Dr Emmanuel Destenay received his PhD in Contemporary History from the University Paris Sorbonne. Funded by the Institute for Strategic Research of the French Ministry of Defence, his doctoral research examined the experiences of demobilisation of Irish veterans of the First World War. His doctoral thesis received the 2015 PhD Prize from the Fondation Irlandaise. He held a Research Fellowship at the University of Oxford and a Visiting Junior Scholar Fellowship at Stanford University. In 2016, Dr Destenay was awarded a two-year Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on Irish veterans during the creation of the Irish Free State. His study particularly analyses the socioeconomic impact of the Anglo-Irish treaty on disabled veterans.
Dr Destenay has written several articles on the war experiences and homecoming of Irish WWI veterans in international refereed journals such as Vingtième Siècle and Irish Historical Studies.
As part of the IRC Fellowship, Dr Destenay also co-ordinates a network of four French secondary schools and four Irish secondary schools jointly working on the legacies of the war in France and Ireland. He is a Fellow of the British Higher Education Academy and a fully-qualified teacher in English, French and History.
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