- He has three children and lives in Sydney, Australia.
- UNSW Canberra (Australian Defence Force Academy) Master of Arts (Research), Creative Writing + History (2010 - 2014).
- "In January 2007, as a new year was being born, a skin cell refused to die, built itself into a big, scaly carcinoma and tunnelled inside me. Before the doctors caught it, it had metastasised into my lymphatic system. At the time, I was living alone in a studio apartment above the Cook's River in the inner south-west Sydney suburb of Marrickville. There, amid the shadows, the weeds and the white cockatoos ... I died.".
- In 2005, Casey met French-born journalist Florence Decamp, they formed a loving relationship and she encouraged him in his writing. Her influence, along with his children's connection to their cultural heritage, his historian eldest son's never-ending quest for his familial past and his dying father's storytelling, inspired Casey to spend his final years chasing his grandfather Cornelius Casey's story, the ghost of a man who served with the First Australian Imperial Forces in World War I and who died before Kerry Casey was born.
- Even as he was fighting cancer, the cancer that eventually killed him, Casey began to research the mystery surrounding his grandfather Cornelius Casey, who went missing during World War I. What he discovered was an unknown story of Irish-Australians fighting for Ireland's independence.
- Kerry Casey is survived by Florence, his children, Aydan, Anastasia and Alexander, their mother, Maria, and siblings Diane, Con, Mary, Michael and Anne.
- Kerry Casey spent considerable time in Ireland as a Writer in Residence researching Cornelius's story, and in 2014 he was awarded a Master of Arts from the Australian Defence Force Academy for his ground-breaking work.
- These Australian soldiers' stories had not been told, nor had the men's disappearances from the Australian service been explained. Cornelius Casey and the others who returned never talked of their time in the Irish Resistance.
- An excerpt from his work, The Diggers and the IRA, tries to explain the struggle these Australian-Irish soldiers faced: "Was it possible to be loyal to Australia and not to the King? Of course it was, as subsequent, non-English migrants to Australia have affirmed. For the Irish, England wasn't their Mother; Ireland was the 'Old Mother' of the Irish around the world and their loyalties, like those of migrants everywhere, were to their new country and their old, not to the British Crown - that symbol, for the Irish, of 750 years of occupation and oppression.".
- He undertook his secondary education at St Gregory's Campbelltown, Marcellin College Randwick, and finally, Vaucluse Boys High School (where he was a contemporary of George Smilovici).
- He completed a Bachelor of Arts with a Diploma of Education at the University of New South Wales in 1978, and a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from the Australian Defence Forces Academy in 2014.
- He spent his childhood mostly in country New South Wales, in the towns of Wagga Wagga, Captain's Flat, and then Milton - moving each time his father got a promotion.
- In addition to the below screen and theatre appearances, he also appeared in television commercials for an array of well-known products including King Gee Pants and Maltesers.
- He undertook tertiary study at the University of New South Wales. He spent over thirty years moving between the acting and teaching professions.
- The family settled in Sydney in 1967.
- The third of six children of James Casey, a telegraphist and Trade Union Official, and Joan Gaffney.
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