Matt Treacy

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.[1] He worked with a number of Sinn Féin politicians as an advisor and speechwriter, including Martin Ferris TD.[2] Treacy studied an completed a Phd in Trinity College Dublin.[3] 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, Lulu Publishing, 2013.
  • 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.[4]
  • A Year of the Dubs, by Matt Treacy, Lulu Publishing, 2013.
  • Houses of Pain, by Matt Treacy, MTP Publishing, 2020.

References
  1. Matt Treacy RFÉ 16 June 2018 Radio Free Eireann
  2. Aide 'active in IRA while he worked in Dail for Sinn Féin' by Maeve Sheehan, Irish Independent, May 21, 2017.
  3. Sorting through what was left of the new republic by Deaglan De Breadun, Culture, Irish Times, February 9, 2013.
  4. Reviews: The IRA 1956-69 Rethinking the Republic by Eoin Ó Broin, History Ireland, Issue 5, Sept/Oct 2011.
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