Glucksman Ireland House NYU

Thank you to everyone who joined us at our screening of RTÉ's "From That Small Island" last Thursday. A special thanks to the film makers, contributors, and our co-hosts at the Consulate General of Ireland, New York for making it such a wonderful night!

An incredible evening in NYC for our screening. A huge thank you to the amazing team @irelandhousenyu & @irelandnyc 🇮🇪🇺🇸
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Wonderful to host historian @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social & filmmaker Briona Nic Dhiarmada for the NYC screening of "From That Small Island" @gihnyu.bsky.social -- the story of Ireland, across the millennia, in global context @tedsmyth.bsky.social

Thank you for your excellent questions, @migrantherstory.bsky.social! I loved being in conversation with you about Rituals of Migration for the @iehs.bsky.social blog. @kevinkenny.bsky.social @gihnyu.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social

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Interested in pursuing an MA in Irish and Irish-American studies? Join us next Thursday, October 30th at 5:00PM to learn more about our MA program from faculty, staff, and current graduate students.

Register through our link in bio!

Great celebration of "Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move" eds. @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @kevinkenny.bsky.social (especially the Irish dimensions of the book) at Boston College @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social @gihnyu.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social @tedsmyth.bsky.social

Join us tomorrow as we launch Vicki Mahaffey's The Joyce of Everyday Life, as we hear about "how might we learn to regain some of the childlike play with language and sense of delight in the ordinary that come so naturally to Joyce?"

Tickets available through our link in bio!

See "Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move" edited by @kevinkenny.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social -- the latest book in the Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series @nyupress.bsky.social @tedsmyth.bsky.social

We're so excited to have @sineadgleeson.bsky.social at GIH this Thursday to discuss her novel "Hagstone" in conversation with Douglas Stuart.

This was such a fantastic event! Many thanks to @kevinkenny.bsky.social and @gihnyu.bsky.social for hosting the launch of Rituals of Migration. The audience was truly amazing.

YouTube video by Glucksman Ireland House NYU Launch of Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move

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...
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We have a full house, but here's the registration link for Thursday, September 19 @gihnyu.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social ⬇️:
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@gihnyu.bsky.social Thursday, September 18 at 7pm

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

Our fall 2025 events calendar is packed with exciting new book launches, film premieres, and conversations. We can't wait to see you at Glucksman Ireland House this fall!

Sneak peek at one of the chapters in Rituals of Migration! The book will officially be out later this week. @nyupress.bsky.social @gihnyu.bsky.social

🗃️ Thank you @tedsmyth.bsky.social. It's the latest book in the Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series @nyupress.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️⬇️ @gihnyu.bsky.social nyupress.org/search-resul...

The cover of the latest bokk on the Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series, "Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move," edited by Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari, showing an image of an Italian family preparing to depart and and Irish family reading a letter from America.

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...

Love charms, frog bread, letters and wakes: How the Irish and Italians handled emigration to the US The editors of Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move highlight two great diasporas’ differences and similarities

🗃️"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...

Call for Proposals: Forging an American Musical Identity invites submissions on American music from the long 19th century. Interdisciplinary work and lecture-recitals welcome. NYC symposium, Jan 28-30, 2026. Proposals (max 300 words) due July 30: famisymposium2026@gmail.com

Brilliant colloquium organized by Joseph Nugent and Patrick Mullen for Bloomsday in Paris, hosted at the Irish Embassy. The event featured engaging panels, lectures, and conversations, including a panel moderated by our own Kelly Sullivan!

We at @gihnyu.bsky.social are hiring! uscareers-nyu.icims.com/jobs/14767/c...

Check out the launch of “Happy Ever After: Falling in Love with Irish Romance Fiction” on July 4! The exhibit is on view until November 9 at the Museum of Literature Ireland.

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

Leaving for America: Rituals of Packing and Departure - Books Ireland An excerpt from Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move (NYU Press).

'A small drop of menstrual fluid might be soaked into a piece of linen and then stitched into a male emigrant’s clothes.'

Rituals of Packing and Departure, by Bernadette Whelan 📕

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Here's a great excerpt from Bernadette Whelan's chapter on rituals of packing & departure in the book "Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move" edited by @kevinkenny.bsky.social ‬and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social published this week (June 15) by @nyupress.bsky.social @gihnyu.bsky.social

Excellent engaging lecture from Damian Shiels at @gihnyu.bsky.social on the Irish in the American Civil War

#IrishHistory #CivilWar #AmericanHistory #GlobalIrishNation

YouTube video by Glucksman Ireland House NYU 2025 Annual Ernie O' Malley Lecture: Damien Shiels

My Annual Ernie O'Malley Lecture @gihnyu.bsky.social which was also the U.S. launch of "Green & Irish Americans in the Union Military 1861-65" is now available online. Thanks to all at Glucksman for the invite and for a fantastic evening! youtu.be/VErT44uE4oE?...

Dr. Seán Kennedy is a scholar, writer and scavenger artist from Ireland. Also a faculty member and the coordinator of Irish Studies at Saint Mary's University. This image is one of their artworks, made of driftwood, fish net, bones and more. Learn more about the new book in this blog piece co-written by Kennedy and the book's co-editor Dr. Joseph Valente: https://euppublishingblog.com/2025/05/07/the-pharmakon-of-shame

Today at 4 pm AT: Join Dr. Seán Kennedy and Dr. Joseph Valente for the New York launch of Irish Shame: A Literary Reckoning. Hosted at @gihnyu.bsky.social in person & online! Find the Zoom link here: loom.ly/ekH89kA @unsettlingirish.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social #NYUAS #UnsettlingIrishStudies