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'''Edel Bhreathnach''' is an Irish historian and academic and former CEO of the Discovery Programme.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.discoveryprogramme.ie/about/staff/214-edel-bhreathnach.html |title=ArchivedEdel copyBhreathnach |access-date=2014-06-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131227043011/http://www.discoveryprogramme.ie/about/staff/214-edel-bhreathnach.html |archive-date=2013-12-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Bhreathnach was a Tara Research Fellow for [[the Discovery Programme]] from 1992 to 2000. 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 [[Hill of Tara|Tara]] in [[County Meath]], dynastic politics in the kingdoms of [[Mide]] and [[Leinster]].She is currently part of the Monastic Ireland network and ishas working onpublished a major study ofon monasticism in Ireland AD900-1250 (Four Courts Press, 2024).

* ''KilleskinKilleshin: An Irish Monastery Surveyed'' in ''Cambridge/Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies'', pp.&nbsp;33–47. 1994.

* ''Ireland AD400-1000. Landscape, kingship and religion'' Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2014 <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/product.php?intProductID=1058 |title=ArchivedFour copyCourts Press: Ireland in the medieval world, AD400–1000 by Edel Bhreathnach |access-date=2014-06-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140612100906/http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/product.php?intProductID=1058 |archive-date=2014-06-12 |url-status=dead }}</ref>