Anne Dolan is a Professor in the Department of History, Trinity College Dublin.  She is author of Commemorating the Irish Civil War: history and memory 1923-2000 (2003), and, with William Murphy, Michael Collins: the man and the revolution (2018), and Days in the life: reading the Michael Collins diaries, 1918-1922 (2022).  Her most recent publication, ‘A very hard struggle’: lives in the Military Service Pensions Collection (2023) was co-edited with Catriona Crowe.  She is Principal Investigator of Witnessing War, Making Peace: Testimonies of Revolution and Restraint in Inter-War Ireland.

Susan Byrne completed her PhD in 2024 and her research, which was funded by the IRC, examines women’s experience of the Free State justice system, 1922-1947 and how gender impacted their experience as victims or perpetrators.  ‘“Keeping company with the enemy”: gender and sexual violence against women during the Irish War of Independence and Civil War, 1919-1923’, an article based on her MA thesis, was published by Women’s History Review in 2021.  She also contributed to the essay collection, ‘A very hard struggle’: lives in the Military Service Pensions Collection edited by Anne Dolan and Catriona Crowe for the Military Archives of Ireland.

Anna Devlin completed her IRC-funded doctoral research ‘Imagining Ireland’s self-governed economic future, 1893-1923’, supervised by Professor Anne Dolan, in 2025. ‘Irish Provisional Government, 1922: a case study of economic policymaking in a new state’ was published in Irish Political Studies in 2024. ‘Protection versus Free Trade in the Free State Era: The Finance Attitude’ with Professor Frank Barry in Irish Economic and Social History was based on her undergraduate research. She has an MPhil in Modern Irish History and a B.A. in History, both from TCD. Previously, she worked as a film/TV producer and prior to that in strategic management consultancy and business development. Anna also has an M.B.A. from UCD and a B.A. B.A.I. from TCD.

Gregory Walls is a PhD student on the Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland-funded Witnessing War, Making Peace project.  His current research considers post-conflict lives and how the nature of violence evolved, ebbed and flowed in the move from war to peace during the 1920s and 1930s in Ireland.  Gregory is part of the National Archives of Ireland’s 1926 Census exhibition and public engagement programme as social historian and researcher.  He was also a researcher on the NAI’s 2024 Society & State: Ireland Through Its Records exhibition.