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Eunan O’Halpin MRIA FTCD is professor emeritus of Contemporary Irish History at Trinity College Dublin. Among his publications are 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), Kevin Barry: an Irish rebel in life and death (Merrion Press, 2020), and (with Daithí Ó Corráin), The dead of the Irish revolution (Yale University Press, 2020).