Eunan O Halpin
Professor
Contemporary Irish History
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Teaching 2016-17 In Michaelmas Term 2016/17, MPhil module HI7123 (Exploring the Irish Civil War). On research leave in Hilary Term 2017. Research Supervision Since coming to Trinity in 2000 I have supervised twenty two PhDs (including three co-supervised), to completion. I currently supervise seven PhD candidates (including three co-supervised with colleagues). Post-doctoral Fellows I have supervised or mentored twelve post-doctoral fellows (eight funded by the IRCHSS, four by other sponsors). My current IRC post-doctoral fellow (2016-17) is Dr Sean Gannon.
Research Interest
Twentieth century Irish and British political, administrative and military history; intelligence and security studies; Afghanistan and the Second World War
Publications
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MI5 and Ireland, 1939-1945: the official history (Dublin, 2002)
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with Robert Armstrong and Jane Ohlmeyer (eds.)) Intelligence, Statecraft and International Power (Dublin, 2006
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The Decline of the Union: British government in Ireland, 1892-1920 (Dublin, 1987)
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Head of the Civil Service: a study of Sir Warren Fisher (London, 1989
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Defending Ireland: the Irish state and its enemies since 1922 (Oxford, 1999)
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with Michael Kennedy, Ireland and the Council of Europe: from isolation towards integration (Strasbourg, 2000)
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Spying on Ireland: British intelligence and Irish neutrality during the second world war (Oxford, 2008)
