Kevin Kenny's work delves into the history of migration and popular protest within the Atlantic world, examining how early visions of utopian harmony disintegrated under the weight of colonialist expansion and violence. He explores the erosion of religious tolerance and social peace, revealing the devastating consequences for indigenous populations. Kenny also focuses on Irish migrants, analyzing the translation of agrarian protest traditions into American industrial settings and the broader narrative of Irish migration. His research continues to investigate the enduring meaning of immigration throughout American history.
This is the first comprehensive history of Ireland and the British Empire. It examines the different phases of Ireland's colonial status from the seventeenth century until the present, along with the impact of Irish people, politics, and nationalism on the Empire at large. The result is a new interpretation of Irish history and its place in the rise, expansion, and decline of the British Empire.
Did you know that we can lead longer and healthier lives by making simple changes right now?Professor Rose Anne Kenny has 35 years of experience at the forefront of ageing medicine. In Age Proof, she draws on her own pioneering research and the latest evidence to demystify why we age and shows us that 80% of our ageing biology is within our…
A sweeping history of nineteenth-century America, this book shows how slavery shaped immigration policy in the United States during the years when states controlled mobility within and across their borders. Only after the abolition of slavery did Congress begin to implement a national immigration policy, applying the policies of border control and deportation to different racial groups that continue to generate tensions between state and federal authority to the present day.
Twenty Irish immigrants, suspected of comprising a secret terrorist organization called the Molly Maguires, were executed in Pennsylvania in the 1870s for the murder of sixteen men. Making Sense of the Molly Maguires offers a narrative history of dramatic story, traces the origins of the Molly Maguires to Ireland, and, for this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, reflects on the enduring memory of the Molly Maguires in American popular culture.