The Irish Boundary Commission: “The Root of All Evil”

Based on research from his forthcoming book The Root of All Evil: The Irish Boundary Commission, due to be published in May by Irish Academic Press, Dr Cormac Moore’s talk will look at why the Irish Boundary Commission, a key component of the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty, ended up being disbanded in 1925, leaving the border in Ireland as it was, as it still is.

Dr Cormac Moore is Historian in Residence for the Dublin South East area of Dublin City Council. He has published widely on Irish history, including the books, Birth of the Border: The Impact of Partition in Ireland (2019), The Irish Soccer Split (2015), The GAA V Douglas Hyde: The Removal of Ireland’s First President as GAA Patron (2012) and Laois: The Irish Revolution, 1912-1923 (2025). He is also an editor of the Atlas of Irish Sport with John Crowley, Mike Cronin and Charlie Roche, due to be published in the near future as one of Cork University Press’s hugely successful atlases. He is a columnist with the Irish News as well as editing its daily “On This Day” column.

Professor Margaret O’Callaghan works in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast. Her interests are in Irish political thought, the politics of Irish literature, British high politics, the politics of commemoration and memory, and modern Irish cultural and political history. She has published widely in all of these areas.

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