Dr Angela Byrne is from Donegal and is a historian of women, migration, and travel and exploration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is editor at the Dictionary of Irish Biography (Royal Irish Academy), and has held research and lecturing positions at the universities of Greenwich, Toronto and NUI Maynooth, and EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum. She has published widely and was elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2021. Anarchy And Authority is her fourth book.