Brett Wright is an undergraduate student majoring in history at the University of Melbourne. He is a former journalist who worked in police rounds for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age in the 1980s. In 2010 he won the Mary O’Donoghue Prize for Irish Studies, awarded by the Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne, for an essay on the Fenians and Irish terrorism. Copyright © Brett Wright

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