Biography
Eunan O'Halpin retired in September 2020 from the Bank of Ireland Chair of Contemporary Irish History,and as Director of the Trinity Research Centre for Contemporary Irish History. He was previously Professor of Government at Dublin City University (1998-2000). Educated at UCD and Cambridge, where he researched the interwar British Treasury, he has written widely on aspects of 20th Irish and British history and politics. His most recent books are 'Kevin Barry: an Irish Rebel in Life and Death' (Dublin, 2020),'The Dead of the Irish Revolution' (New Haven and London, 2020) (with Daithi O Corrain), and 'Spying on Ireland: British Intelligence and Irish Neutrality during the Second World War' (Oxford, 2008).
His current research interests include Afghanistan and the belligerents during the Second World War, Ireland's civil wars, 1921-23, and Anglo-Irish relations and the Northern Ireland Troubles.
He is a Member (2003) of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow (2003) of Trinity College Dublin.
In 2012 he was Visiting Fellow at the Jawaharlal Nehru University Institute of Advanced Studies in Delhi, carrying out research in the National Archives of India and in the Nehru Memorial Library.
Professor O'Halpin has supervised thirty Trinity Ph.Ds on recent Irish and British history, many of which have since been reworked for publication as monographs with university presses in the UK and Ireland.
Professor O'Halpin served as an elected member of the Board of Trinity College from 2005 to 2012, and from 2016 to 2020.He was a member of the National Archives Advisory Council (2003-7) and the Department of Justice Archives Advisory Group (2006-10), and is a former chair of the Royal Irish Academy National Committee for the Study of International Affairs and of its National Committee for Historical Studies.
He is a joint editor of the Royal Irish Academy Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series (1996-_), and a member of the International Board of 20th Century British History. Together with Dr Anne Dolan (TCD), Dr Michael Kennedy (Royal Irish Academy), and Dr Deirdre McMahon (University of Limerick), he convenes the weekly Research Seminar in Contemporary Irish History.
Professor O'Halpin is a member of the government's Expert Advisory Group on Commemorations (2012-), and of the Barristers Professional Standards Appeals Board Board (2012-).
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Female Revolutionaries and Political Violence in India and Ireland 1919-1939 in, editor(s)Atwal,J, Breathnach, C and S.A. Buckley , Gender and History: Ireland 1852-1922, London, Routledge, 2023, pp265 - 281, pp265-81 , [Eunan O'Halpin]
Ciara Breathnach and Eunan O'Halpin, Sexual assault and fatal violence against women during the Irish War of Independence, 1919"1921: Kate Maher"s murder in context , Medical Humanities, (2022;1), 2021, p94 - 103, p94-103
'How history helps: Michael Russell's IrishThrillers in, editor(s)Elizabeth Mannion and Brian Cliff , Guilt Rules All: Irish Mystery, Detective and Crime Fiction, Syracuse, NY, Syracuse University Press, 2020, pp90 - 108, [Eunan O'Halpin]
Eunan O'Halpin and Daithi O Corrain, The Dead of the Irish Revolution, 1st, London and New Haven, Yale University Press, 2020, 1 - 706pp
'Afghanistan, 1939-1945: from linchpin to backwater' in, editor(s)Andre Gerolymatos and Denis Smyth , Neutral Countries as Clandestine Battlegrounds, 1939-1968: Between Two Fires:, Lanham, Lexington Books, 2020, pp179 - 202, [Eunan O'Halpin]
Eunan O'Halpin, Kevin Barry: An Irish Rebel in Life and Death, 1st, Dublin, Merrion Press, 2020, 1 - 260pp
Eunan O'Halpin, PJ Moloney's 1916 journal and an introduction, Tipperary Historical Journal , (32), 2019, p132 - 153
'Endword: Ireland looking outwards, 1880-2016 in, editor(s)Thomas Bartlett , Cambridge History of Ireland Volume 4: 1880 to the Present, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp809 - 838, [Eunan O'Halpin]
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy Volume XI 1957-61, Michael Kennedy, Dermot Keogh, Eunan O'Halpin, Kate O'Malley, Bernadette Whelan, 1st, (Documents on Irish Foreign Poicy), Dublin:, Royal Irish academy, 2018, - 1-433
