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

Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive ...

. He was educated at acDara’s Community College, 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

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Advisory Council. He is also a member of the

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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 and medical student who was executed by the British Government during the Irish War of Independence. He was sentenced to death for his part in a ...

, grandson of Kathleen Barry Moloney 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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