James Kelly, MRIA, is Professor of History in the School of History and Geography at Dublin City University, and a past president of the Irish Historical Society, Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society and Irish Economic and Social History Society. He has served as a member of the Irish Manuscripts Commission and, as editor, of Studia Hibernica and Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. A specialist in the history of late early modern Ireland, he has written extensively on eighteenth-century Irish history, since the publication, in 1992 of his first monograph: Prelude to Union: Anglo-Irish politics in the 1780s (Cork University Press, 1992). His publications include: That damn's thing called Honour: Duelling in Ireland, 1570-1860 (Cork University Press, 1995); Poynings' law and the making of Law in Ireland, 1660-1800 (Irish Legal History Society, 2007); Sport and Society in Ireland 1600-1840 (Four Courts Press, 2014) and Food rioting in Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Four Courts Press, 2017). His major editions include The proclamations of Ireland, 1660-1820 (5 vols, Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2014). He is editor of volume 3 of the Cambridge history of Ireland: Ireland, 1730-1880 (Cambridge, 2018), and co-editor (with Tomás Ó Carragáin) of Climate and Society in Ireland: from prehistory to the present (Royal Irish Academy, 2021) He is currently investigating the graphic satire tradition in Ireland in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.