Cian T. McMahon, PhD

Saint Patrick’s Day and the Rise of the Global Irish Diaspora A lecture by Cian T. McMahon: Saint Patrick's Day and the Rise of the Global Irish Diaspora Over the past three hundred years, Saint Patrick's Day has evolved from a religious holiday on a windswept island in the North Atlantic Ocean to an annual festival celebrated by millions of people worldwide. The anniversary's global popularity has gone hand in hand with the growth of the Irish diaspora, which is now estimated at approximately 70 million people worldwide, including over 30 million in the United States alone. Many like to say that "everybody is Irish" on Saint Patrick's Day. But how did this come to pass? How can a better understanding of the bourgeois hierarchy teach us something about the tangled relationships between migration and identity in modern human history? Cian T. McMahon uses stories of Saint Patrick's Day celebrations in specific times and places as signposts to a new history of the Irish diaspora. Cian T. McMahon is Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the author of a forthcoming global history of Saint Patrick's Day. His previous books include The Global Dimensions of Irish Identity: Race, Nation, and the Popular Press, 1840-1880 (2015), The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine (2021), and the Routledge History of Irish America, which is co-edited with Kathleen P. Costello-Sullivan in 2024. A free Irish-themed buffet luncheon will be provided during the lecture. This event is free and open to the public; no registration is required. Paid parking is available in the Commonwealth Avenue Garage. For more information, parking advice, and mobility assistance, please contact Caroline Pace: 617-552-3282 | caroline.pace@bc.edu This event is sponsored by Irish Studies and Boston College Libraries

I am so excited (and grateful) to deliver the #SaintPatricksDay lecture at @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social next Tuesday March 17 at 12pm in BC’s O’Neill Library. Would love to see any colleagues from @iehs.bsky.social or #IrishStudies who live/work in the area!

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Very excited to get up and running with this one: awarded £1.5m AHRC Standard Grant for Landscapes of Catastrophe, a project examining the context and impact of the Great Irish Famine www.qub.ac.uk/schools/NBE/...

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It's Irish American Heritage Month! Check out our podcast with Journal of American Ethnic History guest editors @dgannon2016.bsky.social + @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social
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Thanks, Hardeep. I wanted to yell “Let’s get ready to RUMMMMMMBLE!!!” but abjectly chickened out.

From Deportees to Coerced Workers: Managing Labor and Migration Within Mexico After the Bracero Program Abstract. In 1971, agents from Mexico's secret intelligence agency began to report that hundreds to thousands of Mexican men recently detained in the United States were being taken every night from Me...

New article from IEHS member Laura Gutierrez:

"From Deportees to Coerced Workers: Managing Labor and Migration Within Mexico After the Bracero Program,” in the Hispanic American Historical Review

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Call for Proposals Immigrants in Challenging Times Edited by Maddalena Marinari and Maria Cristina Garcia A Call for Papers Since the early republic, advocacy has played a crucial role in shaping the contours of state ...

***Call for Proposals for New Edited Volume***

Maddalena Marinari and Maria Cristina Garcia are inviting IEHS members to submit a paper proposal for an edited anthology, tentatively titled Immigrants in Challenging Times, by March 15, 2026.

More info and to submit: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Spring 2026 Online Books Series Visit the post for more.

I am so excited about tomorrow!

The @iehs.bsky.social Spring online book series!!

Come join us!!!

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***Online Virtual Book Event***

Please join our spring Online IEHS Book Series at 3:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday, March 4! Marla A. Ramirez and Reem Bailony will present their books. The event will be moderated by Mark Tseng-Putterman.

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***Online Virtual Book Event***

Please join our spring Online IEHS Book Series at 3:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday, March 4! Marla A. Ramirez and Reem Bailony will present their books. The event will be moderated by Mark Tseng-Putterman.

More info and register: iehs.org/event/online...

@irpinaingiro.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social

Spring 2026 Online Books Series Visit the post for more.

I am really looking forward to the next @iehs.bsky.social online book event (March 4, 3pm ET). Reem Bailony and Marla A. Ramirez, moderated by Mark Tseng-Putterman! iehs.org/event/online...

One of the absolute smartest people I know whose scholarship will force us to rethink how we teach the Famine in all its complexities. UL made an excellent inaugural selection. Congratulations, Pete!

Check out this book talk with IEHS member and past president @kevinkenny.bsky.social :

Wow, looks great, Anna!

New book from IEHS members Eric M. Adams and Jordan Stanger-Ross:

Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution (University of British Columbia Press, 2025)

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Pearl S. Buck on American Society: Towards a Multi-Racial (Post-Racial?) Future Novelist and social commentator Pearl S. Buck, best known for her writings on Asia, called, in an important 1937 article entitled “On Discovering America,” for Americans to be more open to immigrants ...

New article from IEHS member Robert Shaffer:

“Pearl S. Buck on American Society: Towards a Multi-Racial (Post-Racial?) Future,” Cowrie: Comparative and World Literature (November, 2025)

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

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Henderson, Nevada, 12:24pm

Meet the grandson of an Irish nationalist who became mayor of NY Zohran Mamdani will be New York's youngest mayor in more than a century - the youngest before him was the grandson of an Irish nationalist and largely forgotten

My article on another young New York Mayor is up! www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

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 …

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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The Objects That Immigrants Packed Tell a Story About What It Meant to Leave Home Forever A new collection co-edited by NYU scholar Kevin Kenny explores the things Irish and Italians carried with them to the New World during historic waves of migration

"The Objects That Immigrants Packed Tell a Story About What It Meant to Leave Home Forever." @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social @tedsmyth.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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I’ve always liked “stray” but yes, “feral” definitely works too.

You’re like that sneaky tomcat that keeps all of the local house cats up late, laughing after dark, long after the humans have gone to bed.

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

Congrats, Myles!!

Henderson, Nevada, 5:16pm

Really looking forward to this! Registration details below 👇🏽

Yep, corner of University Place and Waverly Place.

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

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

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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