"Between Two Hells": the Social, Political and Military Backgrounds and Motivations of the 121 TDs Who Voted For or Against the Anglo-Irish Treaty in January 1922' in, editor(s)Liam Weeks and Micheal O Fathartaigh , The Treaty: Debating and Establishing the Irish State, Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 2018, pp113 - 135, [Eunan O'Halpin and Mary Staines]
Epilogue in, editor(s)Eugenio F. Biagini and Mary E. Daly , The Cambridge Social History of Modern Ireland, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2017, pp506 - 603, [Eunan O'Halpin and Guy Beiner]
Eunan O'Halpin, 'British Cryptanalysis and China, 1937-1945: An Underused Source for Recent Chinese History?, Twentieth Century China, 42, (2), 2017, p198 - 212
'Ireland: Plus Ca Change, 1945-2015' in, editor(s)Bob de Graaff & James Nyce , Handbook of European Intelligence Cultures, Lanham, Maryland, Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, pp183 - 195, [Eunan O'Halpin]
Eunan O'Halpin, 'The Fate of Indigenous and Soviet Central Asian Jews in Afghanistan, 1933-1951', Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 30, (2), 2016, p298 - 327
Eunan O'Halpin, 'Rethinking Irish civil-military relations in the 21st century', Defence Forces Review, 2016, p217 - 224
Eunan O'Halpin (with Catriona Crowe, Ronan Fanning, Michael Kennedy, Dermot Keogh and Kate O'Malley (eds.) , Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: Volume X, 1951-1957, 1st, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 2016, 1 - 379pp, Book, PUBLISHED, 1st, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 2016, 1 - 379pp
Augustine Birrell 1850-1933 in, editor(s)Lawrence White and James Quinn , 1916 Portraits and Lives, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 2015, pp48 - 53, [Eunan O'Halpin]
'I am sure there was confidence in Nero' in, editor(s)Kevin Rafter and Mark O'Brien , The State in Transition: Essays in honour of John Horgan, Dublin, New Island, 2015, pp318 - 325, [Eunan O'Halpin]
'British intelligence, PIRA, and the early years of the Northern Ireland crisis: remembering, forgetting and mythologizing' in, editor(s)Paul Maddrell , The Image of the Enemy: intelligence analysis of adversaries since 1945, Washington DC, Georgetown University Press, 2015, pp162 - 191 , [Eunan O'Halpin]
Eunan O'Halpin and Ciara Breathnach, Scripting blame: Irish coroners' courts and unnamed infant dead, 1916-32, Social History, 39, (2), 2014, p210 - 228
Ireland and World War II in, editor(s)Alvin Jackson , Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014, pp719 - 735, [Eunan O'Halpin]
The Military Service Pensions Project and Irish History: a personal perspective in, editor(s)Patrick Brennan and Catriona Crowe , Guide to the Miltiary Service (1916-1923) Pensions Collection , Dublin, Department of Defence, 2014, pp144 - 165, [Eunan O'Halpin]
Eunan O'Halpin (with Catriona Crowe, Ronan Fanning, Michael Kennedy, Dermot Keogh and Kate O'Malley (eds.) , Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: Volume IX, 1948-1951, 1st, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 2014, 1 - 349pp
Problematic Killing in the Irish War of Independence: the kiling of spies and informers in, editor(s)James Kelly and Marian Lyons , Death and Dying in Ireland, Britain and Europe: Historical Perspectives, Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 2013, pp173 - 198, [Eunan O'Halpin]
Counting Terror: Bloody Sunday and 'The Dead of the Irish Revolution' in, editor(s)David Fitzpatrick , Terror in Ireland 1916-1923, Dublin, The Lilliput Press, 2012, pp141 - 157, [Eunan O'Halpin]
Eunan O'Halpin and Ciara Breathnach, Registered 'unknown' infant fatalities in Ireland, 1916-32: gender and power, Irish Historical Studies, XXXVIII, (No. 149), 2012, p70 - 88
C. Crowe, R. Fanning, M. Kennedy, D. Keogh, E O'Halpin ,, Documents on Irish Foreign Policy volume VIII: 1945-1948, 1st, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 2012, 1-396pp
Chiefs of Staff in Historical Perspective in, editor(s)Thomas Hodson , Chiefs of Staff: the portraits collection of the Irish Defence Forces, Dublin, 2011, pp17 - 22, [Eunan O'Halpin]
'The value and limits of experience in the early years of the Northern Ireland Troubles' in, editor(s)Michael Goodman and Robert Dover , Lessons from the Secret Past: cases in British intelligence history, Washington DC, Georgetown University Press, 2011, pp189 - 210, [Eunan O'Halpin]
Eunan O'Halpin, 'The challenges facing the defence forces in the next five year', Defence Forces Review, 2011, p13 - 19
C. Crowe, R. Fanning, M. Kennedy, D. Keogh, E O'Halpin , Documents on Irish Foreign Policy volume VII: 1941-1945, 1st, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 2010, 1-389pp
'Problems in obtaining and using official records for research in Irish and British history in the twenty-first century' in, editor(s)Andrew Flinn and Harriet Jones , 'Freedom of Information: Open access, empty archives?, London, Routledge, 2009, pp143 - 154, [Eunan O'Halpin]
The Vichy Legation in Dublin in comparative perspective in, editor(s)Jane Conroy , Franco-Irish Connections: Essays, memoirs and poems in honour of Pierre Joannon, Dublin, Four Courts, 2009, pp373 - 395, [Eunan O'Halpin & Alice Harrison]
Eunan O'Halpin, Catriona Crowe, Ronan Fanning, Michael Kennedy and Dermot Keogh , Documents on Irish Foreign Policy Volume VI: 1939-1941, 1st, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 2008
Eunan O'Halpin, 'A Poor Thing But Our Own': the Joint Intelligence Committee and Ireland, 1965-1972, Intelligence and National Security, 23, (5), 2008, p658 - 680
Eunan O'Halpin, Spying on Ireland: British intelligence and Irish neutrality during the second world war, 1st, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008, vi - 335pp
Eunan O'Halpin, Eyes on Ireland, Dublin Review of Books, (8), 2008, p1 - 7
Eunan O'Halpin, 'A Greek Authoritarian Phase'?: The Irish Army and the Irish Crisis, 1969-70, Irish Political Studies, 23, (4), 2008, p475 - 490
Britain's neutral neighbours: Ireland and Afghanistan compared, 1939-1945 in, editor(s)Rory Miller , Ireland and the Middle East: Trade, Society and Peace, Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 2007, pp24 - 42, [Eunan O'Halpin]
'Intelligence and Anglo-Irish relations, 1922-1973' in, editor(s)Eunan O'Halpin, Robert Armstrong, Jane Ohlmeyer , Intelligence, statecraft and international power: historical studies XXV. Dublin. : Irish Academic Press, 2006 , Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 2006, pp132 - 150, [Eunan O'Halpin]
The Irish Experience of Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency since 1919 in, editor(s)Peter Dennis and Jeffrey Grey , An Art in Itself: The Theory and Conduct of Small Wars and Insurgencies, Canberra, Australian History Military Publications, 2006, pp53 - 72, [Eunan O'Halpin]
Eunan O'Halpin, Robert Armstrong, and Jane Ohlmeyer (eds.), Intelligence, statecraft and international power: historical studies XXV, 1st, Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 2006, 1 - 246pp
"Hitler's Irish hideout": a case study of SOE's black propaganda battles in, editor(s)Mark Seaman , Special Operations Executive: a new instrument of war, London, Routledge, 2006, pp201 - 216, [Eunan O'Halpin]
Eunan O'Halpin, Catriona Crowe, Ronan Fanning, Michael Kennedy and Dermot Keogh , Documents on Irish foreign policy vol. v: 1937-39, 1st, Dublin , Royal Irish Academy , Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 2006, 1-554pp
Eunan O'Halpin, The Liddell Diaries and British Intelligence History, Intelligence and National Security, 20, (4), 2005, p669 - 685
Eunan O'Halpin, 'Evidence from the Butler and Hutton reports: the British case for confronting Iraq', Irish Studies in International Affairs, 16, 2005, 89 - 102
'The geopolitics of republican diplomacy in the twentieth century' in, editor(s)Maurice Bric & John Coakley , From Political Violence to Negotiated Settlement: the winding path to peace in twentieth century Ireland, Dublin, University College Dublin Press, 2004, pp81 - 98, [Eunan O'Halpin]
Eunan O'Halpin, Catriona Crowe, Ronan Fanning, Michael Kennedy and Dermot Keogh, Documents on Irish foreign policy vol. iv: 1932-36, 1st, Dublin , Royal Irish Academy, 2004, 585pp
British intelligence, the Republican Movement and the IRA's German links, 1935-45' in, editor(s)Fearghal McGarry , Republicanism in Modern Ireland, Dublin, UCD Press, 2003, pp108 - 131, [O'Halpin E.]
