Mary Walsh-Kelly

Dr. Mary Walsh-Kelly (b. 1983) is an Irish academic, historian and author. The daughter of a Catholic Priest, she began her academic career researching the history of the Irish Church while in residence at the University of Dublin, before writing her PHD thesis on Early Modern Irish history and the effects of the Cromwellian Irish campaigns. The author of several books on the subject, she is considered one of the foremost experts on Cromwell's wars in Ireland.