Diarmaid Ferriter Editor & Author

Diarmaid Ferriter is one of Ireland's best-known historians and is Professor of Modern Irish History at UCD. His books include The Transformation of Ireland 1900-2000 (2004), Judging Dev: A Reassessment of the Life and Legacy of Eamon de Valera (2007), Occasions of Sin: Sex and Society in Modern Ireland (2009), and Ambiguous Republic: Ireland in the 1970s (2012). His most recent book is A Nation and Not a Rabble: The Irish Revolution 1 913-23 (2015). He is a regular broadcaster on television and radio and a weekly columnist with the Irish Times. Susannah Riordan is a lecturer in the School of History, University College Dublin. Her main research interests lie in the fields of Irish and British social, religious and intellectual history and in the history of sexuality. She has published numerous articles on these topics and is the co-editor, with Catherine Cox, of Adolescence in Modern Irish History (2015). She is currently the Secretary of the Irish Historical Society.