Books by Ian McKeane

He was born in Felixstowe, Suffolk, and raised and educated in Preston, Lancashire, where his father was a minister and his mother taught in a primary school. He qualified as a teacher from Chester College of Education (now Chester University).

Ian taught French in Lancashire and the Wirral, and English in France and Italy, before arriving at the Liverpool University Institute of Irish Studies, where he got his PhD in Irish history in 2005. In the late 1990s, Ian was the driving force behind Liverpool’s commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Irish famine. He persuaded Radio Merseyside to run a series of broadcasts about the events of 1847, and organised impressive unveiling for commemorative plaques erected around Merseyside.