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Kevin Kenny
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Historian of US immigration, 19th-century US, global migration, diaspora
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Glucksman Ireland House, NYU
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Faculty Fellowship in Irish History @GIHNYU starting September 2025, renewable annually for a term of up to three years. Details here ⬇️⬇️⬇️ : apply.interfolio.com/154500

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Just finishing the copy edits. TOC attached.

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Forthcoming in spring 2025 with NYU Press: "Rituals of Migration." @irpinaingiro.bsky.social

Book cover showing Italian emigrants departing and an Irish family reading a letter from America
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A myth with many meanings!

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"In an effort to resolve the dilemma, or at least to explain it away, the term Molly Maguires was expanded from a shorthand term for Irish laziness, violence, and depravity, to a general label covering all forms of labor activism." -- Making Sense of the Molly Maguires (1998 and 2023), p.286

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“As the case of the Irish unequivocally demonstrated, the social advancement of some was predicated in large part on the social degradation of others. This contradiction became even more pronounced with the advent of widespread wage labor and corporate control in the 1860s and 1870s." 1/2

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Kevin Kenny
@kevinkenny.bsky.social
Historian of US immigration, 19th-century US, global migration, diaspora
702 followers615 following187 posts