Mike Cronin is Academic Director of the Centre for Irish Programmes at Boston College in Dublin, Ireland. Liam O'Callaghan is Lecturer in Health at Liverpool Hope University, UK. His main area of research is the social history of modern Ireland. Mike Cronin is Academic Director of the Centre for Irish Programmes at Boston College in Dublin, Ireland. Liam O'Callaghan is Lecturer in Health at Liverpool Hope University, UK. His main area of research is the social history of modern Ireland.