The conference keynote was delivered by Dr Tim Wilson, Director of the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews. Dr Wilson is the author of a range of publications on political violence, ethnic violence, and terrorism, including Frontiers of Violence: Conflict and Identity in Ulster and Upper Silesia, 1918-22 (Oxford, 2010) and ‘The Strange Death of Loyalist Monaghan, 1912–1921’ in S. Paseta (ed.), Uncertain Futures: Essays about the Irish Past for Roy Foster (Oxford, 2016).