Patrick J. Mahoney, or Pá draig Fhia Ó Mathú na, is an award-winning historian and writer. He is currently a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Galway. Between 2021 and 2023, he was a researcher on the Harvard-based Fionn Folklore Database. A former Fulbright scholar, his publications include a critical volume of the translated works of Irish language writer Eoin Ua Cathail, entitled Recovering an Irish Voice from the American Frontier (2021). Cormac K.H. O' Malley was born in Ireland, moved to the USA in 1957, studied history at Harvard and law at Columbia, and enjoyed a successful thirty-year international legal career. In retirement, he has pursued research on modern Irish history and the legacy of his parents, Ernie O' Malley, and artist Helen Hooker O' Malley. He has lectured broadly on his family legacy and Irish history.