Cormac Ó Comhraí is a native of Furbo, Co. Galway, and a graduate of NUI Galway. He teaches history and Irish at second level in Galway. He has been researching the revolutionary period in the west of Ireland since he was in university and has given many public talks on aspects of local history as well as contributing to TG4 and Raidió na Gaeltachta documentaries. He was a participant in the History Ireland Hedge School held in 2012 in Clifden. He is co-editor of ‘The Men Will Talk to Me: Galway Interviews by Ernie O’Malley’ (Mercier Press, 2013).