Dr Cormac Moore is an historian-in-residence with Dublin City Council and a columnist with The Irish News who also edits its ' On This Day' segment. He has published widely on Irish history, including the books, Laois: The Irish Revolution, 1912- 1923 (Four Courts Press, 2025), Birth of the Border: The Impact of Partition in Ireland (Merrion Press, 2019), The Irish Soccer Split (Cork University Press, 2015), and The GAA V Douglas Hyde: The Removal of Ireland's First President as GAA Patron (The Collins Press, 2012).