If you look around, you might notice that the Irish seem to be everywhere today. As someone who has spent her entire adult life studying the history and politics of this small island in the north Atlantic, I can’t help noticing the ads on Netflix for the popular series Derry Read more…
I’ll be on Radio Kingston’s “The Source with Hillary Harvey” at 1pm on Friday, 9/27. We’ll be discussing the latest Brexit developments, and the impact of Brexit on Ireland. You can listen live, or hear a recording: https://radiokingston.org/en/broadcast/source-hillary-harvey
Returning to the United States from Ireland is always difficult, because I immediately miss the beautiful scenery, mellifluous speech, and friendly people of Dublin. This time, returning was particularly painful because the first news we heard about upon disembarking from our flight to Newark was that two mass shootings had Read more…
Many of my students and colleagues have been asking me some version of the question, “What the heck is going on in Northern Ireland?” As the only Ireland expert that anyone knows, I find myself giving a mini lecture on Irish history on a semi-regular basis since the murder of Read more…