Emmet O'Connor Author & Editor

Emmet O'Connor completed a BA in University College, Galway in 1977, an MA in Galway in 1979 and a PhD at St John's College, Cambridge in 1984. Since 1985 he has lectured in the School of History in Ulster University. Between 1983 and 2001 he co-edited Soother, and is an honorary president of the Irish Labour History Society. He has published widely on labour history, including Reds and the Green: Ireland, Russia, and the Communist Internationals, 1919-43 (UCD Press, 2002) and A Labour History of Ireland, 1824- 2000 (UCD Press, 2011). At present he is working on a study of the Irish in the Spanish Civil War.