BOOK LAUNCH: Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History

Mary M. Burke’s Oxford University Press book, Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History, was published in the UK in December 2022 and the US in March 2023. The US release will be launched by Myles Dungan at the national ACIS conference at San José State University, California, which will run from June 7-10, 2023.  Race, Politics, and Irish America uses the

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NEW BOOK: Race, Politics, and Irish America – A Gothic History

By Mary M Burke Published by Oxford University Press Race, Politics, and Irish America examines the words and lives of Black and white American and Irish-American writers, performers, and politicians – from Andrew Jackson and Frank Yerby, to Grace Kelly and Rihanna – to illuminate centuries of Irish presence in the Americas, from transportees to the seventeenth-century Caribbean, to eighteenth-century Ulster

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