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Cian T. McMahon, PhD @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social · 2d

I am looking forward to digging into this one soon… debut novel by trained historian and worldly raconteur @mylesdungan.bsky.social

Congrats, Myles!!

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Cian T. McMahon, PhD @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social · 3d

Henderson, Nevada, 5:16pm

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Maddalena Marinari, Ph. D. @irpinaingiro.bsky.social · 9d

Really looking forward to this! Registration details below 👇🏽

Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 9d

***Immigration and Ethnic History Society Online Books Series***

Join @greeneland.bsky.social and Brendan A. Shanahan for a discussion of their recent publications! The panel will be moderated by Michael Salgarolo.

October 28, 2025, 4:15-5:30PM EST

Register here: iehs.org/event/online...

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Cian T. McMahon, PhD @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social · 12d

Yep, corner of University Place and Waverly Place.

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Cian T. McMahon, PhD @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social · 13d

What a fun night! Thanks to our fantastic hosts at @gihnyu.bsky.social

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social · 13d

Video of our launch of Rituals of Migration @gihnyu.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social is now up on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qh1...
@irpinaingiro.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social @appalachianphilly.bsky.social

Launch of Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move

YouTube video by Glucksman Ireland House NYU

www.youtube.com

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Cian T. McMahon, PhD @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social · 20d

Manhattan, New York, 6:18pm

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Cian T. McMahon, PhD @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social · 23d

Really excited to be here for the event. Have decamped to the Bobst Library Special Collection in anxious anticipation.

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social · 23d

Looking forward to launching "Rituals of Migration" @nyupress.bsky.social @gihnyu.bsky.social Sept 19, 7pm w/ @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @unlawfulentries.bsky.social @tedsmyth.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social &co. 🎉🎉🎉

Glucksman Ireland House NYU @gihnyu.bsky.social · 23d

Join us this Thursday to celebrate the launch of the latest book in the NYU Press Glucksman Irish Diaspora series, Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move. We can't wait to see you all at Ireland House this week 🎉 @nyupress.bsky.social @kevinkenny.bsky.social @irpinaingiro.bsky.social

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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · Sep 5

Our Irish Studies Seminar programme for the autumn is now available - all events will be in hybrid format and everyone is welcome. For more info and registration: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

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Women’s History Association of Ireland @whaireland.bsky.social · Aug 28

Looking for members help. Dr Maria Luddy and Dr Judith Harford are writing a book on the experiences of Irish women national school teachers, 1890-1950. They would love to hear from anyone with material such as diaries, letters, photographs, or other artefacts. email [email protected].

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social · May 15

🗃️"Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move" edited by @kevinkenny.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social nyupress.org/978147982513...
The official publication date is June 17 but you can order the book now from @nyupress.bsky.social
@gihnyu.bsky.social @tedsmyth.bsky.social 🧵2

Book cover showing an Italian family preparing to leave and an Irish family reading an emigrant letter, with a 30 percent discount code: NYUAU30

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · Aug 12

Did you know that the Immigration and Ethnic History Society has a YouTube channel?

Consider following us on there as we have videos of our past programs.

www.youtube.com/@iehs_org?ap...

Immigration and Ethnic History Society

www.youtube.com

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · Aug 12

Check out this book talk with Immigration and Ethnic History Society Board Member @sfahrenthold.bsky.social:

youtu.be/-UJHOuqFPvg?...

Stacy Fahrenthold, Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class

YouTube video by Immigration and Ethnic History Society

youtu.be

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UCD Archives @ucdarchives.bsky.social · Aug 10

The annals are in separate volumes in Dublin, in three separate libraries: @ria.ie, @tcddublin.bsky.social, @ucdlibrary.bsky.social.

The UCD volume ends with the year 1169.

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UCD Archives @ucdarchives.bsky.social · Aug 10

The signatories are:
Mícheál Ó Cléirigh
Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh
Fearfeasa Ó Maoilchonaire
Cú Choigcríche Ó Duibhgeannáin
Conaire Ó Cléirigh
Muiris Ó Maoilchonaire

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UCD Archives @ucdarchives.bsky.social · Aug 10

The Annals of the Four Masters were completed and signed #OTD 1636.

