Ivan Gibbons is a Senior Lecturer in Irish Studies at St Mary's University, London, UK and a Community Education Worker with the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA), UK, where he introduced and taught Irish Studies adult education courses and was awarded the Irish Post community award for this work. He has taught and written on the relationship between the British Labour Party and Irish nationalism and was awarded his PhD from Birkbeck, University of London, UK on this subject.