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Tom is an Independent Senator elected to Seanad Éireann, Dublin
senator DR tom clonan
Dr Patrick Maume
Dr CaitrÍona Clear
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Brian is an adjunct associate professor in the history depart-
University, Trinity College Dublin Panel. He is an academic, writer,
and journalist, and as an independent security analyst he provides
defence and intelligence analysis for international broad cas ters.
As an Army Officer (Captain) Tom has direct experience of armed
conflict in Ireland, the Middle East, and former Yugoslavia. One of
Ireland’s foremost whistleblowers, his PhD revealed shocking lev-
els of sexual violence within Ireland’s armed forces. He provides
consultancy on gender-based discrimination and violence. Tom is
one of Ireland’s leading public advocates for citizens with disabili-
ties. He is a parent of four children and is carer for his son Eoghan
who suffers from a rare neuromus cular disease. He has been Chair-
man and Board Member of Dogs for the Disabled (Ireland). He is
Chairman of the Board of dance theatre company, Junk Ensemble.
He is author of two books, Blood, Sweat and Tears, (Liberties Press,
2012) and Whistleblower, Soldier, Spy, (Liberties Press, 2013).
Patrick is a long-standing member of the Dictionary of Irish Biogra-
phy editorial team (joined 2003), and has contributed more than
500 entries, including many on significant political, literary, and
relig ious figures of the 20th century, with particular reference to
Northern Ireland. He is a graduate of University College Cork (BA in
English and history; MA in history) and Queen’s University Belfast
(PhD in politics, postgraduate Cert in Higher Education Teaching).
He has taught history and politics at University College Dublin and
at QUB (where he held three research fellowships (1993–4; 1995–
8; and 1998–2001). Has published numerous articles and book
chapters on 19th and 20th-century Irish history. He has written
two biogra phies: one of Daniel Corkery, the Irish politician, writer
and academic, the other of D. P. Moran, (the Irish journalist, activist
and cultural-political theorist).
Catriona lectured in History at Galway University for 35 years,
She has written books on nuns, social history, women’s maga-
zines, and women’s household work. She has just completed
a concise history of Ireland for Cambridge University Press, and
is now embarking on a biography of Alice Curtayne. She has
known and loved Percy French songs all her life.
THE P ERCY FRENCH FESTIVAL 2025 THE QUEST FOR AUTHENTICIT Y
ment at Maynooth University, specialising in the social history
of nineteenth and early twentieth century Ireland. He has a par-
ticular interest in the history of the Royal Irish Constabulary and
Dublin Metropolitan Police, crime, and sport (especially cycling).
Recent publications include articles on Percy French’s war-
related entertainments during the Great War, the bicycle in the
Irish Revolution, Jack B. Yeat’s Punch cartoons during the Great
War, and freak shows in 19th century Ireland. Work in progress
includes articles on bicycle advertisements in the Second World
War and street football in Ireland from the 1870s to the 1970s.
His latest book is Crime and the Criminal Classes in Ireland, 1870–
Dr Brian Griffin 1920, (Cork University Press, 2024)
Maeve is lecturer in Women’s and Cultural History at University
College Cork. She is author of Women of the Irish Country House,
1860–1914 (Liverpool University Press, 2018) and several other
pieces on elite women in Ireland. She is currently exploring the
experiences of single women. Maeve previously worked at the
Higher Education Authority and the Irish Research Council.
She won Irish Research Council funding for her PhD (UCC, 2014)
and for her postdoctoral fellowship at the Centre for the Study
of Historic Irish Houses and Estates at Maynooth University.
She is an elected fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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DR Maeve oRiordan
Eve is involved in psychoanalytic practice, training, education, and
research. She is a co-director of a busy Dublin city centre psycho -
therapy practice, and has published over 40 essays on psychoanal-
ysis, sexuality, film, culture, and literature. Her co-edited books are:
Freud’s Principal Case Studies Revisited: Freudian–Lacanian Psycho-
analysts Reconsider the Legacy (2025, Routledge); Critical Essays on
the Drive: Lacanian Theory and Practice (2024, Routledge); Clinical
Encounters in Sexuality (2017, Punctum); and there is a collection
on James Joyce’s writing forthcoming in 2026. In 2022 was the
Erik Erikson Scholar-in-Residence at the Austen Riggs Centre in
Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and is currently the academic direc-
tor of the Freud Lacan institute (FLi) in Dublin. She will be the
Dr Eve Watson Burns Scholar in Irish Studies at Boston College in late 2025.
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