Manhattan, New York, 6:18pm

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. 🎉🎉🎉

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...

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].

🗃️"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

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...

Check out this book talk with Immigration and Ethnic History Society Board Member @sfahrenthold.bsky.social: youtu.be/-UJHOuqFPvg?...

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. 3/3

The signatories are: Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh Fearfeasa Ó Maoilchonaire Cú Choigcríche Ó Duibhgeannáin Conaire Ó Cléirigh Muiris Ó Maoilchonaire 2/3

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 1/3

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 👇🏽

***History grad students*** Check out the opportunity below:

@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!

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 ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

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.

***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!

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...

***Graduate students studying migration and/or ethnic history*** Apply to the Pozzetta Dissertation Award! IEHS invites submissions for two awards of $3,500 each (up from $1,000) to help graduate students with their dissertations. More information is available here: iehs.org/awards/georg...

Join me and Omar Valerio-Jiménez with Hongdeng Gao for a discussion of immigration histories and politics (and our books!) on August 12!

The use of citizenship to order power in the United States isn't new. It has a long and troubling history. Today is publication day for a new scholarship on this topic. Maddalena Marinari and I --with five superb historians-- share. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss...

NYUP editors, Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari, explore the captivating rituals of Irish and Italian emigration to the US in their new @irishtimes.com essay! From "American wakes" to frog bread charms, discover how people made sense of monumental journeys.

Terrific book, buy it for your Irish or Italian families!

Interested in global history in the contexts of migration, diaspora, and empire? See the Glusksman Irish Diaspora Series, an initiative by @gihnyu.bsky.social that I have the pleasure of editing for @nyupress.bsky.social: nyupress.org/search-resul...

Really exciting to see excellent article in *Irish Times* last week on a new edited volume to which I had the privilege of contributing a chapter. Written by the fearless co-editors @kevinkenny.bsky.social @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @iehs.bsky.social #IrishStudies www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

🗃️"Love charms, frog bread, letters and wakes: How the Irish & Italians handled emigration to the US" by the editors of a new collection "Rituals of Migration" @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social @gihnyu.bsky.social @irishtimes.com @tedsmyth.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

The open call for the 2025-2026 cohort of Public Religion Research Institute ( @prri.org ) Public Fellows is now live! PRRI seeks 12 mid-career scholars interested in the intersection of religion, culture, and politics for an 11-month, non-residential fellowship. Due 7/25/25. prri.org/open-call/

Montreux, Lake Geneva, 11:54am

***Apply for Awards from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS)*** The IEHS offers a number of prestigious awards that recognize excellence in scholarship in the fields of immigration and ethnic history. iehs.org/awards/

Orlando, Florida, 7:51pm

www.clarku.edu/news/2025/06... #Skystorians we’ve lost a friend and a great scholar, Amy Richter of Clark University. Please repost.

My chapter in “Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move” (out this month with @nyupress.bsky.social) looks at the “Returned Yank” in literary representations of Irish return migration. 1/4 @gihnyu.bsky.social @kevinkenny.bsky.social @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @ndirishstudies.bsky.social

This article wouldn’t be possible without the groundbreaking work of scholars of Irish America like @kevinkenny.bsky.social and @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social, and of German America like Alison Clark Efford and @honeckmischa.bsky.social

Irish Americans made the Franco-Prussian war a cause célèbre - one claimed the ‘Irish people have a quarrel of seven hundred years to fight out with England - now the underhand ally of Prussia’ and ‘should wish success to France, which has always been their friend and the foe of England’

When @bostoncollege.bsky.social first-year writing students entered Burns this year, they encountered collection materials spanning the 14th century to the present. Read more abt our collaborative pilot program welcoming freshman to Burns to engage with rare books and archives! tinyurl.com/3xjj87vz

I was so excited to receive my copy of the *Rituals of Migration* vol that @kevinkenny.bsky.social @irpinaingiro.bsky.social co-edited. My chapter uses the diary of a C19th Presbyterian minister to understand how migrants used religious rituals to bring order and comfort to difficult sea voyages.

🧵To mark the publication of "Rituals of Migration" @kevinkenny.bsky.social & @irpinaingiro.bsky.social 👏 to the Bluesky contributors @hidehirota.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @appalachianphilly.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social nyupress.org/blog/2025/05...

It was such a pleasure to work with @irpinaingiro.bsky.social & all the contributors on "Rituals of Migration" @nyupress.bsky.social. Of interest, we hope, to @kangborderlaw.bsky.social @dbattisti.bsky.social @juliarosekraut.bsky.social @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social & other friends @iehs.bsky.social

Really excited to see this book in print! Many of the authors are also @iehs.bsky.social members. It was truly an honor to work with so many talented scholars!

🗃️ “This incredible book presents a compelling new way to understand migration & the emotional toll it exacts. An essential new contribution to the study of global migration past and present.”~Erika Lee, Harvard University, on "Rituals of Migration" @nyupress.bsky.social nyupress.org/978147982513...

🗃️ "Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari have enriched and enlarged our understanding of the Irish and Italian diasporas.”~Colm Tóibín on "Rituals of Migration" @nyupress.bsky.social y.social @martindoyle.bsky.social @tedsmyth.bsky.social @gihnyu.bsky.social 🧵4/5

🗃️ “Vivid, sympathetic and deeply moving, these essays reveal the intimacy and humanity behind the statistics” ~Fintan O’Toole on "Rituals of Migration" @nyupress.bsky.social @fotoole.bsky.social @martindoyle.bsky.social sky.social @tedsmyth.bsky.social @gihnyu.bsky.social 🧵3/5

🗃️ 👏 To all the contributors to "Rituals of Migration": Jill Bender @braun-strumfels.bsky.social Donna Gabaccia @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social Linda Reeder @appalachianphilly.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social Bernadette Whelan Clara Zaccagnini 🧵2/5

🗃️ What do migrants think, feel, do, and pack on the eve of departure, in transit, and when returning home? See "Rituals of Migration" @nyupress.bsky.social edited by @kevinkenny.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social nyupress.org/978147982513... @gihnyu.bsky.social @tedsmyth.bsky.social 🧵1/5

Red Rock Canyon, Nevada, 12:22pm

Henderson, Nevada, 6:41pm

Be sure to check out the new spring issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History (JAEH), the official publication of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS): scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh

Stowaways got creative when fleeing the Great Irish Famine. When Patrick Cain was defrauded of his passage fare, he found a unique place to hide on board the ship. Worth noting: when he got caught, Patrick took the man who had defrauded him to court... and won! (Galway Vindicator, 27 April 1850)