Dr Shane Browne is an occasional lecturer at University College Dublin (UCD) lecturing on public history. He holds a BA in Design & Visual Communications from South East Technological University as well as an MA and PhD in Modern Irish History from UCD. His doctoral researched examined the National Volunteers from 1913-1920, an extra-parliamentary outfit connected to the Irish Parliamentary Party.
Dr Browne’s research interests include the history of paramilitarism, veteranship and the arms trade in Ireland during and after the First World War. He is currently a Research Assistant working on the project, ‘A History of the Irish Revolution in 100 Documents from the collections of UCD Archives’, and has worked with the National Folklore Collection at UCD on ‘The Civil War Memory Project’.