Ronan Coghlan
| Date of Birth: | 1 January 1970 |
| Address: | Bangor, Northern Ireland |
Ronan Coghlan is a unique and multifarious Irish writer from Dublin now living in Bangor, Northern Ireland. A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, he has served as a schoolteacher for over 20 years, notably at Rockport, Northern Ireland and Hawkhurst Court, Sussex. He has published a voluminous number of books on a wide range of mystical topics: Dictionary of Irish Myth and Legend, Irish Christian Names, Encyclopaedia of Arthurian Legends, Handbook of Fairies, The Robin Hood Companion, Dictionary of Cryptozoology, Cryptosup,Sherlock Holmes and the Heir of Albion, Further Cryptozoology, Companion to Atlantis and Other Mystery Lands, and The Grail. Perhaps the book he is best known for to date is Encyclopaedia of Arthurian Legends, which sold 120,000 copies worldwide and has been translated into Japanese and Hungarian