Dr Anna Lively

Research Associate

History

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I am a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and a historian of twentieth-century Ireland and Russia. My research specialisms include transnational approaches, histories of the press and the history of ideas. Before starting at Strathclyde in September 2024 I was a Teaching Fellow in Modern History at the University of Aberdeen and Roy Foster Irish Government Research Fellow in the History and Culture of Ireland at the University of Oxford. I completed my AHRC-funded PhD, titled 'Revolutionary Reverberations: Russia and Ireland in War and Revolution, 1905-1923', at the University of Edinburgh in 2022. My current research explores the role of Irish women in global anti-communist networks, 1919-1939.

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Professional Activities

Eyewitnesses to the Revolution: Irish Involvement on the Eastern Front during World War One
Speaker
31/1/2025
Study Group on the Russian Revolution
Participant
4/1/2025
Irish Anti-Communism and Responses to the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917
Speaker
2024
Irish Entanglements on the Eastern Front and in the Russian Civil Wars, 1915-1921
Speaker
2023
Multilingual Legacies of Ireland’s Revolution and Civil War
Participant
2023
Anti-Communism, Russia and the Irish Catholic Church, 1905-1923
Speaker
2023

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Fighting the Red Menace: Irish Women and Global Anti-Communism, 1919-1939
Lively, Anna (Principal Investigator)
What role did Irish women play in the global spread of anti-communism between 1919 and 1939? This project investigates the diversity of Irish women’s anti-communist activism, including through connections with right-wing groups in the Irish diaspora in Britain, the US and Australia. It focuses on a critical period in the development of global anti-communism, spanning from the Irish War of Independence and the first US Red Scare to the Spanish Civil War. Combining transnational history with gender studies’ approaches, this project analyses a neglected form of Irish women’s political participation and examines the politics of gender on the right.
01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2027

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Dr Anna Lively
Research Associate
History

Email: anna.lively@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted