Richard Maher has been researching and writing about Charles Wogan and the Wild Geese for ten years. He has delivered papers at the Tudor & Stuart conferences in 2015 and 2018, at the Second International Congress on Ireland and the Iberian Atlantic in Seville in 2016, and at the University of Notre Dame’s North Atlantic Catholic Communities in Rome, 1622-1939, hosted in Rome in 2017. In 2019, he organised an event to commemorate the tercentenary of the rescue and escape of Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska. He was the editor of the follow-on publication titled The Irish to the Rescue: The Tercentenary of the Polish Princess Clementina’s Escape, published by Peter Lang Ltd in 2021. He teaches Gaeilge, Politics and other subjects at Rathmines College of Further Education in Dublin.