Fergus Robson Editor

Fergus Robson was Associate Director of the Centre for War Studies and currently lectures on Napoleonic Europe in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He is a specialist on resistance and rebellion during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Empire. His recent work on French soldiers’ cultural encounters with Italians and Egyptians complements his interest in the contested creation of national identities and states.
Brian Hughes is NUI Research Fellow in the Humanities at An Foras Feasa, Maynooth University, Ireland and a historian of modern Ireland, specialising in civilian and grassroots experiences of conflict in revolutionary Ireland. His most recent book is Defying the IRA? Intimidation, Coercion, and Communities during the Irish Revolution (2016).