Donal McAnallen

Dónal McAnallen (1978-) is Library and Archives Manager for National Museums NI, an historian and author. He graduated with a BA from Queen's University Belfast and a PhD from NUI Galway. He has authored The Cups that Cheered: A History of the Sigerson, Fitzgibbon and Higher Education Gaelic Games (Collins Press, 2012), and Forgotten Gaelic Volunteers: Ulster GAA Members who fought in World War One (2019). He also edited (with David Hassan and Roddy Hegarty) The Evolution of the GAA (2009); and Reflections on the Revolution in the North (2016), both based on conferences held at the Cardinal Ó Fiaich Library and Archive, Armagh. The Pursuit of Perfection (Penguin Ireland, 2017) is a deeply personal memoir of his late brother Cormac, an All-Ireland winning Gaelic footballer who died suddenly in 2004, at the age of 24.