Eunan O'Halpin ( ) is Bank of Ireland Professor of Contemporary Irish History at

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. He was educated at Gonzaga College, Dublin, received his BA and MA from

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and received a

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from the

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. 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 The Royal Irish Academy (RIA; ga, Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann), based in Dublin, is an academic body that promotes study in the sciences, humanities and social sciences. It is Ireland's premier List of Irish learned societies, learned socie ...

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 Kevin Gerard Barry (20 January 1902 – 1 November 1920) was an Irish Republican Army (IRA) soldier who was executed by the British Government during the Irish War of Independence. He was sentenced to death for his part in an attack upon a Bri ...

, grandson of

Kathleen Barry Moloney Kathleen "Kathy" Barry Moloney (19 October 1896 - 10 January 1969) was an Irish republican activist, and trade unionist. She was the elder sister of Kevin Barry, an Irish republican paramilitary who was executed in 1920. Early life Kathleen Ba ...

and great-grandson of Anti-Treaty Sinn Fein TD for Tipperary South, P. J. Moloney. In 2013, O'Halpin presented ''In the Name of the Republic'', which was shown on

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Published works

* ''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. * ''Kevin Barry: The short life of an Irish rebel'', Merrion Press, 2020.

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'Sir Warren Fisher, Head of the Civil Service 1919 - 1939'
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