Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Anne Dolan and Catriona Crowe (eds), 'A very hard struggle': lives in the Military Service Pensions Collection, Dublin, Department of Defence, 2023, 1 - 287pp
Anne Dolan, 'I have lost a lot by fighting for my country' reckoning with the Irish revolution, Contemporary European History, 2023, p18
Introduction in, editor(s)Anne Dolan & Catriona Crowe , 'A very hard struggle': lives in the Military Service Pensions Collection, Dublin, Department of Defence, 2023, pp12 - 21, [Anne Dolan]
Anne Dolan William Murphy, Days in the life: reading the Michael Collins diaries 1918-1922, first, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 2022, 1 - 160pp
7 October 1922 - The killing of teenagers Eamonn Hughes, Brendan Holohan and Joseph Rogers: trauma and the legacy of violence' in, editor(s)Darragh Gannon & Fearghal McGarry , Ireland 1922: independence, partition, civil war, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 2022, pp267 - 272, [Anne Dolan]
'Worrying away at the Irish revolution' in, editor(s)The President of Ireland , Machnamh 100: President of Ireland centenary reflections volume 1, Dublin, Office of the President of Ireland, 2021, pp50 - 54, [Anne Dolan]
'Hardly worth your while': the pursuit of happiness in twentieth-century Ireland? in, editor(s)Mary Hatfield , Happiness in Nineteenth-Century Ireland, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2021, pp215 - 231, [Anne Dolan]
Anne Dolan, 'Death in the archives: witnessing war in Ireland, 1919-1921', Past and Present, 253, (1), 2021, p271 - 300
Anne Dolan, 'Killing in "the good old Irish fashion"? Irish revolutionary violence in context', Irish Historical Studies, 44, (165), 2020, p11 - 24
Anne Dolan, '"All we want is your best": the Brigade Committees and the struggles to defy and to comply' in, editor(s)Cécile Gordon , The Military Service (1916-1923) Pensions Collection: the Brigade Activity Reports, Dublin, Department of Defence, 2019, pp64 - 83, [Anne Dolan]
Anne Dolan, 'Politics, Economy and Society in the Irish Free State, 1922-1939' in, editor(s)Thomas Bartlett , The Cambridge History of Ireland Volume 4: 1880 to the present, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press , 2018, pp323 - 348, [Anne Dolan]
Anne Dolan and William Murphy, Michael Collins: the man and the revolution, Cork, Collins Press, 2018
'Spies and informers beware...' in, editor(s)Diarmaid Ferriter & Susannah Riordan , Years of turbulence: the Irish revolution and its aftermath in honour of Michael Laffan, Dublin, UCD Press, 2015, pp157 - 172, [Anne Dolan]
Anne Dolan, Ciaran Brady, Ciarán Wallace, 'Irish lives in war and revolution: exploring Ireland's history 1912-1923', London & Dublin, Futurelearn, 2014, -
Divisions and divisions and divisions: who to commemorate? in, editor(s)John Horne & Edward Madigan , Towards commemoration: Ireland in war and revolution 1912-1923, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 2013, pp145 - 153, [Anne Dolan]
'The shadow of a great fear': terror and counter-terror in Ireland in, editor(s)David Fitzpatrick , Terror in Ireland, 1916-23: Trinity History Workshop, Dublin, Lilliput Press, 2012, pp26 - 38, [Anne Dolan]
The British culture of paramilitary violence in the Irish war of independence in, editor(s)John Horne & Robert Gerwarth , War in peace: paramilitary violence in Europe after the Great War, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, pp200 - 215, [Anne Dolan]
'It is not possible for this history to be truthful...' in, editor(s)Katie Holmes & Stuart Ward , Exhuming passions: the pressure of the past in Ireland and Australia, Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 2011, pp19 - 36, [Anne Dolan]
Ending war in a 'sportsmanlike manner': the milestone of revolution, 1919-23 in, editor(s)Thomas Hachey , Turning points in twentieth century Irish history, Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 2011, pp21 - 38, [Anne Dolan]
Embodying the memory of war and civil war in, editor(s)Oona Frawley , Memory Ireland: volume 1 history and modernity, Syracuse, New York, Syracuse University Press, 2011, pp129 - 141, [Anne Dolan]
