TODAY and on Monday The Irish Timesexamines newly released cabinet papers which have been made available in Dublin, London and Belfast and are traditionally kept secret for 30 years. Some papers cover previous years and some have been withheld.
Contributors:
John Bowman
Dr John Bowman is a broadcaster and historian. His book Window and Mirror, RTÉ Television: 1961- 2011 has just been published by The Collins Press.
He is also author of De Valera and the Ulster Question: 1917-1973.
Eamon Phoenix
Dr Éamon Phoenix is principal lecturer in history at Stranmillis University College (QUB). He is co-editor with Alan Parkinson of Conflicts in the North of Ireland 1900-2000, published by Four Courts Press.
Jonathan Bardon
Dr Jonathan Bardon is author of The Plantation of Ulster, published by Gill Macmillan, November 2011.
John Bew
Dr John Bew is a lecturer in war studies and director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence at King’s College London. His most recent book is Castlereagh, from Enlightenment to Tyranny, Quercus Publishing.
Deaglán de Bréadún
Deaglán de Bréadún is a political correspondent with The Irish Timesand author of The Far Side of Revenge: Making Peace in Northern Ireland,published by The Collins Press.
Genevieve Carbery and Fiona Gartland
Fiona Gartland and Genevieve Carbery are Irish Times reporters.
Editors:
Kieran Fagan
Kieran Fagan collaborated with Prof Ed Walsh, founder and first president of UL, on his memoir Upstart, Friends, Foes and Founding a University,published recently by The Collins Press.
Patrick Logue
Patrick Logue is an Irish Times assistant news editor.
Sources:
National Archives, Bishop Street, Dublin: nationalarchives.ie
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, 2 Titanic Boulevard, Belfast BT3 9HQ: proni.gov.uk
National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU, England: nationalarchives.gov.uk