Liam Chambers completed a BA, MA and PhD at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth (now Maynooth University). He joined the Department of History at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, in 2000 where he has been a senior lecturer and head of the Department of History since 2011. Chambers's research explores aspects of eighteenth-century Irish history; Irish migration to early modern Europe; the history of Catholicism; Irish students, and clergy and colleges in early modern Paris. He was a joint editor of Irish Historical Studies from 2016 to 2021 and is a current member of the Irish Manuscripts Commission.