am an associate editor of DHGE - Louvain Dictionary of Church History and am currently working with Stephan van Erp on a biography of the Dominican theologian Edward Schillebeeckx O.P. (the 1965-2009 years).
I'm a member of the Ecclesiastical History Society and the Irish Association of Professional Historians, a corresponding member of the Institutum Historicum Augustinianum in Rome, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).
I've been working as a translator and editor since 2004, specialising in translating Dutch texts into English and in editing English texts written by non-native speakers. I am a member of the Belgian Chamber of Translators and Interpreters.
At symposium on the occasion of the transfer of the Dutch Augustinian provincial archives to Het Utrechts Archief,
Utrecht, 14 November 2014 (photo by Joost van Neer)