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Staraí/Scríbhneoir - Historian/Writer

Scoláire iardhochtúireachta IRC in Ollscoil na Gaillimhe / iarscoláire Fulbright

19th c. US history; Fenianism; Irish language in the US; Irish folklore
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My new book, 'The Fenian Empire: A Hemispheric History of Irish Republican Nationalism' is now live in the NYU Press catalogue and due for release in early June, fittingly on the 160th anniversary of the first major Fenian raid on Canada

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The Fenian Empire
A bold new exploration of Fenian revolutionary activity across the AmericasIn the aftermath of the American Civil War, the Fenian movement stood at a crossro...
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December 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Honoured that the Enchanted Bay was named runner up for the 2025 Katharine Briggs Award tonight by the @folkloresociety.bsky.social - Fantastic to see this recognition go to a work of Irish folklore!
November 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Táim ar bís le bheith ar ais i nDún Éideann don cheardlann seo - ag dúil go mór leis na páipéir uilig / Looking forward to what promises to be a great day of conversations on the Gaelic Atlantic !
pomuirch.bsky.social Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh @pomuirch.bsky.social · Aug 7
'Diasporic documents from the Gaelic Atlantic' - a one-day, in-person workshop at the University of Edinburgh on 5 September. Tuilleadh fiosrachaidh | More information 👇
Poster advertising an event to take place on 5 September 2025 at 50 George Square, the University of Edinburgh, on the topic of 'Diasporic documents from the Gaelic Atlantic'. The event will run from 10am to 5pm. 10.00 Introduction and welcome 10.30-12.00 Ken Ó Donnchú (UCC): Spanish-Irish translation 1593-1706 Aonghas MacCoinnich (Glasgow): Gaelic perspectives on ‘state formation’ and Atlantic plantation. The case of Lewis, c.1610-c.1640 Silke Stroh (Koblenz): Re-fitting ‘The Garb of Old Gaul’: Circum-Atlantic warfare and intercultural mobility in re-writings and translations of a popular 18th-century song 12.00-13.00 Lunch 13.00-14.30 Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh (Edinburgh): Viewing Inveraray from St Lucia: The case of Dugald MacNicol’s manuscripts Kathleen Reddy (Glasgow): The Bàrd na Ceapaich manuscript at the University of Glasgow Brendan Kane (UConn & Edinburgh): Political thought and politicization from New York to Cork: Reading the early modern through a 19th-century commonplace book 14.30-15.00 Coffee 15.00-16.00 Rob Dunbar (Edinburgh): Johnathon Mackinnon and Mac-Talla Síobhra Aiken (QUB): Gaeltacht communities in North America: Real or Imagined? 16.00-17.00 Round table Enda Delaney (Edinburgh), Désha Osborne (Edinburgh) Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna (Galway) 17.00 Close
September 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM