Anthony Russell is a retired academic, Anglia Ruskin University, who has worked on higher education projects from Denmark to Burma. An historical geographer, he was academic consultant to Dundalk Institute of Technology’s Borderlands degree and World Education’s Global Border Studies, in refugee camps on the Thai Myanmar border. Working with Bytown Museum, Ottawa, he is the creator and director of the exhibition ‘Thomas D’Arcy McGee: Irish Rebel – Canadian Patriot’. He is the author of Between Two Flags: John Miitchel and Jenny Verner (Merrion Press, 2015). His play The Trial of P. H. Pearse in the Court of History which has been performed in Canada and at Féile an Phobail 2017, on both the Falls and Shankill Roads.