Declan J. Foley was born in Sligo in 1950, and moved to Melbourne in 1987. He founded the Yeats Society of Victoria in 1990 and the Annual Yeats Poetry Prize for Australia. He has organised seminars on John Butler Yeats at Chestertown N.Y. and at TCD. His previous book for Lilliput, The Only Art of Jack B. Yeats, was published in 2009.