Robert Lynch is a professional Historian who has worked, taught and researched at various universities across Britain and Ireland including Stirling, Oxford, Trinity College Dublin, Warwick and Queen’s University Belfast. His research interests are in the History of Ulster in the twentieth century with particular focus on partition and the establishment of Northern Ireland. He has published numerous articles on these subjects in scholarly journals and contributed to edited volumes including the recent anthology The Irish Revolution (Cork, 2017). His books include a study of Irish Republicanism in Ulster, The Northern IRA and the early years of partition, 1920-22 (Dublin, 2006) and The Partition of Ireland, 1912-1925 (Cambridge, 2019), released earlier this year. He currently lives and teaches in Glasgow, Scotland.