Matt Treacy
{{short description|Irish historian and writer}}
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Matt Treacy is an Irish historian and writer. Treacy was a member of the Provisional IRA, and spent four years in Portlaoise Prison before being released under the Good Friday Agreement.[https://rfe123.org/category/matt-treacy Matt Treacy RFÉ 16 June 2018] Radio Free Eireann He worked with a number of Sinn Féin politicians as an advisor and speechwriter, including Martin Ferris TD.[https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/aide-active-in-ira-while-he-worked-in-dail-for-sinn-fein-35737737.html Aide 'active in IRA while he worked in Dail for Sinn Féin'] by Maeve Sheehan, Irish Independent, May 21, 2017. Treacy studied and completed a PhD in Trinity College Dublin.[https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/sorting-through-what-was-left-of-the-new-republic-1.1251106 Sorting through what was left of the new republic] by Deaglan De Breadun, Culture, Irish Times, February 9, 2013. Treacy has written histories of the IRA and the Communist Party of Ireland. Treacy contributed a column to An Phoblacht, reporting on Gaelic football and hurling, and works as a freelance journalist.
Publications
- The Communist Party of Ireland 1921 - 2011, by Matt Treacy, Brocaire Books, 2012.{{cite journal |last=Muldowney |first=Mary |year=2013 |title=Reviewed Work: The Communist Party of Ireland 1921-2011: Vol 1: 1921-1969 by Matt Treacy |journal=Saothar |volume=38 |pages=153–155 |jstor=24897912}}
- A Tunnel to the Moon: The End of the Irish Republican Army, by Matt Treacy, Lulu Publishing, 2011.
- The IRA 1956–69: Rethinking the Republic, by Matt Treacy, Manchester University Press, 2013.[https://www.historyireland.com/20th-century-contemporary-history/the-ira-1956-69-rethinking-the-republic/ Reviews: The IRA 1956-69 Rethinking the Republic] by Eoin Ó Broin, History Ireland, Issue 5, Sept/Oct 2011.{{cite journal |last=Leach |first=Daniel |year=2012 |title=Matt Treacy. The IRA, 1956–69: Rethinking the Republic |journal=The American Historical Review |volume=117 |issue=4 |pages=1302–1303 |doi=10.1093/ahr/117.4.1302}}{{cite journal |last=Mulholland |first=Marc |year=2011 |title=The IRA, 1956–69: Rethinking the Republic. By Matt Treacy. Pp viii, 211. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2011. £60. |journal=Irish Historical Studies |volume=37 |issue=148 |pages=660–661 |doi=10.1017/S0021121400003539|s2cid=164917144 }}
- A Year of the Dubs, by Matt Treacy, Lulu Publishing, 2013.
- Houses of Pain, by Matt Treacy, MTP Publishing, 2020.