O'Halpin E., (ed.) MI5 and Ireland, 1939-1945: the official history, Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 2003
Politics and the state, 1922-32 in, editor(s)J. R. Hill , A New History of Ireland, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003, pp86 - 123, [Eunan O'Halpin]
O'Halpin E., What the British knew, The Dublin Review, 8, 2002, p109 - 114
Eunan O'Halpin, Ronan Fanning, Michael Kennedy and Dermot Keogh, Documents on Irish Foreign Policy volume III: 1926-1932, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy/Department of Foreign Affairs, 2002
O'Halpin E., Ireland and EU Intelligence Assessment: the politics of an undeclared Petersberg task, Irish Political Studies, 17, (2), 2002, p35 - 58
Irish neutrality in the second world war in, editor(s)Neville Wylie , European neutrals and non-belligerents during the Second World War, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp183 - 203, [O'Halpin E.]
Ireland and the international security environment: changing police and military roles' in, editor(s)William Crotty and David E. Schmitt , Ireland on the world stage , London, Longman, 2002, pp140 - 152, [O'Halpin E.]
O'Halpin E., Small states and big secrets: understanding Sigint cooperation between unequal powers during the Second World War, Intelligence and National Security, 17, (3), 2002, p1 - 16
Still persecuting civil servants? Parliamentarian/citizen relationships in Ireland in, editor(s)Philip Norton , Parliaments and citizens in Western Europe, London, Frank Cass, 2002, [O'Halpin E.]
The system of city and county management in, editor(s)Mary E. Daly , County and Town: one hundred years of local government in Ireland, Dublin, Institute of Public Administration, 2001, pp35 - 44, [O'Halpin E.]
O'Halpin E., Northern Ireland: the troubled peace process', Irish Studies in International Affairs, 12, 2001, p243 - 248
O'Halpin E., Kennedy M., Ireland and the Council of Europe: from isolation towards integration, Strasbourg, Council of Europe, 2000
Eunan O'Halpin, Ronan Fanning, Michael Kennedy and Dermot Keogh)., Documents on Irish Foreign Policy volume II: 1923-1926, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy/Department of Foreign Affairs, 2000
The significance of Irish parliamentarians in the parliamentary arena in, editor(s)Lawrence Longley and Drago Zajc , Working Papers on Comparative Legislative Studies: Parliamentary members and leaders, the delicate balance. IV, Appleton, Wisconsin, Lawrence University, 2000, pp137 - 148, [Shane Martin and Eunan O'Halpin]
O'Halpin E., Irish-Allied relations and the American Note crisis: new evidence from British records, Irish Studies in International Affairs, 11, 2000, p71 - 83
O'Halpin E., Ah, They've given us a good bit of stuff : Tribunals and Irish political life at the turn of the century, Irish Political Studies, 15, 2000, p182 - 193
Weird prophecies: British intelligence and Anglo-Irish relations, 1932-3' in, editor(s)Joseph Skelly and Michael Kennedy , Irish foreign policy since 1922, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2000, pp61 - 73, [O'Halpin E.]
O'Halpin E., Toys and whispers in 16-land: SOE and Ireland, 1940-42, Intelligence and National Security, 15, (4), 2000, p1 - 18
MI5's Irish memories: fresh evidence on Anglo-Irish relations during the Second World War in, editor(s)Brian Girvin and Geoff Roberts , Ireland and the Second World War: politics, economy and remembrance, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2000, pp133 - 150, [O'Halpin E.]
O'Halpin E., Intelligence in the civil war, The Irish Sword, 1999
Parliaments and pressure groups: the Irish experience of change in, editor(s)Philip Norton , Parliaments and pressure groups in Western Europe, London, Frank Cass, 1999, pp124 - 144, [O'Halpin E., Connolly E.]
O'Halpin E., Historical revisit: Dorothy Macardle, 'The Irish Republic, Irish Historical Studies, xxxi, (123), 1999, p389 - 394
O'Halpin E., Defending Ireland: the Irish state and its enemies since 1922, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999
The system of government in, editor(s)John Coakley and Michael Gallagher , Politics in the Republic of Ireland, London, Routledge, 1999, pp81 - 93, [O'Halpin E., Connolly E.]
