Timothy G. McMahon is Associate Professor of History at Marquette University in Milwaukee, USA. A social historian of modern Ireland and the British Empire, McMahon is the author of Grand Opportunity: The Gaelic Revival and Irish Society, 1893-1910 (2008) and Vice President of the American Conference for Irish Studies. Michael de Nie is Professor of History at the University of ... Read moreWest Georgia, USA. He is author of The Eternal Paddy: Irish Identity and the British Press, 1798-1882 (2004), and co-editor (with Karen Steele and Sean Farrell, respectively) of Ireland and the New Journalism (2014) and Power and Popular Culture in Modern Ireland: Essays in Honor of James S. Donnelly, Jr. (2010). Paul A. Townend is History Department Chair at University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA.  His first book, Father Mathew, Temperance and Irish Identity, won the American Conference on Irish Studies James Donnelly award in 2003. He has published articles in the New Hibernia Review, Catholic Historical Review, Eire/Ireland, and Past and Present and his new book, Anti-Imperialism and the Irish National Movement, is forthcoming. Show Less