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Joan Allen is Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at Newcastle University. Her most recent publications include Joseph Cowen and popular radicalism on Tyneside, 18191900 (Monmouth, 2007), and Joan Allen and Richard C. Allen (eds), Faith of our fathers: popular culture and belief in post-Reformation England, Ireland and Wales (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, 2009). She has served as Secretary and Vice Chair of the Society for the Study of Labour History, and is a former editor of Labour History Review.
Stuart C. Aveyard is a Lecturer in Modern British History at Queens University Belfast (QUB). His research interests are in modern British and Irish history, particularly the Northern Ireland conflict and the governance of post-war Britain. In 2011 he completed a doctoral thesis at QUB, entitled No Solution: British government policy in Northern Ireland under Labour, 197479. He is currently converting this into a monograph.
Kevin Bean is a Lecturer in Irish Politics at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool. His research interests include Northern Irish politics, developments in contemporary Irish republicanism, state counter-insurgency strategies and the development of nationalism as a political force in contemporary Europe. He is the author of The new politics of Sinn Fin (Liverpool, 2007). He is a member of the Council of the British Association for Irish Studies, the Board of the European Federation of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies, and the College of Assessors of the ESRC.
Peter Collins is Senior Lecturer in History at St Marys University College, Belfast. He teaches Irish and British history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His doctoral thesis was on the Belfast labour movement before partition. Among his publications are: (ed.), Nationalism and Unionism: conflict in Ireland, 18851921 (Belfast, 1994); Remembering 1798, in Eberhard Bort (ed.), Commemorating Ireland: history, politics, culture (Dublin, 2003); and, most recently, 1932: A case study in polarisation and conflict, in Alan F. Parkinson and amon Phoenix (eds), Conflicts in the north of Ireland, 19002000 (Dublin, 2010).
John Cunningham is a Lecturer in History at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He has written extensively on Irish labour and social history. His publications including Labour in thewest of Ireland: working life and struggle (Belfast, 1995); A town tormented by the sea: Galway, 17901914 (Dublin, 2004); and Unlikely radicals: Irish post-primary teachers and the ASTI, 19092009 (Cork, 2009). He is a founding member of the Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class (ICHLC) at the Moore Institute, NUI Galway.
Aaron Edwards is a Senior Lecturer in Defence and International Affairs at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He is author or editor of several books, including A history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party: democratic socialism and sectarianism (Manchester, 2009); The Northern Ireland troubles (Oxford, 2011); and Defending the realm? The politics of Britains small wars since 1945 (Manchester, 2012). A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Higher Education Academy, his most recent book is entitled Mad Mitchs tribal law: Aden and the end of empire (Edinburgh, 2014).
Ivan Gibbons is Head of Irish Studies, St Marys University College, Twickenham, London. He has written extensively on modern Irish history and politics, and is a former editor of Irish Studies in Britain. He is the author of The British Labour Party and the Establishment of the Irish Free State, 19181924 (London, 2015).
Stephen Howe is Senior Research Fellow in History at the University of Bristol, and co-editor of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. Author of several books on both British and comparative imperial histories, his most recent published work is the edited collection, The new imperial histories reader (London, 2008). His The intellectual consequences of decolonization is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. On Irish history, his work Ireland and empire: colonial legacies in Irish history (Oxford, 2000) has been followed by numerous related essays and articles.
Kevin McNamara was elected to the House of Commons as a Labour MP in January 1966, for the key marginal seat of Hull North, which he retained until his retirement from the House in 2005. He held several key appointments during his political career, including that of Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. In 2007 he completed his PhD at the Institute of Irish Studies at Liverpool University, of which he is an Honorary Fellow. He is the author of The MacBride principles: Irish-American strikes back (Liverpool, 2009).
Laurence Marley is a Lecturer in Modern History at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He has written on aspects of Irish and British radicalism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and is author of Michael Davitt: freelance radical and frondeur (Dublin, 2007). He is co-editor of Saothar: Journal of the Irish Labour History Society.
Mirtn Cathin lectures in modern Irish and European History at the University of Central Lancashire. He is the author of Irish Republicanism in Scotland, 18581916 (Dublin, 2007) and has published on aspects of Derry labour history, including work on the Derry unemployed workers movement and protests in the city in the inter-war period.
Emmet OConnor is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Ulster. He is an honorary president of the Irish Labour History Society and has published widely on labour history, including