She is a Professor in the Department of History, Trinity College Dublin. She is author of Commemorating the Irish Civil War: history and memory 1923-2000 (2003), and, with William Murphy, Michael Collins: the man and the revolution (2018), and Days in the life: reading the Michael Collins diaries, 1918-1922 (2022). Her most recent publication, ‘A very hard struggle’: lives in the Military Service Pensions Collection (2023) was co-edited with Catriona Crowe. She is Principal Investigator of Witnessing War, Making Peace: Testimonies of Revolution and Restraint in Inter-War Ireland.
Commemorating the Irish Civil War: history and memory 1923-2000 (Cambridge, 2003)
Michael Collins: the man and the revolution (Royal Irish Academy, 2018)
A very hard struggle’: lives in the Military Service Pensions Collection (MSPC, 2023)
Dolan, A., & Crowe, C. (Eds.). (2023). A very hard struggle: Lives in the Military Service Pensions Collection. Department of Defence.
Dolan, A., & Murphy, W. (2022). Days in the life: Reading the Michael Collins diaries 1918–1922. Royal Irish Academy.
Dolan, A., & Murphy, W. (2018). Michael Collins: The man and the revolution. Collins Press & Gill.
O’Malley, C. K. H., & Dolan, A. (Eds.). (2008). ‘No surrender here!’ The civil war papers of Ernie O’Malley. Lilliput Press.
Geoghegan, P. M., Jones, D., & Dolan, A. (Eds.). (2007). Reinterpreting Emmet: Essays on the life and legacy of Robert Emmet. UCD Press.
Dolan, A. (2003). Commemorating the Irish Civil War: History and memory, 1923–2000 (2nd ed., 2006). Cambridge University Press.
Dolan, A. (2023). “I have lost a lot by fighting for my country”: Reckoning with the Irish revolution. Contemporary European History, 32(4), 587–603.
Dolan, A. (2021). Death in the archives: Witnessing war in Ireland, 1919–1921. Past and Present, 253(1), 271–300.
Dolan, A. (2020). Killing in “the good old Irish fashion”? Irish revolutionary violence in context. Irish Historical Studies, 44(165), 11–24.
Dolan, A. (2006). Killing and Bloody Sunday, November 1920. The Historical Journal, 49(3), 789–810.
Dolan, A. (2024). “The lash of the liberators”: Ireland 1912–1985 on independence. In M. Nyhan Grey (Ed.), A tract for our times: A retrospective on Joe Lee’s Ireland 1912–1985 (pp. 72–86). UCD Press.
Dolan, A. (2021). Worrying away at the Irish revolution. In M. D. Higgins (Ed.), Machnamh 100: President of Ireland centenary reflections volume 1 (pp. 50–54). Office of the President of Ireland.
Dolan, A. (2018). Politics, economy and society in the Irish Free State, 1922–1939. In T. Bartlett (Ed.), The Cambridge history of Ireland: Volume 4, 1880 to the present (pp. 323–348). Cambridge University Press.