Jeff Kildea is an historian, lecturer and author with a PhD in history from the University of New South Wales. He is an honorary professor in Irish Studies in the School of Humanities & Languages at UNSW. In 2014 he was the Keith Cameron Professor of Australian History at University College Dublin. He has taught Irish and Australian history to undergraduates at the University of New South Wales and at Sydney University’s Centre for Continuing Education. He has written books and articles and presented papers in Australia, New Zealand, England, Ireland and America on early 20th-century Irish-Australian history. His books include Tearing the Fabric: Sectarianism in Australia 1910-1925 (2002), Anzacs and Ireland (2007), Wartime Australians: Billy Hughes (2008), Hugh Mahon: Patriot, Pressman, Politician Volume 1 1857-1901 (2017) and Volume 2 1901-1931, Leaving Home: Stories of my Emigrant Ancestors (2021), Sister Liguori: The Nun who Divided a Nation (2024). With Richard Reid and Perry McIntyre he co-authored To Foster an Irish Spirit: Irish National Association of Australasia (2020). He is director of the Irish Anzacs Project and in 2014 recorded a series of podcasts on the Irish at Galllipoli for UCD’s The History Hub for release during the Gallipoli centenary year. Also, he has posted to YouTube a series of video talks under the title Croppies Downunder that tell some of the stories of the Irish in Australia. For more than 30 years Jeff Kildea practised as a barrister from 5 Wentworth Chambers in Sydney and was an Acting Commissioner of the Land and Environment Court from 2013 to 2018. He is also the editor of Land & Environment Court Law & Practice NSW and a contributing author to Planning & Development Service NSW and Environmental Responsibilities Law published by Thomson Reuters.