Eunan O'Halpin
Eunan O'Halpin (/ˈjuːnən/ YOO-nən) is Bank of Ireland Professor of Contemporary Irish History at Trinity College Dublin. He was educated at Gonzaga College, Dublin, received his BA and MA from University College Dublin and received a PhD from the University of Cambridge.[1][2]
O'Halpin specialises in 20th century Irish and British history and politics. Since 2002, he has been a member of the National Archives Advisory Council. He is also a member of the Royal Irish Academy National Committee for History, the Royal Irish Academy National Committee for the Study of International Relations and of the Katherine Kavanagh Trust. He is a grandnephew of Kevin Barry, grandson of Kathleen Barry Moloney and great-grandson of Anti-Treaty Sinn Fein TD for Tipperary South, P. J. Moloney.[3]
In 2013, O'Halpin presented In the Name of the Republic, which was shown on TV3.[4]
Published works
[edit]- The Decline of the Union: British government in Ireland 1892-1920, Gill and Macmillan, 1987.
- Head of the Civil Service: A study of Sir Warren Fisher, Routledge, 1989.
- Defending Ireland: The Irish state and its enemies since 1922, Oxford University Press, 1999.
- Spying on Ireland: British intelligence and Irish neutrality, Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Dead of the Irish Revolution, Yale University Press, 2020 - with Daithi O Corrain.[5]
- Kevin Barry: The short life of an Irish rebel, Merrion Press, 2020.
References
[edit]- ^ "Professor Eunan O'Halpin". www.tcd..ie. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
- ^ "Links to the Rising". gonzaga-college. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ O'Halpin, Eunan (21 January 2019). "Eunan O'Halpin: my middle-aged, middle-class, revolutionary great-grandfather". The Irish Times. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
- ^ "In The Name of the Republic". www.entertainment.ie. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
- ^ Ó Tuathaigh, Gearóid (22 November 2020). "The Dead of the Irish Revolution: An absorbing book that counts the cost of war". The Irish Times. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
External links
[edit]- 'Sir Warren Fisher, Head of the Civil Service 1919 - 1939', PhD thesis by Eunan O'Halpin
