Posts by Michael Quinlin

by Kevin Kenny Professor Kenny has a distinguished academic career as a teacher, researcher and writer, with a specialty on migration, especially pertaining to Irish, Jews, Africans and Asians. His latest book offers an original interpretation of “how slavery shaped immigration policy as it moved from the local to the national level in the period…

Samuel K. Fisher The tension between the British Empire and American colonies that led to the American Revolution is getting a fresh look by historians as a lead-up to the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026. Catholic University history professor Samuel K. Fisher’s new book examines the roles of Indigenous natives, Irish…

Peter Quinn Foreword by Dan Barry Prolific Bronx scribe Peter Quinn synthesizes his wideranging interests into a personal, engaging narrative that begins in his beloved Bronx and takes him to the political corridors of Albany. He shares some amusing political anecdotes along the way, and movingly, talks of his often complicated relationship with his father….

Sean Connolly On Every Tide explores not just Irish immigration to Boston and the United States but also to Britain and Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and South Africa and South America. It offers insights and anecdotes on what Irish Catholics had to overcome in the US, and how they overcame their victimized underclass status…

Robert J. Savage Focusing on the British broadcast media’s coverage of the conflict in Northern Ireland throughout the 1980s, beginning with the Hunger Strike in 1981, Savage explores the “incessant wrangling between Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s government and an aggressive broadcast media determined to provide objective news and information about the complexities of ‘the Troubles’…