Hugh Alexander, Michael Alexander, Robert Stawell Ball, Peter Barnes, Richard Barrett, Dominic Behan, Peter Birch, Dion Lardner Boucicault, Hilary Boyle, Harry Brogan, Michael Browne, Frank Burke, Alfred Byrne, Edward Byrne, John Clancy, Joseph Clarke, Patrick Clune, Thomas Collins, Edward Coyne, John Creagh, Michael Harty, Charles Kelly, Thomas Lawlor, Noel Lemass, John Leslie, Patrick McGeown, Dominic McGlinchey, Muriel MacSwiney, Pádraig Ó Máille, Micheál Ó Móráin, Muiris Ó Súilleabháin, Kathleen O'Connell, John Ormonde, Maureen O'Sullivan, Margaret Pearse (1878-1968), Margaret Pearse (1857-1932), Mary Brigid Pearse, Noel Purcell, Shelah Richards, Cecil Rochfort, James McGuire, Dictionary of Irish Biography, 9 Volumes, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, [Anne Dolan]
Anne Dolan, Cormac K.H. O'Malley, 'No surrender here!' The civil war papers of Ernie O'Malley, First, Dublin, Lilliput Press, 2007, vi - 625pp
'It might be just as well, perhaps, to forget about poor Emmet' in, editor(s)Anne Dolan, Patrick M. Geoghegan, Darryl Jones , Reinterpreting Emmet: essays on the life and legacy of Robert Emmet, Dublin, UCD Press, 2007, pp196 - 210, [Anne Dolan]
editor(s)Anne Dolan, Patrick M. Geoghegan, Darryl Jones , Reinterpreting Emmet: essays on the life and legacy of Robert Emmet, Dublin, UCD Press, 2007, vii - 258pp
The IRA, intelligence and Bloody Sunday, 1920 in, editor(s)Eunan O'Halpin, Robert Armstrong & Jane Ohlmeyer , Intelligence, Statecraft and International Power Irish Conference of Historians, Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 2006, pp119 - 131, [Anne Dolan]
Anne Dolan, Killing and Bloody Sunday, November 1920, The Historical Journal, 49, (3), 2006, p789 - 810
Anne Dolan, The elephant on Leinster Lawn, Interfaces: image, texte, langage, 23, 2004, p67 - 85
An army of our Fenian dead: republicanism, monuments, and commemoration in, editor(s)Fearghal McGarry , Republicanism in modern Ireland , Dublin, University College Dublin Press, 2003, pp132 - 144, [Anne Dolan]
Anne Dolan, Commemorating the Irish civil war: history and memory, 1923-2000, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 238pp
'Shows and stunts are all the thing now': the revolution remembered, 1923-52 in, editor(s)Joost Augusteijn , The Irish Revolution 1913-1923 , Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2002, pp186 - 202, [Anne Dolan]
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Patrick Pearse in, Trinity Monday memorial discourses, tcd.ie/Secretary/FellowsScholars/discourses/discourses/2016_A%20Dolan%20on%20Padraig%20Pearse.pdf, Trinity College Dublin, 2016, pp1 - 25, [Anne Dolan]
Research Expertise
Projects
- Title
- Witnessing war, making peace: testimonies of revolution and restraint in inter-war Ireland
- Summary
- Despite a war of independence (1919-21) and civil war (1922-23), Ireland"s experience of violence was relatively restrained compared to much of inter-war Europe and it returned to stability remarkably quickly. Eric Hobsbawm noted the Irish Free State as one of only five European states, new or old, where `adequately democratic institutions continued to function" between the wars. What we still do not know is why. This project explains why Ireland was so relatively restrained in its use of violence during and after its revolution, and in doing so, it will establish new paradigms for exploring the history of violence and pioneer the history of a much less considered phenomenon " restraint. To do this it draws on the testimony of those who have been largely overlooked: the bystanders who witnessed violence in Ireland, who first put experiences of violence into words, and who fundamentally shaped what we can know about it now. By listening to the ordinary men and women who lived through Ireland"s wars, the project interrogates how they negotiated their ways from conflict to peace as follows: " Using thousands of inquests and court records this project will undertake the first qualitative analysis of violence and restraint in Ireland, placing the 1912-23 period in the context of violence before and after these years. " Court records, pension records, and compensation claims will allow the project to explore the type of post-conflict societies that emerged from violence, looking at how individuals adapted to and interacted with new institutions as they coped with legacies of violence. " Using the experience of one locality, the project will test how gender, class, economics, the politics of local power and grievances might explain how individuals navigated their ways through conflict and beyond. The aim is to understand how Ireland restrained its wars and made its peace.
- Funding Agency
- Irish Research Council
- Date From
- December 2023
- Date To
- December 2027
Recognition
Memberships
Secretary, Irish Historical Society