This is the signature page (UCD-OFM Ms A13).

The Annals are a chronicle of Irish history from AM 2242 to AD 1616. They were written, in Irish, between 22 January 1632 and 10 August 1636.

www.isos.dias.ie

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Maddalena Marinari, Ph. D. @irpinaingiro.bsky.social · Aug 5

Really looking forward to this event next week! I can’t wait to learn from @emilymitchelleaton.bsky.social and @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social. This promises to be another great @iehs.bsky.social online book event! Registration details 👇🏽

Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · Aug 5

***A week from today***

Join us at 4:15 PM EST on Tuesday, August 12 for our next online book event with @emilymitchelleaton.bsky.social and @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social. Hongdeng Gao will moderate the discussion.

Register: iehs.org/event/online...

Summer 2025 Online Books Series

Visit the post for more.

iehs.org

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Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · Aug 5

***History grad students***

Check out the opportunity below:

Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · Aug 5

***Attention graduate students***

Apply to the George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award!

IEHS invites submissions for two awards of $3,500 each (up from $1,000) to help grad students with dissertations on U.S. immigration, emigration, or ethnic history, broadly defined.

iehs.org/awards/georg...

George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award

Visit the post for more.

iehs.org

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Cian T. McMahon, PhD @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social · Aug 5

@costelkh.bsky.social and I were delighted to see our @routledgehistory.bsky.social @routledgebooks.bsky.social History of Irish America warmly reviewed by Bill Mulligan in the latest issue of the Irish Literary Supplement!

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social · Jul 30

I haven't really taken to audiobooks yet for scholarly works, but lots of my colleagues and students like the format, and this is an excellent reading of my book by the acclaimed voice actor Bill Andrew Quinn @oxfordacademic.bsky.social
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50% OFF The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Today the United States considers immigration a federal matter. Yet, despite America's reputation as a 'nation of immigrants,' the Constitution is silent on the admission, exclusion, an...

www.audiobooks.com

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Peter Rees @peternrees.bsky.social · Jul 29

We treat Channel crossings today as exceptional, and the RNLI is called a "migrant taxi service." However, people have long sought refuge across the Channel. On this day in 1939, two German refugees were rescued in the Channel by the RNLI and brought to safety in the UK.

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · Jul 23

***Save the Date!***

The IEHS Graduate and Early Career Affairs Committee is excited to hold the next virtual mentorship event on Thursday, October 2 from 5:00PM to 6:15PM EST. The event is open to graduate students, early career historians, and independent scholars.

Stay tuned!

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Sophie Cooper @sophcocooper.bsky.social · Oct 24

Very happy that 'Blue Sunglasses and New Habits: Female Correspondence Networks and the Irish Religious Diaspora' is now out as part of a great double issue
@iehs.bsky.social Journal of American Ethnic History ed. by Cian McMahon & Darragh Gannon
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss...

Abstract. During the nineteenth century female Irish religious orders
established missions across the Irish diaspora which were designed
with flexibility and adaptation in mind. The Sisters of Mercy’s personal letter networks allowed these women, who were often very
young, to continue their religious and technical “apprenticeship” while
abroad. These letters enabled women in the diaspora to maintain a
sense of consistency and belonging across the oceans: with their sisters
in Ireland and elsewhere in the world on an ethnic and institutional
level. Engaging with these letters as both intimate conversations and
professional reflections presents opportunities for investigating how
long-distance institutional memory was developed and a continuing
connection to Ireland and Irishness maintained. This article moves
the focus of ethnic culture brokers from the priest and bishop to the
formal and informal networks of women religious who worked within a
system designed for men. In doing so, it demonstrates that these letters
provided an important extra layer to public global Irish networks, a
layer which acted as both a whisper network and an opportunity for
reflection on efficient methods for varied work in large, fluctuating,
and cross-class ethnic communities

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Cian T. McMahon, PhD @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social · Jul 18

Spot on!

Ferriter reminds us that the people burning immigrants in effigy last week are descendants of those who fled Ulster with hopes for better lives in the mid-eighteenth century.

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