Gabriel Doherty is a College Lecturer in the School of History, University College Cork, with a research specialism in the field of the 'revolutionary decade' in modern Irish history, 1912-23. He is the co-ordinator of the on-going programme of events within the School of History in UCC to mark the successive centenaries of that decade. He is also a member of the academic Advisory Group to the Irish Government on policy towards the 'decade of centenaries.'