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Tony Bucher is President of the San Francisco Irish Literary and Historical Society of the San Francisco Bay Area, and founder and president the Hinterland West festival. He writes a monthly column for the Irish Herald newspaper and regularly presents

Author of ‘Revolution at the Waldorf: America and the Irish War of Independence’ (2022) and ‘Crowdfunding the Revolution: The First Dáil Loan and the Battle for Irish Independence’ (2020).

Author of “The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America’s First Labor War” (Fordham University Press, 2015), and “Ambush at Central Park: When the IRA Came to New York,” (Fordham University Press, 2023)

Senior law partner, Kauff,McGuire &Margols,LLC. Former visiting professor, Faculty of Law, University College Dublin.

My interest in Irish studies started with a dual biography of family members of Irish descent which resulted in several ACIS regional conference presentations, three peer-reviewed journal articles and a trade book with a foreword from David Emmons. My subjects,

I completed her PhD at Brunel University London in 2019, where she received the Vice-Chancellor’s Prize for Doctoral Research in the same year. I published two articles in Studi Irlandesi (‘Can I Write About It Yet?: The Influence of Politics