About the Author

Dr John M. Regan studied history and politics at Magee College, University of Ulster, before completing a doctorate in Modern Irish History at Queen’s University Belfast in 1994. He was the first Irish Government Scholar at Hertford College Oxford, and later held research fellowships at Wolfson College Oxford and the University of Exeter. He published The Irish Counter-Revolution 1921-36 in 1999, and now lectures in British and Irish history at the University of Dundee.