Gráinne McEvoy
@grainnemcevoy.bsky.social
Native of Newry | Interloper Hoosier | Assistant Director of Research Programs, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, Notre Dame | Historian of U.S. immigration
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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
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Thank you @iehs.bsky.social @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @migrantherstory.bsky.social & Eunice Kim for this conversation on Rituals of Migration @nyupress.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Authors on Authors: Kevin Kenny & Maddalena Marinari
Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari, Rituals of Migration: Irish and Italians on the Move (New York University Press, 2025). In Rituals of Migration, editors Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari—with …
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October 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Thank you @iehs.bsky.social @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @migrantherstory.bsky.social & Eunice Kim for this conversation on Rituals of Migration @nyupress.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Lovely write up of the recent Flann O’Brien Conference, hosted by the Alley Theatre in collaboration with Derry City & Strabane District Council, Tourism NI, Strabane History Society, & @ndirishstudies.bsky.social. Congrats to all involved, especially Maebh Long and our own Brian Ó Conchubhair.
July 9, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Lovely write up of the recent Flann O’Brien Conference, hosted by the Alley Theatre in collaboration with Derry City & Strabane District Council, Tourism NI, Strabane History Society, & @ndirishstudies.bsky.social. Congrats to all involved, especially Maebh Long and our own Brian Ó Conchubhair.
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Irish abroad and Irish diaspora:
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is undertaking a consultation process to inform the Government’s new Diaspora Strategy. Fill in the survey below to ensure their new strategy meets diasporic needs and can adapt to evolving circumstances. #speirgorm
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is undertaking a consultation process to inform the Government’s new Diaspora Strategy. Fill in the survey below to ensure their new strategy meets diasporic needs and can adapt to evolving circumstances. #speirgorm
Global Irish Survey: Consultation for Irish Diaspora Strategy | Ireland.ie
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is pleased to announce that it is undertaking an extensive consultation process to inform the Government’s new Diaspora Strategy.
www.ireland.ie
July 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Irish abroad and Irish diaspora:
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is undertaking a consultation process to inform the Government’s new Diaspora Strategy. Fill in the survey below to ensure their new strategy meets diasporic needs and can adapt to evolving circumstances. #speirgorm
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is undertaking a consultation process to inform the Government’s new Diaspora Strategy. Fill in the survey below to ensure their new strategy meets diasporic needs and can adapt to evolving circumstances. #speirgorm
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We're Hiring:
The National Museum of Ireland is seeking a Curator of Contemporary Irish History
🕔 Deadline: Friday, 18 July 2025 at 17:00
📄 Learn more & apply: www.museum.ie/en-IE/About/...
#JobFairy #museumjobs
The National Museum of Ireland is seeking a Curator of Contemporary Irish History
🕔 Deadline: Friday, 18 July 2025 at 17:00
📄 Learn more & apply: www.museum.ie/en-IE/About/...
#JobFairy #museumjobs
July 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
We're Hiring:
The National Museum of Ireland is seeking a Curator of Contemporary Irish History
🕔 Deadline: Friday, 18 July 2025 at 17:00
📄 Learn more & apply: www.museum.ie/en-IE/About/...
#JobFairy #museumjobs
The National Museum of Ireland is seeking a Curator of Contemporary Irish History
🕔 Deadline: Friday, 18 July 2025 at 17:00
📄 Learn more & apply: www.museum.ie/en-IE/About/...
#JobFairy #museumjobs
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Belated, but what a good time the @flannobriensoc.bsky.social conference in Strabane was 🚲
July 6, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Belated, but what a good time the @flannobriensoc.bsky.social conference in Strabane was 🚲
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Incredibly excited to share that the special issue on Citizenship and Migration that @migrantherstory.bsky.social and I coedited for the Journal of American and Ethnic History is out: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss.... The introduction we wrote is open access
Volume 44 Issue 4 | Journal of American Ethnic History | Scholarly Publishing Collective
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July 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Incredibly excited to share that the special issue on Citizenship and Migration that @migrantherstory.bsky.social and I coedited for the Journal of American and Ethnic History is out: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss.... The introduction we wrote is open access
Very excited to see this book (supported by the @arinsproject.bsky.social, a joint initiative of @ndirishstudies.bsky.social and @ria.ie) coming to fruition. More here: shop.ria.ie/products/for...
