Prof Gavin Foster of Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, will be in the Carlow / Dublin during the first week in July, he is interested in interviewing people who had relatives involved in Ireland's Civil War, 1922 - 1924, or who may have stories, documents, pictures etc. concerning the period. Please contact me if you are interested in this project. Prof. Gavin Foster. Gavin Foster (PhD, University of Notre Dame, 2009) is an historian of modern Ireland whose work has focused on the interaction between republicanism, political violence, social conflict, social status, and popular culture in the Irish revolution, specifically its final civil war phase c. 1922-23. His work has appeared in Field Day Review, History Ireland, Saothar: Journal of the Irish Labour History Society, Éire-Ireland: Journal of Irish Studies, and New Hibernia Review. He also serves as the History Reviews Editor for the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. Along with modern Irish history and Irish Studies, Gavin’s current scholarly interests encompass memory studies, oral history, nationalism, respectability, the social and political meanings of clothing, labour history, and migration studies. Gavin currently has a cross-appointment with Concordia’s History Department for the purpose of supervising history MA and PhD students. He also works with graduate students in the interdisciplinary SIP and Humanities programs.