Conor McNamara

Dr Conor McNamara is the 1916 Scholar in Residence at the Moore Institute at NUI Galway. He has written extensively about the history of the Irish revolution, food shortage and minor famine, and the intersection between criminality and political violence in twentieth century Ireland. In 2011, he was awarded the National Library of Ireland History Studentship. He is the joint editor of The West of Ireland: New Perspectives on the Nineteenth Century (History Press, 2011) and The Easter 1916: A New Illustrated History (Collins Press, 2015).