Professor Liam Harte (Principal Investigator, 2019-22)
Liam is Professor of Irish Literature at the University of Manchester. He is the author of Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel, 1987-2007 (Wiley Blackwell, 2014) and his edited volumes include Something About Home: New Writing on Migration and Belonging (Geography Publications, 2017), A History of Irish Autobiography (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction (Oxford University Press, 2020). His 2009 study, The Literature of the Irish in Britain: Autobiography and Memoir, 1725–2001 (Palgrave Macmillan), was the basis of a play entitled My English Tongue, My Irish Heart, written by Martin Lynch, which toured venues in the UK and Ireland in 2015.
Professor Graham Dawson (Co-Investigator, 2019-22)
Graham is a Visiting Professor in INCORE at Ulster University and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Brighton, where he was previously Professor of Historical Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories. He is the author of Making Peace with the Past? Memory, Trauma and the Irish Troubles (Manchester University Press, 2007) and co-editor of The Northern Ireland Troubles in Britain: Impacts, Engagements, Legacies and Memories (Manchester University Press, 2017). His next monograph, Afterlives of the Troubles: Life Stories, Culture and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland, is forthcoming from Manchester University Press.
Dr Barry Hazley (Research Fellow, 2019-22)
Barry is Lecturer in Contemporary British and Irish History in the Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of Life History and the Irish Migrant Experience in Post-War England: Myth, Memory and Emotional Adaption (Manchester University Press, 2020) and co-author, with Lynn Abrams, Valerie Wright and Ade Kearns, of Glasgow: High-Rise Homes, Estates and Communities in Post-war Britain (Routledge, 2020). He is currently researching a new monograph, provisionally entitled The Troubles and English Society: A Social and Cultural History.
Dr Fearghus Roulston (Research Fellow, 2019-22)
Fearghus is Chancellor’s Fellow in the History of Activism at Strathclyde University. His first book, Belfast Punk and the Troubles: An Oral History, was published by Manchester University Press in 2022. He is a reviews editor and member of the editorial board at the Oral History Journal.
Dr Jack Crangle (Research Associate, 2020-22)
Jack is Lecturer in Contemporary British History at Queen’s University Belfast. He was previously an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at Maynooth University, working on a project called Black Ireland: Race, Culture and Nationhood in the Irish Republic, 1948-95. Prior to that, he worked at the University of Manchester, having completed his PhD in Modern History at Queen’s in 2019. He is the author of Migrants, Immigration and Diversity in Twentieth-Century Northern Ireland: British, Irish or ’Other’? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), and has written for The Conversation and contributed to various journals, blogs and podcasts.
Dr Hilary White (Research Associate and Administrator, 2022)
Hilary is currently an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at Maynooth University, where she is working on a project called Forms of Sleep: Literary Experiments in Somnolence. She completed her PhD, entitled Models of Indiscipline: Visuality in the 1960s-70s Novels of Christine Brooke-Rose, Ann Quin and Brigid Brophy, at the University of Manchester in 2021.
Mrs Naomi Wells (Research Administrator, 2019-21)
Naomi was closely involved in assisting the PI and Co-I to set up the project in 2019 and recruit the postdoctoral researchers. Thereafter, her primary role was to transcribe the recorded oral history interviews undertaken by Barry, Fearghus and Jack.
IT Support (2019-24)
The project received expert technical support over a five-year period from the following research software engineers in Research IT at the University of Manchester: Theresa Teng, Louise Lever, Catherine McGuire, Awais Khan, Benito Matischen and Joshua Woodcock.