Roibeard Mac an Bheatha (Robbie McVeigh) is researcher, writer and activist. He is an Irish Protestant and has written critically on his own community and their role in Irish politics and history including ‘No One Likes Us, We Don’t Care: What Is to Be (Un) Done about Ulster Protestant Identity?’ in The Contested Identities of Ulster Protestants (Paul Burgess and Gareth Mulvenna eds.) He has written extensively on human rights, racism and sectarianism and colonialism in Ireland.

His publications include Racism and Anti-racism in Ireland (2002, with Ronit Lentin), Ireland, Colonialism and the Unfinished Revolution (2019, with Bill Rolston) both beyondthepalebooks.com. His wider work on racism includes ‘Dirty Water: ‘Nuremberg’ and Film’ International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 12, Issue 1, March 2018 https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijx035 09 January 2018.