Hiram Morgan is Senior Lecturer and Head of the School of History at University College Cork. He holds a PhD from Cambridge University and was previously a fellow at the Institute of Irish Studies, QUB. He is author of Tyrone’s rebellion (1993) and has edited Political ideology in Ireland, 1541-1641 (1999), Information, media and power through the ages (2001) and The battle of Kinsale (2004). More recently he has brought out scholarly texts: Great deeds in Ireland (2013) and Ireland 1518 (2015) He was a founder in 1992 of History Ireland and its co-editor until 2002. He is director of CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts of Ireland, the largest Irish Studies website in the world. He is working on a biography of Hugh O’Neill, earl of Tyrone, for publication by the Royal Irish Academy.