William Sheehan

Dr. William Sheehan is a military historian. He has published several books, including British Voices from the Irish War of Independence (2005), Fighting for Dublin (2007), Images of Sarsfield Barracks (2008), Hearts and Mines: The British 5th Division in Ireland 1919-1921 (2009). His doctoral thesis was published in 2011 under the title, A Hard Local War: The British Army and the Guerrilla War in Cork 1919-22. He is one of the leading historians on the Irish War of Independence, and an expert on the British's army campaign in Ireland from 1919 to 1921. He works for the Open University