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Anne Dolan is an associate professor of modern Irish history at Trinity College Dublin. Her publications include Commemorating the Irish Civil War: history and memory 1923-2000 (Cambridge, 2003). She is joint editor of ‘No surrender here!’ The Civil War papers of Ernie O’Malley (Dublin, 2007). She co-wrote Michael Collins: the man and the revolution (Cork, 2018) with William Murphy.