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{Ireland}; {political history}; {republicanism}; {transnational};
Jack Traynor
Graduate Historian
Ph.D. in History, Trinity College Dublin, 2026.
M.A. in History, Queen’s University Belfast, 2022: distinction.
B.A. in History (Single Honours), Trinity College Dublin, 2021: first-class honours.
2023 & 2024: Teaching Assistant, Trinity College Dublin, HIU12028-202324 (War and Peace in Modern Europe, 1900-The Present)
County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society
Tom Clarke Committee
James E. Todd Prize, Queen’s University Belfast (2022)
Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship (2022)
Universities Ireland History Bursary (2021)
(co-winner) Helga Robinson-Hammerstein Prize, Trinity College Dublin (2021)
Gold Medal, Trinity College Dublin, (2021)
General Eoin O’Duffy: The Political Life of an Irish Firebrand (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2024)
‘A Policy of Deliberate Ambiguity: The Irish Provisional Government’s Shifting Northern Ireland Policy, 1922, War in History (2024).
‘O’Duffy’s “Green Division”: Fact or Fiction?’, History Ireland, 32 (1), (Jan/Feb 2024).
‘The General and His Drivers – Eoin O’Duffy’s Chauffeurs’, History Ireland, 33 (2), (Mar/Apr 2025).
‘Jan Smuts and the Anglo-Irish Truce of July 1921’, 14 February 2023, (https://www.theirishstory.com/2023/02/14/jan-smuts-and-the-anglo-irish-truce-of-july-1921/).
‘Attempts to gain Leon Trotsky asylum in the Irish Free State’, 14 September 2021, (https://www.theirishstory.com/2021/09/14/attempts-to-gain-leon-trotsky-asylum-in-the-irish-free-state/).
‘The Italian arms importation scheme, 1920-1921’, 27 July 2021, (https://www.theirishstory.com/2021/07/27/the-italian-arms-importation-scheme-1920-1921/).
