Catherine joined NIPR as a cataloguer in 2020. She has a BA in English and Scholastic Philosophy and a MA in English, Modern Literary Studies from Queen’s University, Belfast. In 2016 Catherine gained her PG Diploma in Library and Information Management from Ulster University and went on to work on Divided Society, a digitisation project, as one of its cataloguing assistants. She then joined Linen Hall Library as a Library Assistant in 2018. Catherine is interested in Irish history and politics, especially the 18th Century and the Age of Enlightenment period.