Wednesday, 4 May 2022, 1 – 2pm

An 'in conversation' event featuring Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellow Dr Karly Kehoe (Saint Mary’s University, Nova Scotia, Canada), hosted by Dr Ciaran O'Neill, Deputy Director Trinity Long Room Hub.

About Dr Karly Kehoe

Dr Karly Kehoe is the Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Communities at Saint Mary’s University in Nova Scotia, Canada. She researches religious minority migration (focusing on Irish and Scottish Catholics) and settler colonialism in the north Atlantic world.

She is the convenor of the Scottish Historical Review Trust, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and is the chairperson and academic lead of the Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies. She co-edits the Histories of the Scottish North Atlantic book series with Edinburgh University Press and her second monograph, Empire and Emancipation: Scottish and Irish Catholics at the Atlantic Fringe, 1780-1850, was published in February 2022 by Toronto University Press. While at Trinity, she will be working on the A Catholic Atlantic project which explores the links between Scotland and Ireland, the Caribbean, and northeastern British North America.

Dr Ciaran O'Neill

Ciaran O'Neill began his term as Deputy Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub in September 2020. Ciaran also serves as Trinity's Community Liaison Officer. A nineteenth century historian, his first monograph, Catholics of Consequence (2014) wone the JS Donnelly Prize at the American Conference for Irish Studies. He is editor (with Finola O'Kane Crimmins) of the forthcoming MUP collection, Ireland, Slavey and the Caribbean (2021) and is currently completing a second monograph entitled Life in a Palliative State. His current research projects focus on the Eastern Caribbean. Ciaran is a series editor for both Liverpool University Press’s Reappraisals in Irish History and the SSNCI series. He has held visiting research fellowships at the University of Sâo Paulo, Boston College, University of Notre Dame, and at St Mary's University Halifax.

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