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Fionnuala Walsh is assistant professor of Modern Irish History at University College Dublin. She completed her PhD and Irish Research Council postdoctoral fellowship at Trinity College Dublin. Her first monograph Irish women and the Great War was published by Cambridge University Press in 2020. She is the secretary of the Women’s History Association of Ireland.