Dr. Cliff Dudley has been involved in the education field for forty years as a teacher and administrator. He has taught for the University of Bridgeport, Sacred Heart University, Southern CT State University and the University of New Haven. Additionally, he is a professional contract negotiator. Dr. Dudley did undergraduate and graduate work at Fordham, and has worked with both the British Army and the Irish Red Cross. He holds Irish citizenship and his wife hails from County Clare. Dr. Dudley is a member of the Macmillan Center at Yale, the Royal Historical Society at University College London, the Western Front Association, and the Arts Council of Greater New Haven. He has presented on Irish Hedge Schools, the Role of the Regular British Army in Ireland 1919-1921, the Poetry of the Great War, and Famine Memorials in Modern Ireland.