June 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Very excited to see this book (supported by the @arinsproject.bsky.social, a joint initiative of @ndirishstudies.bsky.social and @ria.ie) coming to fruition. More here: shop.ria.ie/products/for...
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Wonderful joyous evening at the Irish Embassy launching the 'Aunties in England' podcast
Delighted to be part of the panel discussion alongside the brilliant author Catherine Dunne and Ashford Place's Renee Gallagher
🎙️You can listen to the podcast here👇
open.spotify.com/episode/09pJ...
Delighted to be part of the panel discussion alongside the brilliant author Catherine Dunne and Ashford Place's Renee Gallagher
🎙️You can listen to the podcast here👇
open.spotify.com/episode/09pJ...
June 19, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Wonderful joyous evening at the Irish Embassy launching the 'Aunties in England' podcast
Delighted to be part of the panel discussion alongside the brilliant author Catherine Dunne and Ashford Place's Renee Gallagher
🎙️You can listen to the podcast here👇
open.spotify.com/episode/09pJ...
Delighted to be part of the panel discussion alongside the brilliant author Catherine Dunne and Ashford Place's Renee Gallagher
🎙️You can listen to the podcast here👇
open.spotify.com/episode/09pJ...
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“How do we talk about our shared island when our media remains so divided?”
Join Sarah Carey, Eamon Quinn, Amanda Ferguson, Sarah Creighton & Eoin Brannigan on July 9th for a powerful panel on media, borders & belonging.
🎟️ Get your tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...
Join Sarah Carey, Eamon Quinn, Amanda Ferguson, Sarah Creighton & Eoin Brannigan on July 9th for a powerful panel on media, borders & belonging.
🎟️ Get your tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...
June 18, 2025 at 10:04 AM
“How do we talk about our shared island when our media remains so divided?”
Join Sarah Carey, Eamon Quinn, Amanda Ferguson, Sarah Creighton & Eoin Brannigan on July 9th for a powerful panel on media, borders & belonging.
🎟️ Get your tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...
Join Sarah Carey, Eamon Quinn, Amanda Ferguson, Sarah Creighton & Eoin Brannigan on July 9th for a powerful panel on media, borders & belonging.
🎟️ Get your tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...
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As part of the Ulster Fleadh in Warrenpoint next month, I’ll be talking about Dirty Linen alongside Eoin McNamee, who’ll be talking about his
great new autobiographical novel, The Bureau. It’s free in!
ulsterfleadh.ie/events/local...
great new autobiographical novel, The Bureau. It’s free in!
ulsterfleadh.ie/events/local...
June 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
As part of the Ulster Fleadh in Warrenpoint next month, I’ll be talking about Dirty Linen alongside Eoin McNamee, who’ll be talking about his
great new autobiographical novel, The Bureau. It’s free in!
ulsterfleadh.ie/events/local...
great new autobiographical novel, The Bureau. It’s free in!
ulsterfleadh.ie/events/local...
Excellent opportunity here!
We have a Fulbright Fellowship in #IrishStudies for US faculty available for 2027 - see here for details: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
New Fulbright Fellowship in Irish Studies at Queen's University Belfast available from 2027
The US-UK Fulbright Commission's Queen's University Belfast Award in Irish Studies covers a six-month appointment to research, lecture and teach in Irish Studies in Northern Ireland.
www.qub.ac.uk
June 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Excellent opportunity here!
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
June 4, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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
Reason #485 why we love, love LOVE (and will always support) @realdollyparton.bsky.social’s Imagination Library.
June 4, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Reason #485 why we love, love LOVE (and will always support) @realdollyparton.bsky.social’s Imagination Library.
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Delighted to share that the special issue of Irish University Review (IUR 55.1) that I co-edited with Dr Emma Radley — ‘Irish Studies: Beyond the Text’ — has now been published by Edinburgh University Press: www.euppublishing.com/toc/iur/55/1. Our thirteen essays (plus intro) follow!
#IrishStudies
#IrishStudies
Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - iur: Vol 55, No 1
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May 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Delighted to share that the special issue of Irish University Review (IUR 55.1) that I co-edited with Dr Emma Radley — ‘Irish Studies: Beyond the Text’ — has now been published by Edinburgh University Press: www.euppublishing.com/toc/iur/55/1. Our thirteen essays (plus intro) follow!
