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Jack Traynor

Jack Traynor is a PhD candidate in the Department of History in Trinity College Dublin. His research focuses on inter-war nationalism in Germany and Ireland. The project is funded by the Irish Research Council’s Postgraduate Scholarship. He previously attained an MA from Queen’s University Belfast and a BA from Trinity College Dublin. The author of a biographical book General Eoin O’Duffy (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co, 2024), he has also written articles covering topics in history and politics for several publications.
‘It is a strange tale to trace how the first communist group was dominated by Italian communists who cut their teeth in the partisan resistance forces whilst the largest Italian