Gillian O'Brien
Dr. Gillian O’Brien holds a BA and an MA in History from University College Dublin. She obtained a doctorate from the University of Liverpool and is Professor of Public History at Liverpool John Moores University, where she is Programme Leader for the MA course in Modern History and teaches on undergraduate and postgraduate courses. She is a member of the Board of the Irish Museums Association, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a former Fulbright Scholar Her lifelong fascination for past that has led her to explore a wide range of subjects ranging from 19th-century Irish radical republicanism to the contemporary museum and heritage industry. Her recurring focus is on the darker corners of history - and the ways in which dramatic events are remembered and misremembered.