In today’s Irish Times I argue that it is time to start imagining and planning for a United Ireland.
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Irish Times Op-Ed: Planning for a United Ireland
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BBC Arts Short Film
As a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker, I made this short film about my research on food history and religion for BBC Arts. Many thanks to Emily Codling and Michael Pappas from BBC Scotland, and to everyone at Giffnock Synagogue for all their help with the filming and production!
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Islam & Modernity
In today’s Irish Times, I review Christopher de Bellaigue’s new book The Islamic Enlightenment, which explores the history of the Islamic world’s engagement with modernity.
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‘St Patrick’s Vermin’
I review Hidetaka Hirota’s Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States & the 19th Century Origins of American Immigration Policy in today’s Irish Times.
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FT op-ed: ‘An open, creative Ireland could be an example as others turn inward’
Today’s Financial Times has a supplement on Dublin’s future as a financial centre after Brexit. In an op-ed I argue that Ireland can offer a powerful example of openness as Britain and others turn away from trade and immigration.
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Books for Brexit
On BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking, I discussed what books we (and the negotiators) should be reading to deal with Brexit. My suggestions were Voltaire’s Candide, Ali Smith’s new Autumn, Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, and Sebastian Brant’s Ship of Fools. The classicist Edith Hall, the novelist Elif Shafak, and the international relations analyst Alan Mendoza also contributed. The programme is available here.
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Other Voices/Ireland’s Edge
I was invited to speak about Irish emigration and diaspora at the Other Voices/Ireland’s Edge festival in Dingle. BBC DJ Annie Mac, CNN editor Blathnaid Healy, UCC Professor Piaras Mac Éinrí, and I discussed post-crash emigration and return, being Irish in Britain after Brexit, emigrant support, and direct provision and immigration in Ireland. Other speakers at the event included Intel Vice-President and anthropologist Genevieve Bell, UCD Professor Diarmaid Ferriter, and DCU President Briain Mac Craith. You can find a video showcasing Other Voices here. Last year at the event I wrote this piece for The Irish Times.
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Historian & Writer
I am a historian, writer and reviewer. My writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Financial Times, The Irish Times, and elsewhere, and I have worked with radio and TV as a BBC New Generation Thinker.
My first book on food history is out now with Bloomsbury, and you can learn more about my research here. I am currently an Editorial Fellow at History Workshop, and writing freelance.
I worked previously at the Department of Economic History at the LSE, where I was a research partner on an EU project on the history of citizenship; my colleagues and I have recently published papers from our work in Theory & Society, the European Review of Economic History, and the Journal of Social History. I hold a D.Phil in Economic & Social History from Balliol College, Oxford, and previously studied History at Trinity College, Dublin.
I also worked with the Royal Historical Society in London, where I was a co-author of landmark reports on race and gender in UK History.
I also work with the Ireland’s Edge conference at the Other Voices festivals in Dingle and elsewhere, where I have hosted discussions on migration, identity, culture, and sustainability.
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Should we give historical amnesia a chance?
I review David Rieff’s provocative new book on historical memory, In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory & its Ironies, in The Irish Times.
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