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Noelle Sullivan (Nollaig Ní Shuilleabhain) maintains the MONTANA GAEL IRISH IMAGES archive, a private conservation and research archive for historic Irish photographs and ephemera, in West Yellowstone, Montana. An artist and poet with Beara roots, she has had poems in

Martin Burns is an independent scholar based in Washington, DC. Research interests include: Irish America, American support for the Irish nationalism, and the Irish Civil War.

Williams is a retired historian, writer and musician. He earned a BA from Lafayette College, a MA and Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University, and a MLIS degree from Indiana University. He has taught at Southern Illinois University; the National

While a student at SUNY Geneseo, I focused my studies on the 1916 Rising, as well as Dublin tenement life at the turn of the twentieth century. I also took a class on Irish poetry analysis, of which I find

I have written about Irish historic and contemporary issues for more than 25 years at popular newspapers and magazines, academic journals, and websites, including more than 1,000 entries on my blog, markholan.org, since 2012. I specialize in exploring how the

Colleen Hennessy is a graduate of Stonecoast MFA at the University of Southern Maine, where she studied creative nonfiction writing, and taught writing and research to social work undergraduates. She also holds a MA in community development from the National

AB, MA Seton Hall University, NJ 1954, 1960, Ed.D. University of Rochester, NY 1979 Taught and Supervised English in public schools in NJ and NY 1958- 1991. Taught Irish Culture courses at St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY 1992-1996. Discussion