Dr Dermot Keogh is Professor of History at University College Cork. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy, a Fulbright Professor and a research fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC. He is the co-editor of Ireland in the 1950s, The Lost Decade, Ireland in World War Two, 1916 – The Long Revolution and The Making of the Irish Constitution, 1937. Gabriel Doherty is a lecturer in the department of History, University College Cork. His principal specialities are the history of modern Ireland and the history of crime and punishment. He is the co-editor of De Valera’s Ireland and 1916 – The Long Revolution.