I am a historian, writer and curator.
I host Ireland’s Edge at the Other Voices festivals, and I also present the Ireland’s Edge podcast. I am currently curator of ‘No Irish Need Apply? The Economic History of the Irish in England’, a special exhibition at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum in Dublin. My book reviews and essays appear regularly in The Irish Times and other newspapers. I have worked with BBC radio and TV as a BBC New Generation Thinker, RTÉ Radio, and was an artist-in-residence at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris.
My first book, on the history of food, is available from Bloomsbury, and you can learn more about my research here. I was previously a researcher in Economic History at the LSE, and lectured in Economic History at the University of Warwick. I worked with the Royal Historical Society, where I co-authored landmark reports on race and gender in UK History; I was also an Editorial Fellow at History Workshop, the radical history collective. I hold a D.Phil in Economic & Social History from Balliol College, Oxford, and previously studied History at Trinity College, Dublin.
You can follow me on Instagram @ChrisKissane.
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