McQuaid's stepbrother Eugene served in the Free State army and was killed in an ambush outside Newport Co Mayo on the 22nd of February 1923. Fascinating file in the Military Service Pensions Collection.
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Old Market Street, Sligo town April 1922 and July 2025. Free State soldiers with the Ballinalee armoured car (captured by Republican forces three months later at the Rockwood ambush) during the visit of Arthur Griffith to the town.
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Ah that's very kind of you Gerry. It will probably take me another 6 months to work out how to post a photo !
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To Hayley, Anastasia, Cormac and Conor, thank you for accepting my paper and for organising such a brilliant conference. From Monica McWilliams to the Tet Offensive to an isolated bog in West Sligo and everything in between, you covered it all. Congratulations and well done !
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New Book: RESTING PLACES: ON WOUNDS, WAR AND THE IRISH REVOLUTION (Beyond the Pale Books) https://www.ellenmcwilliams.com/
Lecturer in English, University of Exeter
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Irish History Website, maintained and edited by John Dorney.
Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt. Researching Ireland and India.
Author - The Legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Independent Ireland, 1922-1949 https://shorturl.at/BNQNP
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Historian, mostly of Ireland,1912-37. New book, 'Vying for Victory', on the 1923 election, co-edited with Elaine Callinan & Thomas Tormey https://tinyurl.com/4jtm4ndb . Also a big Villa fan & music lover. Any views, are my own.
Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. An interdisciplinary research institute for all aspects of Irish culture, history, politics and society. See 'Lists' for more info. Find us at https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/
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Associate Professor in History @universityofgalway. Vice-Dean for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in CASSCS. Gender, childhood, institutions. Co-author @irelandincolour books. Co-PI Tuam Oral History Project.
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Historian, podcaster 'Dirty War in Dublin'; it is possible to disagree in good faith, but let's be honest we won't do it.
Historian & Archaeologist. Digital Humanities, Public Engagement.
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Author: Ghosts of a Family (Merrion) / Ulster’s Lost Counties (Cambridge) / An Army of Tribes (Liverpool)
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Historian of intimacy and revolution in 1920s-40s Europe (think Marks & Engels meets Mills & Boon).
Author of Irish Book Awards shortlisted HOTEL LUX — about a hotel in 1920s Moscow — and radical history newsletter Archive Rats:
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Librarian & Historian. Twitter migrant.
Researching Slavery - Memory - Power.
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Historian, Sr Lecturer UCC
Revolutionary Ireland, WW1,
‘Atlas of the Irish Civil War’, ‘Dynamics of War & Revolution’
Californian in Cork
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We curate private paper collections documenting the modern Irish State; UCD; and many elements of the Franciscan manuscript patrimony. www.ucd.ie/archives
Military Service Pensions Archive.
The largest collection in the Military Archives in Ireland.
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Father, husband, son, truthseeker. Family historian. Yes, he was my great-grandad and grandad.
