Stephen Kelly is Professor of Modern Irish History and British-Irish Relations and Head of the School of Humanities at Liverpool Hope University, UK. He has published extensively in the field of Modern Irish History, British-Irish Relations, and the Northern Ireland Conflict. He is the author of Gerald Boland: A Biography (2024), 'A Failed Political Entity': Charles Haughey and the Northern Ireland Question, 1945-1992 (2016), Frank Aiken: Nationalist and Internationalist (edited collection) (2014), and Fianna Fáil, Partition and Northern Ireland, 1926-1971 (2013). Stephen Kelly's first Bloomsbury book, Margaret Thatcher, the Conservative Party and the Northern Ireland Conflict, 1975-1990 (2021), was named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles in 2022.