#IrishStudies
#IrishStudies
Delighted to be here at the @ulstermuseum.org in Belfast for New Histories of Irish Art and Modernism: A Conference in Honor of S.B. Kennedy. @ndirishstudies.bsky.social @keoughglobalnd.bsky.social @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Delighted to be here at the @ulstermuseum.org in Belfast for New Histories of Irish Art and Modernism: A Conference in Honor of S.B. Kennedy. @ndirishstudies.bsky.social @keoughglobalnd.bsky.social @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social
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One of the many fine works of the Irish poet, Paul Durcan, who passed away this weekend - few have ever written better on death
May 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
One of the many fine works of the Irish poet, Paul Durcan, who passed away this weekend - few have ever written better on death
This blog post captures the focus and spirit of “Rituals of Migration” so well, and the tangible and intangible ways in which ways in which we experience migration, as individuals, families, and communities. Thanks again to @kevinkenny.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social
🧵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...
Ten Rituals of Migration by Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari - NYU Press
What do migrants do, feel, think, eat, and carry with them—on the eve of departure, in transit, and when returning home? Rituals of Migration offers snapshots of Italian and Irish migrants... READ MOR...
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May 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
This blog post captures the focus and spirit of “Rituals of Migration” so well, and the tangible and intangible ways in which ways in which we experience migration, as individuals, families, and communities. Thanks again to @kevinkenny.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social
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I'm so honored to contribute a chapter to "Rituals of Migration"! My chapter examines how the Irish poor became deportable upon entering public almshouses in the US and Britain in the 19th century. Admission into almshouses served as a ritual for forced exit from the country. @nyupress.bsky.social
🗃️ 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
Rituals of Migration
Italian and Irish immigrant experiencesWhen people migrate, they often perform social and cultural rituals along the way. The idea of rites of passage—with...
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May 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I'm so honored to contribute a chapter to "Rituals of Migration"! My chapter examines how the Irish poor became deportable upon entering public almshouses in the US and Britain in the 19th century. Admission into almshouses served as a ritual for forced exit from the country. @nyupress.bsky.social
This was such a personal joy to work on, with a wonderful bunch of colleagues, and two exceptional editors. I’m thrilled with the feedback we’re getting so far! @ndirishstudies.bsky.social @keoughglobalnd.bsky.social @notredame.bsky.social
🗃️ 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
Rituals of Migration
Italian and Irish immigrant experiencesWhen people migrate, they often perform social and cultural rituals along the way. The idea of rites of passage—with...
nyupress.org
May 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This was such a personal joy to work on, with a wonderful bunch of colleagues, and two exceptional editors. I’m thrilled with the feedback we’re getting so far! @ndirishstudies.bsky.social @keoughglobalnd.bsky.social @notredame.bsky.social
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73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need:
-Paid family leave
-Equal pay
-Universal childcare
(But get your mom flowers, too)
-Paid family leave
-Equal pay
-Universal childcare
(But get your mom flowers, too)
May 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need:
-Paid family leave
-Equal pay
-Universal childcare
(But get your mom flowers, too)
-Paid family leave
-Equal pay
-Universal childcare
(But get your mom flowers, too)
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Applications are open for the 2026 O’Donnell Fellowship in Irish Studies at St Mary's Newman Academic Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia. Information about the program and how to apply is in the link. The application deadline is Friday 11 July 2025. www.snac.unimelb.edu.au/odonnell-fel...
O’Donnell Fellowship
www.snac.unimelb.edu.au
May 7, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Applications are open for the 2026 O’Donnell Fellowship in Irish Studies at St Mary's Newman Academic Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia. Information about the program and how to apply is in the link. The application deadline is Friday 11 July 2025. www.snac.unimelb.edu.au/odonnell-fel...
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Applications are invited for the position of Programme Manager (Publications) based at the Royal Irish Academy.
Closing date: 23 May 2025
https://www.ria.ie/about/careers/vacancy-programme-manager-publications/
#JobFairy #DublinJobs #JobsIreland
Closing date: 23 May 2025
https://www.ria.ie/about/careers/vacancy-programme-manager-publications/
#JobFairy #DublinJobs #JobsIreland
May 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Applications are invited for the position of Programme Manager (Publications) based at the Royal Irish Academy.
Closing date: 23 May 2025
https://www.ria.ie/about/careers/vacancy-programme-manager-publications/
#JobFairy #DublinJobs #JobsIreland
Closing date: 23 May 2025
https://www.ria.ie/about/careers/vacancy-programme-manager-publications/
#JobFairy #DublinJobs #JobsIreland
