Paul Irish is an archaeologist and historian who lives in Sydney and works for heritage and history firm MDCA. He has spent the past fifteen years working with local Aboriginal people on projects about Sydney’s Aboriginal archaeology and history. He completed a PhD looking at the Aboriginal people and places of coastal Sydney in 2014. In 2016 together with researchers from the La Perouse Aboriginal Community Paul produced an exhibition on Aboriginal people of coastal Sydney at History House. In 2015, he was awarded the NSW History Fellowship by Arts NSW for a collaborative project with Aboriginal researchers from La Perouse which culminated in an exhibition at History House in Sydney during NAIDOC 2016, featuring profiles of 10 key Aboriginal people who lived in the coastal part of Sydney between the early 1800s and the 1940s. Paul lectures regularly on Aboriginal history and archaeology at the University of New South Wales and Sydney University and has given many public lectures. Hidden in plain view is his first book.