Síobhra Aiken is a lecturer in the Department of Irish and Celtic Studies at Queen’s University Belfast and has published widely on the social and cultural history of twentieth-century Ireland. A former Fulbright Scholar, her publications include the monograph Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War (Irish Academic Press, 2022) and the edited volumes The Men Will Talk to Me: Ernie O’Malley’s Interviews with the Northern Divisions (Merrion Press, 2018) and An Chuid Eile Díom Féin: Aistí le Máirtín Ó Direáin (Cló Iar-Chonnacht, 2018). She is the 2022 O’Donnell Fellow at the University of Melbourne and is currently researching the emigration of Irish revolutionaries to Australia.

Martin teaches modern British and Irish history at the University of Sheffield. He was awarded his PhD from the University of Galway and has subsequently held appointments at the National Library of Ireland, University of Limerick, and Northumbria University. His book, The Legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Independent Ireland, 1922-1949, won the 2021 NUI Publication Prize in Irish History.

Conor is Lecturer in the School of Sport at Ulster University. His research interests are in health, popular culture, food, and sport.

Kiara is a PhD student and former Departmental Assistant in Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. She is researching Guinness’s Brewery during the First World War, and is specifically looking at the workings of the Brewery and its employees. Her research also addresses how the Brewery helped its employees during this traumatic time. Kiara’s CD-ROM, First World War Irish Soldiers-Their Final Testament was published by Eneclann in 2008. Part of this database was used by the National Archives of Ireland for their website. Kiara also used this database for her MA in the History of the Family in the University of Limerick. For her dissertation she researched a sample of First World War Irish Soldiers married as well as single under the themes, religion, class, economics, gender, and politics.

Tanya Higgins-Carey holds a BA from Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. She is currently researching a PhD in History of Medicine with a particular interest in Charitable Hospitals- finance, management, governance and nursing education and Maternity Care- the early evolution of clinical birthing practices, medical advancements in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology and Women’s Health. Tanya was awarded funding for her research from Mary Immaculate College, where is currently employed as a Tutor. She is an Early Career Member with the Royal Historical Society and sits on the Executive Committees of the Irish Association of Professional Historian’s and the Women’s History Association of Ireland. She has convened several conferences and networking and outreach events and has presented her work widely, nationally and internationally.

Marie is currently a Researcher at the Royal Irish Academy. She was awarded a PhD in early modern history in 2012. Her publications include a monograph, Serving France Ireland and England: Ruvigny, earl of Galway 1648-1720 (Routledge, 2018) and articles on 18th century constitutional conflict, financial networks, Huguenots, and diplomacy.

Dr Dónal Hassett is a Lecturer in the French Department in University College Cork, specialising in colonial history. His first book, Mobilising Memory: The Great War and the Language of Politics in Colonial Algeria, 1918-1939 appeared with Oxford University Press in 2019. He has published widely on the topics of veterancy in the colonial world, the commemoration of Empire, anti-colonialism in the interwar world, and historical connections between Algeria and Ireland.