The politics of governance in the four countries of the United Kingdom, 1912-1922 in, editor(s)S. J. Connolly , Kingdoms United? Great Britain and Ireland since 1500: integration and diversity, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 1998, pp239 - 248, [O'Halpin E.]
O'Halpin E., Asquith A., The changing roles of Irish local authority managers, Administration, 45, (4), 1998, p76 - 92
Collins and intelligence - from brotherhood to bureaucracy in, editor(s)G. Doherty and D. Keogh , Michael Collins and the making of the Irish state, Dublin, Mercier Press, 1998, pp68 - 80, [O'Halpin E.]
Power with Responsibility: the Role of the Managers in Irish Local Government in, editor(s)K. K. Klausen and Annick Magnier , The Anonymous Leader: Appointed CEOs in Western Local Government, Odense, University of Odense Press, 1998, pp64 - 77, [O'Halpin E., Asquith A.]
Eunan O'Halpin, Ronan Fanning, Michael Kennedy and Dermot Keogh)., Documents on Irish Foreign Policy volume 1: January 1919-December 1922, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy/Department of Foreign Affairs, 1998
A changing relationship? Parliament and Government in Ireland in, editor(s)Philip Norton , Parliaments and Governments in Western Europe, London, Frank Cass, 1998, pp123 - 141, [O'Halpin E.]
O'Halpin E., Partnership programme managers in the Reynolds/Spring coalition, 1993-4: an assessment, Irish Political Studies, 12, 1997, p43 - 56
The Irish association of local government CEOs in, editor(s)Michael Goldsmith and Poul Erik Mouritzen , The UDITE leadership study, Copenhagen, Kommunaldirectorforeningen I Denmark, 1997, pp72 - 77, [O'Halpin E., Asquith A.]
O'Halpin E., Parliamentary party discipline and tactics in the Fianna Fail archives, 1926-1932, Irish Historical Studies, XXX, (120), 1997, p581 - 590
The Oireachtas, World Encyclopaedia of Legislatures, 1997, pp352 - 380, [O'Halpin E.]
Irish parliamentary culture and the European Union: formalities to be observed in, National Parliaments and the European Union, London, Frank Cass, 1996, pp124 - 135, [O'Halpin E.]
Fianna Fail on the highwire of foreign policy in, editor(s)Philip Hannon and Jackie Gallagher , Taking the long view: 70 years of Fianna Fail, Dublin, Blackwater Press, 1996, pp102 - 115, [O'Halpin E.]
The Irish county and city managers association in, editor(s)Goldsmith, M , The associations of local government CEOs in Europe, Odense, University of Odense, 1996, pp34 - 43, [O'Halpin E., Asquith A.]
The army in independent Ireland in, editor(s)Thomas Bartlett and Keith Jeffery , A military history of Ireland, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp407 - 430, [O'Halpin E.]
O'Halpin E., Irish parliamentary culture and the European Union: formalities to be observed, The Journal of Legislative Studies, 1, (3), 1995, p124 - 135
O'Halpin E., Aspects of intelligence, The Irish Sword, xix, 1995, p57 - 65
O'Halpin E., According to the Irish minister in Rome: British decrypts and Irish diplomacy during the second world war, Irish Studies in International Affairs, 6, 1995, p95 - 105
The Army and the Dail: civil/military relations within the independence movement in, editor(s)Brian Farrell , The creation of the Dail, Dublin, Blackwater Press, 1994, pp107 - 121, [O'Halpin E.]
Army, politics and society, 1923-1945 in, editor(s)TG Fraser and Keith Jeffery , Men, women and war: Historical Studies XVIII, Dublin, Lilliput, 1993, pp158 - 174, [O'Halpin E.]
Policy making in, editor(s)John Coakley and Michael Gallagher , Politics in the Republic of Ireland, Galway, PSAI Press, 1992, pp167 - 181, [O'Halpin E.]
O'Halpin E., Boland J., Bannon M., City and county management, 1929-1990: a retrospective, Dublin, Institute of Public Administration, 1991
O'Halpin E., The civil service and the political system, Administration, 38, (4), 1991, p283 - 302
Ireland in spy fiction in, editor(s)Wesley K. Wark , Spy fiction, spy films and real intelligence, London, Frank Cass, 1991, pp92 - 116, [O'Halpin E., Jeffery K.]
