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Dr John Gibney is the Assistant Editor with the RIA’s Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series and is the co-author (with Kate O’Malley) of ‘The Handover: Dublin Castle and the British withdrawal from Ireland, 1922’ (Royal Irish Academy). He was centrally involved in the development of the National Archives’ exhibition on the Anglo-Irish Treaty.

Dr. DAVID MCCULLAGH  Broadcaster Dr David McCullagh is an anchor presenter of the RTE news flagship, The Six-One News, and a former Political Correspondent.  He has a PhD in politics from University College Dublin and is the author of five books on Irish history, including ‘De Valera Rise’ and ‘De Valera Rule’, the acclaimed two-volume reassessment of Eamon de Valera, the single most consequential Irish figure of the twentieth century as a leader of the Easter Rising, figurehead of the anti-treaty rebels during the Civil War and later, founder of Fianna Fail and President of Ireland