Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin

Dr Susan Byrne

Susan Byrne completed her PhD in 2024 and her research, which was funded by the IRC, examined female prisoner’s experience of the Free State justice system, 1922-1947. ‘”Keeping Company with the Enemy”: gender and sexual violence against women during the Irish War of Independence and Civil War, 1919-1923’, an article based on her MA thesis, was published by Women’s History Review in 2021. She also contributed to the essay collection, ‘A Very Hard Struggle’, Lives in the MSPC (2023) edited by Anne Dolan and Catriona Crowe for the Irish Military Archives. She is currently a Research Fellow on a project titled ‘Witnessing War, Making Peace’ which is led by Dr Anne Dolan.