Dr Anna Lively
Roy Foster Irish Government Research Fellow
Dr Anna Lively is Roy Foster Irish Government Research Fellow in the History and Culture of Ireland. She specialises in modern Irish and Russian history, international press networks and transnational methodologies.
She received her AHRC-funded PhD from the University of Edinburgh in November 2022, which was entitled ‘Revolutionary Reverberations: Russia and Ireland in War and Revolution, 1905-1923’. It used both Russian language and Irish sources to provide a new perspective on Irish revolutionary international engagement beyond the Anglophone world, demonstrating greater Russian interest in Irish politics than previously acknowledged.
She teaches on Irish history, global history and historical methods and skills.
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Research interests
Research interests
Anna Lively’s primary research interests are modern Irish and Russian political history, the history of revolutions and the international press. Her PhD explored political connections between Ireland and Russia from 1905 to 1923. Drawing on a broad and bilingual source base, it provided a fresh perspective on the use of foreign ideas and news within Irish political debate and on how the Irish Revolution was interpreted abroad. As part of her post-doctoral research, she is examining Irish anti-communism in the interwar period from a global perspective.
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Publications
- Anna Lively, ‘‘Playing at International politics?’: Irish Nationalist Responses to the Russian Revolution, 1917-1921’ in Fearghal McGarry and Patrick Mannion (eds.) The Irish Revolution: A Global History (New York: NYU Press, 2022), 93-115.
- With Matthew Rendle, ‘The Antirevolutionary Commemoration: The Centenary of 1917 in Russia’, History and Memory, 33, 2 (2021), 3-45.
- With Matthew Rendle, ‘‘Inspiring a ‘Fourth Revolution?’: The Modern Revolutionary Tradition and the Problems surrounding the Commemoration of 1917 in 2017 in Russia’, Historical Research, 90, 247 (2017), 230-49.