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Shane Kenna was a Doctor of modern Irish history with an interest in late Victorian and Edwardian Irish nationalism. He was a regular media presence with Newstalk Radio, Near FM, B...view moreShane Kenna was a Doctor of modern Irish history with an interest in late Victorian and Edwardian Irish nationalism. He was a regular media presence with Newstalk Radio, Near FM, BBC Radio 4 and wrote for Irish Academic Press, The O'Brien Press, History Ireland, the BBC History Magazine and Kilmainham Tales.
Shane lectured at Trinity College, Dublin and Saor Ollscoil na hÉireann University and also designed modules on Irish history for the American College, Arcadia Universityas well as organising and managing several courses on Modern History and has spoken at over thirty international academic conferences.
Shane published several books on Irish history including a biography on 1916 leader Thomas MacDonagh, and the Fenian Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa whose funeral in 1915 is seen as the precurser to the Easter Rising the following year. Shane has also written about the Fenian Dynamite Campaign and Fenianism.
He died in February 2017.view less