Maurice J. Casey is a Research Fellow in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen's University Belfast. His research interests include radical history, queer history and public history.
Anne Dolan is Associate Professor in Modern Irish History at Trinity College, Dublin. Her research has examined the nature and the legacy of the Irish Civil War, and she is currently working on an examination of violence throughout the revolutionary period in Ireland.
Justin Dolan Stover received his PhD from Trinity College Dublin. He is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of History at Idaho State University. He has published widely on the revolutionary period in Ireland. His first book, Enduring Ruin: Environmental Destruction during the Irish Revolution, is published with University College Dublin Press.
Gavin Foster is Associate Professor of Modern Irish History in the School of Irish Studies, Concordia University. His research on modern Ireland focuses on republicanism, the IRA, political violence, social conflict, class, labour, emigration and commemoration/memory, particularly of the Irish Revolution (1913–23). In 2015, his monograph The Irish Civil War and Society: Politics, Class, and Conflict (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) was awarded the American Conference for Irish Studies’ James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize for Books on History and Social Sciences. He is presently writing a book on Irish Civil War memory based on oral history interviews.
Brian Hughes is Assistant Professor in History at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. His primary research interest lies in the impact of the Irish Revolution on individuals and communities and specifically the use of intimidation and coercion by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) at a local level. He is also interested in the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland and its effects. In 2012, he published the first biography of Michael Mallin, one of the sixteen men executed for his part in the Rising, and in 2016 he edited a memoir by Gaelic scholar and revolutionary Eoin MacNeill.
Tom Junes is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He holds a PhD from the KU Leuven (Belgium) and as a postdoctoral researcher he has held fellowships in Warsaw, Vienna, Budapest, Helsinki, Potsdam, Jena, Sofia, and Florence. His research interests cover Eastern European history and Cold War history with a focus on youth and student movements, communist and socialist party politics, and post-1989 protests. He is the author of Student Politics in Communist Poland: Generations of Consent and Dissent (Lexington Books, 2015) and has published widely on topics relating to student protest in Eastern Europe.
James McConnel is a historian of modern Ireland. He joined Northumbria University in 2008, where he is currently Reader. Before that, he was a Lecturer at Ulster University between 2006 and 2008 and a research assistant at a number of British and Irish universities. Over the last two decades, his research has focused on various aspects of the political history of modern Ireland. His first book, The Irish Parliamentary Party and the Third Home Rule Crisis (Dublin: Four Courts, 2013), considered the IPP during the third home rule episode and the Ulster crisis of 1913–14. His work since then has focused on particular aspects of the careers of John Redmond and his family, as well as Redmond's politics during the early years of the First World War. Building on these themes, his current project focuses on pro-war nationalist propaganda between 1914 and 1918 (funded by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship during 2019–20).
Matt Myers teaches history at the University of Oxford. He was a participant in the 2010 student movement and is the author of Student Revolt: Voices of the Austerity Generation (Pluto, 2017).
Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Sheffield. Prior to this, she held research fellowships at Queen's University Belfast, Fitzwilliam College Cambridge, and the University of St Andrews. Her initial work focused on the history of the Irish Revolution and the broader history of political violence. This led to two monographs, Seán MacBride: A Republican Life (Liverpool University Press, 2011) and Terrorist Lives: Individuals and Political Violence since the Nineteenth Century (Routledge, 2016). Since then she has been working on the history of childhood and memory during and after the Irish Revolution, and her current research project, funded by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship, explores the history of emotions during the revolutionary period.
Máirtín Seán Ó Catháin is a Senior Lecturer in Modern Irish History at the University of Central Lancashire. Originally from Glasgow, he has lived in Northern Ireland for over twenty-five years and has written on Irish migrant communities, aspects of Scottish and Irish anarchism, and on mutual aid and self-organisation as themes in local and regional labour history. He also has interests in the history of the everyday, negative ontology, work avoidance and the liminal spaces of migration and diaspora.
Vladimir Petrović is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History (Belgrade) and an affiliate of NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Amsterdam).
Leah Valtin-Erwin holds a PhD in Eastern European History from Indiana University Bloomington (2023), an MA in Global Studies and Russian and East European Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2018), and a BA in Liberal Arts with a concentration in Eastern and Central European Studies from Hampshire College (2016). Currently working as Grants and Programs Coordinator at the Association for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, she has also served as editor of the Society for Romanian Studies' semi-annual newsletter, as graduate assistant for the Polish Studies Center at Indiana University Bloomington, and as President of the Romanian Studies Organization at Indiana University Bloomington.
