Myles Dungan is an Irish writer, lecturer and broadcaster. He holds a PhD from Trinity College, Dublin and was the recipient of a Fulbright Award to the University of California, Berkeley in 2007. He is the author of more than a dozen books on Irish and American history (including Four Killings, Conspiracy: Irish Political Trials, Irish Voices from the Great War, How the Irish Won the West and Land is all that matters). He is also the author of two works for children, The Great Irish History Book and The Forgettables. The Red Branch is his first solo effort as a fiction writer. He has high hopes that it will not be his last.