About the Author

Dermot Keogh is Professor of History and Jean Monnet Emeritus Professor, at University College Cork. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy, twice a Fulbright Professor, a Research Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Centre, Washington DC, a Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Irish Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast, and in 2001/2 a Visiting Professor at the European University Institute, Florence. He is the author of Jack Lynch: His Life and Times, Jews in Twentieth-Century Ireland: Refugees, Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust and The Rise of the Irish Working Class: The Dublin Trade Union Movement and Labour Leadership 1890–1914, among other books on Irish history.