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1. Foreword by Prof. Lord Paul Bew
2. James Brown Armour: Irish Presbyterian minister and Home Ruler revisited – the case for a re-examination of Armour and his role - RICHARD McMINN
3. Friends in Fleet Street: British press support for Ulster’s anti-Home Rule campaign, 1912–14 - ALAN F. PARKINSON
4. Beyond the Somme: Northern Ireland’s Great War ex-servicemen - RICHARD S. GRAYSON
5. The Easter Rising and Belfast republicanism - JIM McDERMOTT
6. Ulster unionism and the Irish Convention, 1917–18 - N.C. FLEMING
7. Combating the ‘flu’: Regional responses to the 1918–19 influenza pandemic in Ulster - PATRICIA MARSH
8. Rev. John Redmond, vicar of Ballymacarrett: Army chaplain, peace maker and temperance advocate - BRIAN M. WALKER
9. The USC and the formation of the Northern Ireland state, 1920–22 - BRIAN BARTON
10. The life and career of Denis Henry (1864–1925): An Irish political misfit: Catholic unionist politician and first Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland - ÉAMON PHOENIX
11. The Swanzy riots: Lisburn, 1920 - CHRISTOPHER MAGILL
12. Perceptions of the king’s visit to Belfast, 22 June 1921 - HEATHER JONES
13. Lady Cecil Craigavon and the reclamation of history - DIANE URQUHART
14. The Boundary Commission and border minorities - CORMAC MOORE

Dr Alan F. Parkinson is a former Senior Lecturer in History and Education at London South Bank University. He is author of A Difficult Birth: the Early Years of Northern Ireland, 1920–5 (2020).

Brian M. Walker is Professor Emeritus of Irish Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. He is author of Irish History Matters: Politics, Identities and Commemoration (2019).

DR BRIAN BARTON taught at the College of Business Studies, Belfast, and the Open University. He is author of The Belfast Blitz: The City in the War Years (2015) and The Secret Court Martials: Records of the Easter Rising (2010).

LORD PAUL BEW is Professor Emeritus of Irish Politics at Queen’s University Belfast, and an independent cross-bench peer in the House of Lords. His publications include Ireland: The Politics of Enmity, 1789–2006 (2010) and Ancestral Voices in Irish Politics: Judging Dillon and Parnell (2023).

N.C. FLEMING is Professor of Modern History, University of Worcester. He is editor of Aristocracy, Democracy and Dictatorship: The Political Papers of the Seventh Marquess of Londonderry (2022) and author (with J.H. Murphy) of Ireland and Partition: Contexts and Consequences (2021).

PROFESSOR RICHARD S. GRAYSON is Head of the School of Education, Humanities and Languages at Oxford Brookes University. His previous publications include Belfast Boys: How Unionists and Nationalists Died Together in the First World War (2009) and Dublin’s Great Wars: The First World War, the Easter Rising and the Irish Revolution (2018).

HEATHER JONES is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at University College London. She is author of For King and Country: The British Monarchy and the First World War (2021) and Violence Against Prisoners of War: Britain, France and Germany, 1914–1920 (2011).

DR CHRISTOPHER MAGILL was awarded a PhD by Queen’s University Belfast in 2014. He is author of Political Conflict in East Ulster, 1920–22: Revolution & Reprisal (2020). His research interests include loyalist violence during the Irish revolution and the formative years of the Ulster Special Constabulary.

DR PATRICIA MARSH is currently working as an archivist in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. She is author of The Spanish Flu in Ireland: A Socio-Economic Shock to Ireland, 1918–1919 (2021).

JIM MCDERMOTT is a former school history teacher and has also taught history at Stranmillis University College, Belfast. He is the author of Northern Divisions: The Old IRA & the Belfast Pogroms 1920–22 (2001).

DR RICHARD MCMINN was Principal of Stranmillis University College, Belfast, where he also taught history. His publications include Against the Tide: J.B. Armour, Irish Presbyterian Minister and Home Ruler (1985). Richard passed away in November 2023.

DR CORMAC MOORE is an historian-in-residence with Dublin City Council. He is author of Birth of the Border: The Impact of Partition in Ireland (2019) and Laois: The Irish Revolution, 1912–23 (2023).

DR ÉAMON PHOENIX was a Principal Lecturer in History at Stranmillis University College, Belfast. His publications include Northern Nationalism: Nationalist Politics, Partition and the Catholic Minority in Northern Ireland 1890–1940 (1994). He died in November 2022.

DIANE URQUHART is Professor of Gender History at Queen’s University Belfast. She is author of Irish Divorce: A History (2020) and The Ladies of Londonderry: Women and Political Patronage, 1800–1959 (2007).