Professor Gavin Foster (Concordia University), ‘Irish Civil War Memory from an Oral History Perspective’

This is the fourth paper in the Limerick History Research Seminar series for 2021–2022, organised by the Departments of History at Mary Immaculate College and the University of Limerick.

Professor Gavin Foster is Associate Professor of modern Irish history in the School of Irish Studies, with a cross-appointment in History, at Concordia University. His research has focused on republican political culture, revolutionary violence, social conflicts, class and social status, labour history, migration, and commemoration/memory themes in the Irish Revolution (1913-23), particularly its final Civil War phase and the early years of the Irish Free State. His publications include The Irish Civil War and Society: Politics, Class and Conflict (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). For information on Professor Fosters's research, see his research profile.