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Dr. Anne Dolan

Dr. Anne Dolan

Associate Professor in Modern Irish History

Research Interests

My research has examined various dimensions of modern Irish history. I am currently working on an examination of violence and killing throughout the revolutionary period in Ireland. I am particularly interested in the consequences of violence at a political and at a personal level and in placing the Irish experience in a wider context. This work stems from a broader interest in the nature of the two states in Ireland in the inter-war period.

I am currently holder of a Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland Advanced Laureate Award for the project Witnessing War, Making Peace: Testimonies of Revolution and Restraint in Inter-War Ireland. For further details of the project click here.

Select Publications
Books

  • ‘A very hard struggle’: lives in the Military Service Pensions Collection (Dublin: Department of Defence, 2023) (ed. with Catriona Crowe), pp. 287.
  • Days in the life: reading the Michael Collins diaries 1918-1922 (with William Murphy) (Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2022), pp. 160.
  • Michael Collins: the man and the revolution (with William Murphy) (Cork: Collins Press & Gill, 2018), pp. 386.
  • ‘No surrender here!’ The civil war papers of Ernie O’Malley (Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2008) (ed. with C.K.H. O’Malley), pp. vi + 625.
  • Reinterpreting Emmet: Essays on the life and legacy of Robert Emmet (Dublin: UCD Press, 2007) (ed. with P.M. Geoghegan and D. Jones), pp. vii + 258.
  • Commemorating the Irish civil War: History and memory, 1923-2000 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003) (2nd edition, 2006), pp. 238.

Articles

I have published articles in a variety of journals including:

  • ‘I have lost a lot by fighting for my country”: reckoning with the Irish revolution’, Contemporary European History, 32/4 (2023), pp. 587-603.
  • ‘Death in the archives: witnessing war in Ireland, 1919-1921’, Past and Present, 253/1 (2021), pp. 271-300.
  • ‘Killing in “the good old Irish fashion”? Irish revolutionary violence in context’, Irish Historical Studies, 165/44 (2020), pp11-24.
  • ‘Killing and Bloody Sunday, November 1920’, The Historical Journal, 49/3 (2006), pp. 789-810

Book Chapters

Recent chapters include:

  • ‘“The lash of the liberators”: Ireland 1912-1985 on independence’ in Miriam Nyhan Grey (ed.), A tract for our times: a retrospective on Joe Lee’s Ireland 1912-1985 (Dublin: UCD Press, 2024), pp. 72-86.
  • ‘Worrying away at the Irish revolution’, in Michael D. Higgins (ed.), Machnamh 100: President of Ireland centenary reflections volume 1 (Dublin: Office of the President of Ireland, 2021), pp. 50-54.
  • ‘Politics, economy and society in the Irish Free State, 1922-1939’ in Thomas Bartlett (ed.), The Cambridge history of Ireland volume 4: 1880 to the present (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 323-48.

Teaching and Supervision

At undergraduate level I offer modules on the political, social and cultural history of Ireland in the twentieth century. At Sophister level I offer the modules ‘Ireland in the 1920s and 1930s’ (List I) and ‘Popular Culture in Twentieth century Ireland’ (List 2). I also teach a Sophister historiography module on the Irish revolutionary period, 1912-23 (List 2) and a module exploring the Anglo-Irish Treaty (List 3). I contribute to several modules on the MPhil in Modern Irish History. I also supervise dissertations at MPhil, MLitt and PhD level on a range of areas across the political, social and cultural history of Ireland in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Dr. Dolan on the TCD Research Support System

Contact Details

Room 3112
Department of History
Trinity College
Dublin 2.

Telephone: +353 1 896 1884
Email: adolan@tcd.ie