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Not Your Average Red‐Headed Irish Catholic: Reflections of and by the person behind the byline

In the course of organising a special issue devoted to the work of Kevin Harris, he sent me the following biographical piece. I decided it couldn’t wait for publication and I wanted to make it available as soon as possible. It is the kind of reflective professional or academic autobiography that is the basis for the great educational narrative that has been so important in stories of selftransformation from the traditional bildungsroman to a genre of movie and TV programmes including To Sir with Love, Up the Down Staircase, Welcome Back Kotter and Bad Teacher. Professor Kevin Harris’ narrative is authentic, ironic, caustic in places, and confessional. It is also written in a delightful manner with a wry awareness of events that involve many people whose lives he touched and who touched him.