(This interview is crossed posted at Outsider Writers Collective)

Full disclosure: I'm writing this intro after having imbibed a few pints of Guinness at a downtown KC Irish pub called O'Dowds, which, as a nod to authenticity, has been given my grandmother-in-law's seal of approval, all the way from Ballyshannon, Ireland. The inebriation is all the more fitting, considering Alan Kelly's Dublin area connections.

Alan first contacted me, years ago, by the invitation in one of my f...