Narratives of the Occluded Irish Diaspora Subversive Voices

Mícheál Ó hAodha lectures in the Department of History, University of Limerick. He has published widely on Irish migration, the Irish diaspora, social geography and oral history. His books include American ‘Outsider’: Stories from the Irish Traveller Diaspora (2007, with T.J. Vernon), ‘The Turn of the Hand’: A Memoir from the Irish Margins (2010, with Mary Ward) and ‘On the Run’: The Diary of an Irish Republican (2011, with Ruan O’Donnell).
John O’Callaghan lectures in modern Irish and European history in the Department of History, University of Limerick. He is interested in processes of imperialism, decolonisation and post-colonialism. His publications include Teaching Irish Independence: History in Irish Secondary Schools, 1922-1972 (2009), Revolutionary Limerick: The Republican Campaign for Independence in Limerick, 1913-1921 (2010) and The Battle for Kilmallock (2011).