Tomás Irish is lecturer in Modern History in the Department of History and Classics at Swansea University. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a Gold Medal in 2006, completed his PhD there in 2012, and was a postdoctoral research fellow at Trinity's Centre for War Studies from 2012 to 2015. He is the author of The university at war 1914-25: Britain, France and the United States (2015; Palgrave Macmillan).