Kevin McCarthy is a former history teacher, now a retired post-primary school inspector of History he has written a number of school textbooks and contributed to several books about his home place, Cappoquin. His first love is sports history. His book, Gold, Silver and Green: The Irish Olympic Journey 1896-1924 was awarded the Karl Lennartz Memorial Award by the International Society of Olympic Historians for the best single-volume work on the Olympic Games globally and shortlisted for the Aberdare Literary Award in Britain. Kevin holds a PhD in history from UCC. He has written widely on sports history for newspapers and journals. Kevin has also appeared on a number of radio and television programmes focused on the Irish involvement at the Olympic Games, including the documentary No Earthly King (2012).