Dudley Edwards was born and brought up in Dublin and educated at University College Dublin (University College Dublin), Girton College, Cambridge, and Wolfson College, Cambridge. Her father was the Irish historian Professor Robert Dudley Edwards.
Wolfson College.
She is, amongst other positions, a columnist with the Irish Sunday Independent. Her brother Owen Dudley Edwards is a historian at Edinburgh University. They later divorced.
The following week, Edwards continued her attack in The Guardian, admitting that her first article was written without seeing the film (which at that stage had only been shown at Cannes), and asserting that she would never see it "because I can"t stand its sheer predictability."
Dudley Edwards has stated that she is "not in principle against Irish unification".
Chairwoman, British Association for Irish Studies 1985-1993
Member, Executive Committee of the British-Irish Association 1982-1993
Member, Executive Committee of the Crime Writers" Association 1995-1999
Elected to Detection Club 1996
Director, Centre for Social Cohesion (2009–2013).
Following the Cannes prize announcement, for The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Ruth Dudley Edwards wrote in the Daily Mail on 30 May 2006 that Loach"s political viewpoint "requires the portrayal of the British as sadists and the Irish as romantic, idealistic resistance fighters who take to violence only because there is no other self-respecting course," and attacked his career in an article.
Member of Management Committee of the Society of Authors 1996-1999.
