Aidan Phelan

Aidan Phelan is the writer and historian for A Guide to Australian Bushranging, which has been bringing Australia's outlaw heritage to a worldwide audience since 2017. In 2021 he was featured in a series of interviews on ABC Radio Hobart and Northern Tasmania discussing the history of bushrangers in Tasmania, and was interviewed for The Hobart Magazine about bushranger "Rocky" Whelan.He has also worked as an illustrator, contributing work for Judy Lawson's The Clarke Bushrangers: A Clash of...See more

Aidan Phelan is the writer and historian for A Guide to Australian Bushranging, which has been bringing Australia's outlaw heritage to a worldwide audience since 2017. In 2021 he was featured in a series of interviews on ABC Radio Hobart and Northern Tasmania discussing the history of bushrangers in Tasmania, and was interviewed for The Hobart Magazine about bushranger "Rocky" Whelan.He has also worked as an illustrator, contributing work for Judy Lawson's The Clarke Bushrangers: A Clash of Cultures in 2020, and regularly provides illustrations for An Outlaw's Journal by Georgina Stones.In 2020 he self-published his first novel, Glenrowan, which dramatised the final months of the Kelly Outbreak. He is also developing Glenrowan as a television miniseries with filmmaker Matthew Holmes. In 2022 he authored and released three self-published titles: Glenrowan: Definitive Edition, Aaron Sherritt: Persona non Grata, and Bushranging Tales Volume One. See less