Rob Savage directs the Boston College Irish Studies Program and a member of the university’s History faculty. He teaches Irish, British and Atlantic World history and interdisciplinary courses with colleagues in Philosophy, Fine Art and English. Savage’s books and articles explore contemporary Irish and British history and include his new monograph ‘Northern Ireland, the BBC and Censorship in Thatcher’s Britain’, published in 2022 by Oxford University Press. Other books include ‘The BBC’s Irish Troubles: Television, Conflict and Northern Ireland’ (2015) short-listed for the 2015-2018 Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize; ‘A Loss of Innocence? Television and Irish Society 1960-1972’, Winner of the 2011 James S. Donnelly Sr. Book Prize from the American Conference for Irish Studies, ‘Sean Lemass, a biography’ (2014, 1999), ‘Ireland in the New Century: Politics, Culture and Identity’ (2003) and ‘Irish Television, the Political and Social Origins’ (1996). Professor Savage has been awarded Visiting Fellowships at the Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin (2018, 2012); at Queen’s University Belfast (2017-2018) at the University of Edinburgh where he held a Leverhulme Professorship (2007), and at the National University of Ireland, Galway (2013, 2004).