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
Thank you for coming! Lots of work to do now…
June 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Thank you for coming! Lots of work to do now…
Read more about the full book (and the many excellent contributions from my esteemed co-contributors) in this blogpost by our wonderful editors Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari nyupress.org/blog/2025/05..., and then read the book itself! 4/4
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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June 4, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Read more about the full book (and the many excellent contributions from my esteemed co-contributors) in this blogpost by our wonderful editors Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari nyupress.org/blog/2025/05..., and then read the book itself! 4/4
Mairéad in Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s short story “Floodtide” & Eilis from Colm Tóibín’s “Brooklyn.” As young women, daughters, wives, & neighbours, they navigate their returns to Connemara & Enniscorthy, in very different historical moments, with a mixture of nostalgia, naivety, regret & ambivalence. 3/4
June 4, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Mairéad in Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s short story “Floodtide” & Eilis from Colm Tóibín’s “Brooklyn.” As young women, daughters, wives, & neighbours, they navigate their returns to Connemara & Enniscorthy, in very different historical moments, with a mixture of nostalgia, naivety, regret & ambivalence. 3/4
During my own (many) migrations and re-migrations, I’d noticed these fictional characters, identifying with certain rituals in their returns. There’s a multitude of “Returned Yanks” in Irish literature, but few are written from the perspective of the returnee in a sustained way. I focus on two… 2/4
June 4, 2025 at 1:56 AM
During my own (many) migrations and re-migrations, I’d noticed these fictional characters, identifying with certain rituals in their returns. There’s a multitude of “Returned Yanks” in Irish literature, but few are written from the perspective of the returnee in a sustained way. I focus on two… 2/4