The Home Rule Crisis 1912-14

List of Contributors

Jonathan Bardon was born and educated in Dublin but has spent almost all of his adult life in Belfast, retiring from Queen's University in 2008. His most recent book is The Plantation of Ulster (2011). His other publications include: Belfast: an illustrated history (1982); Dublin: a thousand years of Wood Quay (1984); A History of Ulster (1992, updated 2001); and A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes (2008). He has written historical documentaries for Channel 4 and the BBC, including 48 twenty-minute and 360 five-minute dramatised programmes on the history of Ireland for BBC Radio Ulster.

Tom Bartlett is professor of Irish history at the University of Aberdeen. He formerly worked at University College Dublin where he was professor of modern Irish history, and in the National University of Ireland, Galway. His most recent publication is Ireland: a history (Cambridge, 2010).

Eugenio Biagini is an alumnus of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and is currently professor of modern and contemporary history at the University of Cambridge and a college fellow of Sidney Sussex College. He first came to Sidney in 1985-6 as a visiting scholar, before becoming a junior research fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, in 1987. Having spent two years in the Department of History of Newcastle University, he became an assistant professor of modern British history at Princeton. He came back to Cambridge, to Robinson College, in 1996, becoming a university lecturer in 1998, a reader in 2000 and a professor in 2011. He returned to Sidney in 2008. He has written on Gladstonian liberalism, the Italian Risorgimento and anti-fascism in the 1940s. His current research interests include various aspects of Irish and British history since the 1910s, with particular reference to democracy, civil rights and religious minorities.

Tim Bowman was born and raised in Bangor, County Down. He took his first degree from Queen's University, Belfast in 1995 and completed his PhD in 1999, in the now sadly defunct Department of History at the University of Luton (now Bedfordshire) under the supervision of Professor Ian F. W. Beckett. He held lecturing posts at Queen's University, Belfast, the University of Durham and King's College London (based at the Joint Services Command and Staff College) before going to Kent in 2005. To date his research has considered aspects of the British Army in the Great War and the Ulster Volunteer Force of 1910-22. He is currently completing a co-authored book (with Professor Mark Connelly) concerning the Edwardian British Army and will then turn his attention to a co-authored work (with Professors Ian Beckett and Mark Connelly) concerning the British Army in the Great War. His next major research project will concern the Irish soldier in the British Army c. 1793-1968.

Kurt Bullock is an associate professor of English at Grand Valley State University, an institution of 25,000 students located in south-west Michigan. He teaches contemporary literature and theory, including undergraduate and graduate courses on Irish literature. His articles have appeared in New Hibernia Review and American Drama, among other journals.

Ian Cawood is head of history at Newman University College in Birmingham. He leads Newman's undergraduate modules on modern British history as well as a fieldwork module focusing on the English cathedral. His research interests include the identity, culture and political structure of Liberal Unionism, 1886-1912, and regional history, including (but not exclusively) that of the English West Midlands. He is the author of The Liberal Unionist Party: a history (Ibtauris, 2012).

Dominick Chilcott went to school at St Joseph's College, Ipswich (De La Salle brothers), spent a year in the Royal Navy as a midshipman, and read philosophy and theology in Oxford University. He is a career diplomat who joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office thirty years ago. He has served as high commissioner to Sri Lanka and Maldives (2006-7), deputy ambassador to the United States (2008-11), ambassador to Iran (for six weeks only in late 2011 - the posting was ended by the attack on the embassy), and is now ambassador to Ireland. In addition to those postings, Dominick has served in Ankara (1985-8), Lisbon (1993-5) and at the UK's mission to the European Union in Brussels (1998-2002). Between overseas assignments, he has worked in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London on European, African and Middle Eastern affairs. He has been a private secretary to two foreign secretaries, Sir Malcolm Rifkind and the late Robin Cook. He was director of the Iran Policy Unit in 2003 and director for bilateral relations with European countries from 2003 to 2006.