O'Halpin E., Anglo-Irish security co-operation since 1969: a Dublin perspective, Conflict Quarterly, X, (1), 1990, p1 - 18
O'Halpin E., Jeffery K., Ireland in spy fiction, Intelligence and National Security, 5, (4), 1990, p92 - 116
O'Halpin E., Intelligence and security in Ireland, 1922-45, Intelligence and National Security, 5, (1), 1990, p50 - 83
O'Halpin E, Head of the civil service: a study of Sir Warren Fisher, London, Routledge, 1989
O'Halpin E., Sources for Labour history: the Walter Long and Field Marshal Lord French papers, Saothar, 14, 1989, p102 - 104
O'Halpin E, The decline of the union: British government in Ireland, 1892-1920, Dublin and Syracuse, Gill and Macmillan, Syracuse University Press, 1987
O'Halpin E., Intelligence fact and fiction, Intelligence and National Security, 2, (3), 1987, p168 - 171
Ireland, 1854-1939 in, editor(s)Sabino Cassesse and Jill Pellew , Le systeme du merite: cahiers d'histoire de l'Administration, Brussels, Institut International des Sciences Administratives, 1987, pp109 - 117, [O'Halpin E.]
O'Halpin E., Oireachtas committees: performance and prospects, Seirbhis Phoibli, vii, (2), 1987, p3 - 9
Financing British intelligence: the evidence up to 1945 in, editor(s)KG Robertson , British and American approaches to intelligence, Basingstoke and London, Macmillan/Royal United Services Institution, 1987, pp187 - 217, [O'Halpin E.]
Eunan O'Halpin, John Boland TD and John Dowling, Serving the country better: a debate, Administration, 34, (3), 1986, p287 - 301
O'Halpin E., British patronage and an Irish writer: the background to the award of a government grant to James Joyce in 1916, The James Joyce Quarterly, 24, (1), 1986, p79 - 83
O'Halpin E., The Dail committee of public accounts, 1961-1980, Administration, 32, (4), 1985, p483 - 511
O'Halpin E. , British government and society in the twentieth century, Historical Journal, 27, (3), 1985, p751 - 762
British intelligence in Ireland, 1914-1921 in, editor(s)CM Andrew and David Dilks , The missing dimension: governments and intelligence communities in the twentieth century, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1984, pp55 - 77, [O'Halpin E.]
O'Halpin E. , The secret service vote and Ireland, 1868-1922, Irish Historical Studies, xxiii, (92), 1983, p348 - 353
O'Halpin E., H.E. Duke and the Irish administration, 1916-18, Irish Historical Studies, xxi, (88), 1981, p362 - 375
O'Halpin E., Sir Warren Fisher and the coalition, 1919-1922, Historical Journal, 24, (4), 1981, p907 - 928
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Personal Loss and the "Trauma of Internal War": The Cases of W.T. Cosgrave and Seán Lemass' in, editor(s)Melania Terrazas Gallego , Trauma and Identity in Contemporary Irish Culture , Berlin, Peter Lang, 2020, pp135 - 149, [Eunan O'Halpin]
The Brigade Activity Reports in Context in, editor(s)Cecile Gordon , The Military Service Pensions Collection: the Brigade Activity Reports, Dublin, Department of Defence, 2019, pp28 - 43, [Eunan O'Halpin]
Eunan O'Halpin, PJ Moloney's 1916 Journal and an Introduction, Tipperary Historical Journal 2019, 2019, p132 - 153
The Brigade Activity Reports in Context in, editor(s)Cecile Gordon , The Brigade Activity Reports in Context in, The Military Service Pensions Collection: the Brigade Activity Reports , Dublin, Department of Defence, 2019, pp28 - 43, [Eunan O'Halpin]
Eunan O'Halpin, 'No singing and dancing': reassessing border security co-operation, 1969-1998, Research Seminar in Contemporary Irish History, Long Room Hub, TCD, 11 March 2015
Eunan O'Halpin, German Intrigues in Ireland and Afghanistan during the First World War, Recent Research on World War One and the Role of the Irish in Gallipoli, Koc University, Instanbul, Turkey, 16 April 2015
Eunan O'Halpin, The Fate of Indigenous and Soviet Central Asian Jews in Afghanistan, 1933-1945, British Jewish History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London, 28 October 2014
Eunan O'Halpin, Afghanistan and the belligerents, 1939-1945: intelligence competition and cooperation in a neutral state, Study Group on Intelligence meeting, Royal United Services Institution, Whitehall, London, 6 February 2015
Research Expertise
Description
Irish and British 20th century political and administrative history; unnatural infant death in Ireland (with Dr Ciara Breathanch, University of Limerick); intelligence history; international relations, with particular reference to intelligence and terrorism in the twentieth century; belligerent competition in Afghanistan during the Second World War; British policy towards Afghan and Central Asian Jewish communities, 1933-47Projects
