Patrick McWilliams is an Irish author, born in 1963 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Amongst his main publications is the 40-volume OS Memoirs of Ireland series and subsequent index (1990-2002).
Dr McWilliams, a former pupil of St Malachy's College and a graduate of Queen's University Belfast, is prominent in the administration of cue sports at higher-education level in the United Kingdom and Ireland. He is Chair of HESPC[1] and chairs the snooker sports management group within BUCS.[2] He is currently the manager of the ISLES project (Irish-Scottish Links on Energy Study).