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‌Dr Marie Coleman is a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute.  She is principally a historian of the Irish revolution (1916-1923) and is currently engaged on a research project looking at the treatment of revolutionary veterans in post-conflict Ireland after 1922.  She is also involved in a number of committees that are concerned with the commemoration of the Irish revolutionary decade, including the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council’s Round-Table on marking anniversaries and the Universities Ireland centenary committee. 

Recent publications

Books

• 2013 The Irish Revolution, 1916-1923. London: Routledge Seminar Studies in History

• 2009 The Irish Sweep: A history of the Irish hospitals sweepstake, 1930-1987. Dublin: UCD Press

Articles

• 2013 ‘Military service pensions for veterans of the Irish revolution (1916-1923)’, in War in History, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 201-21

• 2012 ‘Military service pensions for civil and public servants in independent Ireland’, in Administration: Journal of the Institute of Public Administration of Ireland, vol. 60, no. 2 (August 2012), pp. 51-61

PhD supervision

First supervisor:

Neil Watt, ‘Women of the big house families and marriage in Ireland, 1860-1920 (in progress)

Paul Hughes, ‘The republican activism of Laurence Ginnell, 1906-1923’ (in progress)

Erica Doherty, ‘T. P. O’Connor and the Irish Parliamentary Party, 1912-14’ (awarded 2012)

Matthew Lewis, ‘Frank Aiken and the Fourth Northern Division: a personal and provincial experience of the Irish revolution, 1916-1923’ (awarded 2011)

Patricia Marsh, ‘The effect of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic on Ulster’ (awarded 2010)