- Title
- Afghanistan and the Second World War
- Summary
- This project has grown considerably in scope over the last six years. The overall aim remains to explore the impact of the war on Afghanistan, and to examine the means by which she avoided being drawn into the conflict despite her proximity to key belligerents - British India, and the Soviet Union - and the activities and plans of the Axis powers. It is based largely on research in British and American government records, which include a large amount of intercepted communications of the Afghan and other neutral and Axis states, as well as on significant private collections. Research in the National Archives of India and the Nehru Memorial Library in 2012 has enabled the further development of the project. It also opened up an unexpected vein of inquiry into the fate of Jews in Afghanistan, resulting in an article in Holocaust and Genocide Studies 30, no. 2 (Fall, 2016), pp. 298-327, and a number of entries with Dr Sara Koplik have been accepted for the revised Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World (1st ed., Brill, 2010). Anarticle on British Cryptanalyis and China, 1937-1945, has recently appeared in Twentieth Century China 42, no. 2, May 2017, pp. 198-212. Further papers are in preparation dealing with Axis and with British intelligence concerning Afghanistan, and with Soviet communications concerning the USSR's southern frontiers in the 1930s.
- Funding Agency
- TCD Arts and Social Sciences Benefactions Fund; IIIS
- Date From
- 2006
- Date To
- 2020
- Title
- British Intelligence and the Northern Ireland crisis, 1965-98
- Summary
- This project explores explore the role of intelligence in British and Irish management of the Northern Ireland crisis from 1969 onwards. It also looks at how the two states negotiated understandings on security issues, on how their dealings in this delicate area were managed, and on how such dealings were managed at the professional interagency level as well as at the top intergovernmental table. The study also explores the extent to which security and terrorism issues were reflected in the diplomatic activities of both governments in the United States, as well as probing the changing perspective of successive American governments on the broader Northern Ireland issue. Drawing largely on British, Irish and American official records, it looks both at the highest levels of assessment and task setting in Whitehall, and at the operational performance of intelligence gatherers and assessors. It addresses questions arising from problems of leakage and collusion between the security forces and paramilitary groups, and issues surrounding the interrogation regime for prisoners and detainees. The latter problems were particularly significant in terms of Anglo-Irish relations, as London felt that Dublin played these issues up gratuitously. I hope to complete a monograph based on this research in 2011.
- Funding Agency
- IRCHSS
- Date From
- 1 Dec. 2007
- Date To
- 30 June 2010
- Title
- The Dead of the Irish Revolution
- Summary
- This project aims to establish who died where and in what circumstances and at who's hands as a result of Irish political violence between 1912 and 1923. The first volume arising from the project, by Eunan O'Halpin and Dr Daithi O Corrain, covering the years 1917 to 1921, was published by Yale University Press in October 2020.
- Funding Agency
- IRCHSS
- Date From
- Nov 2003
- Date To
- Nov. 2020
Recognition
Representations
Member, National Archives Advisory Council
Member, Katherine Kavanagh Trust
Secretary, Military Heritage of Ireland Trust
Department of Justice Archives Advisory Group
Member, Royal Irish Academ National Committee for History, since 1989 (Chairman, 2001-3) Member, Royal Irish Academy National Committee for the Study of International Relations, since 1993 (Chairman, 1996-99)
Military Service Pensions Project Academic Advisory Board
Member, Barristers' Professional Conduct Appeals Board
Member, Expert Advisory Group on Commemorations
Member, Board of Trinity College
Member, Barristers Professional Conduct Appeals Board
Royal Irish Academy Committe for Historical Studies
Frequent contributor on historical and current affairs on RTE Radio 1 and Newstalk106, and occasionally on British, European and American broadcast media.
Awards and Honours
Albert College Award for Research, Dublin City University
Memberships
Member, Royal Irish Academy