Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public lecture/debate/seminar
Description
“Friends of Soviet Russia or Satan’s dark agents? Anti-communism as culture in 1930s Ireland”
Professor Fearghal McGarry is Professor of Modern Irish History at Queen’s University Belfast and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. His recent research has focused on the revolutionary era, particularly the Easter Rising, and he has published widely on politics in independent Ireland, particularly republicanism and radical political memory. An active public historian, he was involved in a number of major commemorative projects during the recent Decade of Centenaries. His publications include The Abbey Rebels of 1916: A Lost Revolution (2015) and The Rising. Ireland: Easter 1916 (2010). Most recently he has co-edited Ireland 1922: Independence, Partition and Civil War (2022) and The Irish Revolution: A Global History (2022). He is currently writing a study of inter-war Irish cultural anxieties about modernity.