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Acknowledgements

I am very grateful for the professional support of the staff at a number of libraries and institutions in Ireland and the United States: the Dublin City Library, Irish Studies Section, at Pearse Street; Tamiment Library, New York University; the New York Public Library; the National Library of Ireland; and University College Dublin Archives. The digitised archives at the Bureau of Military History, Cathal Brugha Barracks, Dublin, and Villanova University have been invaluable.

At Irish Academic Press, Conor Graham and Fiona Dunne are exceptionally supportive and a pleasure to work with. I am indebted to friends and fellow historians, Brian Hanley, John Cunningham, Tony Varley and Martin O’Donoghue for sharing their knowledge of Irish republicanism. My thanks to Luke Callinan for his help with translation. For his unstinting support, I will always be very grateful to my friend, Lorcan Collins. I am very thankful to Seona MacReamoinn, Alessandra Nania and everyone at the University of Minnesota, Dublin Programme, for their friendship and support. Marie Mannion, heritage officer at Galway County Council, continues to show what local authorities can achieve in regard to public history. Mary Harris and Dan Carey at NUI Galway have been most supportive over the last number of years. To my parents and to the extended Meagher family, New York, I am most thankful. I am grateful to my wife, Meredith, for putting up with all of this.

Conor McNamara

Athenry, Co. Galway

April 2019