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Date |
| Member, National Archives Advisory Council |
2002-07 |
| Member, Katherine Kavanagh Trust |
Since 1998 |
| Secretary, Military Heritage of Ireland Trust |
2000-5 |
| Department of Justice Archives Advisory Group |
2006 |
| Member, Royal Irish Academ National Committee for History, since 1989 (Chairman, 2001-3)
Member, Royal Irish Academy National Committee for the Study of International Relations, since 1993 (Chairman, 1996-99)
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| Project title |
Afghanistan and the Second World War |
| Summary |
This project has grown considerably in scope over the last four years. The overall aim remains to explore the impact of the war on Afghanistan, and to examine the means by which she avoided being drawn into the conflict despite her proximity to key belligerents - British India, and the Soviet Union - and the activities and plans of the Axis powers.
It is based largely on research in British and American government records, which include a large amount of intercepted communications of the Afghan and other neutral and Axis states, as well as on significant private collections.
Research in the UK and US in 2009 and 2010, however, has uncovered major new sources and thrown up new themes. I have tracked down the very extensive diaries of two members of the Kabul diplomatic community, and have also found much State Department and related material. The result is that the study I am doing has changed substantially. |
| Funding Agency |
TCD Arts and Social Sciences Benefactions Fund; IIIS |
| Programme |
Personal research |
| Type of Project |
Monograph |
| Date from |
2006 |
| Date to |
2013 |
| Person Months |
40 |
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| Project title |
British Intelligence and the Northern Ireland crisis, 1965-98 |
| Summary |
This project explores explore the role of intelligence in British and Irish management of the Northern Ireland crisis from 1969 onwards. It also looks at how the two states negotiated understandings on security issues, on how their dealings in this delicate area were managed, and on how such dealings were managed at the professional interagency level as well as at the top intergovernmental table. The study also explores the extent to which security and terrorism issues were reflected in the diplomatic activities of both governments in the United States, as well as probing the changing perspective of successive American governments on the broader Northern Ireland issue.
Drawing largely on British, Irish and American official records, it looks both at the highest levels of assessment and task setting in Whitehall, and at the operational performance of intelligence gatherers and assessors. It addresses questions arising from problems of leakage and collusion between the security forces and paramilitary groups, and issues surrounding the interrogation regime for prisoners and detainees. The latter problems were particularly significant in terms of Anglo-Irish relations, as London felt that Dublin played these issues up gratuitously.
I hope to complete a monograph based on this research in 2011. |
| Funding Agency |
IRCHSS |
| Programme |
Small Projects |
| Type of Project |
Individual |
| Date from |
1 Dec. 2007 |
| Date to |
30 June 2010 |
| Person Months |
20 |
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| Project title |
The Dead of the Irish Revolution |
| Summary |
This project aims to establish who died where and in what circumstances and at who's hands as a result of Irish political violence between 1912 and 1923.
The first volume arising from the project, by Eunan O'Halpin and Dr Daithi O Corrain, covering the years 1917 to 1921, will be published by Yale University Press in 2011. |
| Funding Agency |
IRCHSS |
| Programme |
Major Projects |
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| Date from |
Nov 2003 |
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| Person Months |
40 |
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| Eunan O'Halpin, Spying on Ireland: British intelligence and Irish neutrality during the second world war, 1st, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008, vi - 335pp |
O'Halpin E., Defending Ireland: the Irish state and its enemies since 1922, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999
Notes: [paperback ed., 2000] |
| O'Halpin E., Aspects of intelligence, The Irish Sword, xix, 1995, p57 - 65 |
| O'Halpin E, Head of the civil service: a study of Sir Warren Fisher, London, Routledge, 1989 |
| O'Halpin E, The decline of the union: British government in Ireland, 1892-1920, Dublin and Syracuse, Gill and Macmillan, Syracuse University Press, 1987 |
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