Tomás Irish is Professor of Modern History at Swansea University. He is a historian of the First World War and interwar Europe and has published three monographs dealing with aspects of internationalism, intellectual life, and humanitarianism. Tomás is especially interested in the histories of cultural destruction in wartime and post-conflict reconstruction, and is currently engaged in research into post-First World War reparations and the restitution of personal and state property of different kinds in western Europe. He is also engaged in research on the history of the foundation of UNESCO.

Selected publications:

Feeding the Mind: Humanitarianism and the Reconstruction of European Intellectual Life, 1919–1933 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024).

‘The Paris Peace Conference and Cultural Reparations after the First World War’, English Historical Review, 137.589 (2023), pp. 1693-1724.

The “Moral Basis” of Reconstruction? Humanitarianism, Intellectual Relief and the League of Nations, 1918-1925. Modern Intellectual History, 17.3, pp. 769-800.