Pauline Collombier-Lakeman was awarded her PhD on the topic of Le discours des leaders du nationalisme constitutionnel irlandais sur l'autonomie de l'Irlande: utopies politiques et mythes identitaires from the Université Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle in 2007. Her current research work is focused on the relationship between Ireland and the British Empire. She has taught nineteenth- and twentieth-century history of the British Isles as well as English language at the following universities: Paris 3, Le Mans, Nantes and lately Strasbourg, where she was appointed maître de conférences (lecturer) in 2009. Recent publications include 'Ireland and the empire: the ambivalence of Irish constitutional nationalism', Radical History Review, no. 104 (2009), pp. 57-76.

Erica S. Doherty is a third-year PhD student in history at Queen's University, Belfast.

Gabriel Doherty is a college lecturer in modern Irish history in the School of History, University College Cork.

James Doherty is a second-year PhD student at the University of Southampton. The title of his thesis is 'The Liberals and the Irish Parliamentary Party, 1910-14'.

Laurence Kirkpatrick is Professor of Church History in the Institute of Theology at Queen's University, Belfast. His specialist research covers several areas of church history, ranging from the Patristic era to the present century. He has conducted field research in China and India relating to Irish Presbyterian missions, in Manchuria and Gujarat respectively. He has also researched nineteenth-century Presbyterian activity in Connacht and First World War battlefields. His publications include Presbyterians in Ireland (Booklink, 2006) and Made in China - but not as you know it (Manleys, 2008), and he was a co-editor of John Calvin: reflections of a reformer (Union, 2009). He has contributed to numerous television documentaries and was historical consultant to the acclaimed 'An independent people', the BBC Northern Ireland series on Irish Presbyterianism first broadcast in 2013.

Martin Mansergh spent seven years in the Departments of Foreign Affairs and the Taoiseach before resigning in 1981 to take up the position of political and Northern Ireland advisor to the then leader of Fianna Fáil, Charles Haughey (a position he subsequently held under Albert Reynolds and Bertie Ahern). The son of prominent historian Nicholas Mansergh, he is a distinguished historian in his own right, having published on a wide variety of topics relating, in particular, to modern Irish history. He is currently a member of the Government's Advisory Group on Commemorations.

Conor Mulvagh has recently completed a PhD entitled 'Sit, act, and vote: the political evolution of the Irish Parliamentary Party at Westminster, 1900-1918' under the supervision of Professors Diarmaid Ferriter and Michael Laffan. He completed an MPhil in modern Irish history (Trinity College Dublin) in 2008, where his thesis considered the interactions between John Redmond and the Roman Catholic hierarchy. He currently lectures on Northern Nationalism (1920-1998) and the 1916 Rising at University College Dublin. His research interests include constitutional nationalism, the Irish Volunteers, the Ulster crisis and partition, and the organisation of political parties.

Daithí Ó Corráin is a lecturer in history at St Patrick's College, Drumcondra (a college of Dublin City University). He has undertaken extensive research in the following areas: Irish political violence; the Irish revolution, 1912-23; north-south relations; the Northern Ireland troubles; church-state relations; Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s; and ecumenism. He is the author of Rendering to God and Caesar: the Irish churches and the two states in Ireland, 1949-73 (Manchester, 2006) and co-author (with Eunan O'Halpin) of The Dead of the Irish Revolution, 1916-21, which will be published by Yale University Press. He is editor, with Professor Marian Lyons (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), of the 'Irish Revolution, 1912-23' series, published by Four Courts Press. The first volume, on Sligo, was published in November 2012. He is currently working on a history of the Irish Volunteers from 1913 to 1918.

John O'Donovan completed his master's thesis at University College Cork on 'William O'Brien and the United Irish League in Cork' in 2012. His major research interests include Cork 1890-1912, the life and career of D. D. Sheehan, the United Irish League, the All-for-Ireland League and Irish nationalism 1890-1922. His publications include 'Political violence in Cork 1910: case studies of riots in Newmarket and Bantry', History Studies, vol. 12 (2011); 'Nationalist political conflict in Cork, 1910', Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, vol. 117 (2012); and...