Matt Treacy

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Matt Treacy is an Irish historian and writer. Treacy was a member of the Provisional IRA, and spent four years in Portlaoise Prison before being released under the Good Friday Agreement.[1] He worked with a number of Sinn Féin politicians as an advisor and speechwriter, including Martin Ferris TD.[2] Treacy studied and completed a PhD in Trinity College Dublin.[3] Treacy has written histories of the IRA and the Communist Party of Ireland. Treacy contributed a column to An Phoblacht, reporting on Gaelic football and hurling, and works as a freelance journalist.

Publications[]

  • The Communist Party of Ireland 1921 - 2011, by Matt Treacy, Lulu Publishing, 2013.
  • A Tunnel to the Moon: The End of the Irish Republican Army, by Matt Treacy, Lulu Publishing, 2011.
  • The IRA 1956–69: Rethinking the Republic, by Matt Treacy, Manchester University Press, 2013.[4]
  • A Year of the Dubs, by Matt Treacy, Lulu Publishing, 2013.
  • Houses of Pain, by Matt Treacy, MTP Publishing, 2020.

References[]

  1. ^ Matt Treacy RFÉ 16 June 2018 Radio Free Eireann
  2. ^ Aide 'active in IRA while he worked in Dail for Sinn Féin' by Maeve Sheehan, Irish Independent, May 21, 2017.
  3. ^ Sorting through what was left of the new republic by Deaglan De Breadun, Culture, Irish Times, February 9, 2013.
  4. ^ Reviews: The IRA 1956-69 Rethinking the Republic by Eoin Ó Broin, History Ireland, Issue 5, Sept/Oct 2011.
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