The Contributors

Thomas Bartlett is professor of modern Irish history at University College, Dublin. He is author of The Fall and Rise of the Irish Nation—The Catholic Question 1690-1830 and editor of the Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone (Dublin: Lilliput 1998).

Brian Hanley is a historian and is currently completing a study of the post-civil war IRA (up to 1936) at Trinity College, Dublin.

Iseult Honohan teaches political philosophy at University College, Dublin. Her academic interests include feminism and civic republicanism, on which she is currently finishing a book for Routledge.

Peter Linebaugh is professor of history at the University of Toledo, Ohio and is currently visiting professor at Bard College, Annandale, New York. He is author of The London Hanged (1991) and The Many-Headed Hydra—Sailors, slaves, commoners, and the hidden history of the revolutionary Atlantic (Beacon Press/Verso 2000), co-written with Marcus Rediker.

James Livesey teaches French history and cultural history at Trinity College, Dublin. He is author of Making Democracy in the French Revolution (Cambridge MA, 2001).

Patrick Maume is research fellow at the School of Politics, Queen’s University, Belfast. His recent book The Long Gestation—Irish Nationalist Life 1891-1918, is published by Gill & Macmillan. He is currently working on the official history of the Irish Independent.

Priscilla Metscher is a historian and taught Irish Studies at Oldenburg University, Germany from 1974 to 1999. She has published articles on radical politics in Ireland, from the United Irishmen to 1916. Her forthcoming book is James Connolly and the Reconquest of Ireland (USA, 2001).

Daltún Ó Ceallaigh is a political writer and analyst and has written or edited seven books about Irish republican history and politics, most recently: Irish Republicanism—Good Friday & After (August 2000). He is General Secretary of the Irish Federation of University Teachers.

Dr. Fergus O’Ferrall is director of The Adelaide Hospital Society. He is author of Catholic Emancipation: Daniel O’Connell and the Birth of Irish Democracy 1820-1830 (Dublin,1985) and Citizenship and Public Service—Voluntary and Statutory Relationships in Irish Healthcare (Dundalk: Dundalgan Press 2000).

Tomás Ó Fiaich (1923—90) was a historian and taught in St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, later becoming president. He became archbishop of Armagh in 1977 and cardinal in1979. He was noted for his knowledge of the work and influence of the Irish monks in early medieval Europe and his enthusiasm for and promotion of the Irish language.

Dorothy Thompson is a historian. She lectured in modern history at University of Birmingham until 1988, and has published various books including The Chartists, Queen Victoria: Gender and Power, and Outsiders: essays in Class, Gender and Nation.