Ida Milne is a public historian who researches the social impact of epidemic disease, principally the 1918-19 influenza pandemic. Her second field of research is in southern Irish Protestant identity, and she co-edited Protestant and Irish, the Minority’s search for place in independent Ireland (Cork, 2019) with Dr Ian d’Alton. Her work on the pandemic has been published in many fora and media, but principally in her monograph, Stacking the Coffins, Influenza, War and Revolution in Ireland, 1918-19. (Manchester University Press, 2018). This book was named a Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Titles of 2019. Milne has used her research on this earlier pandemic to inform discussion of the Covid-19 pandemic, and has been a frequent media contributor during the current crisis. She is co-chair of the European Social Sciences History Conference health and environment strand, and chair of HSTM Network Ireland She is a social historian of epidemic disease, of Irish Protestant identity, of media, and of working life and is lecturer in European History at Carlow College, as well as a TCD History visiting research fellow.. She is a former Irish editor of the Irish Literary Supplement.