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Tiffany Thompson is a history Ph.D. candidate at Boston College. She is also affiliated with the Irish Studies Program. Her research focuses on women and youth in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. Still in the early stages of dissertation research,

Rob Savage directs the Boston College Irish Studies Program and a member of the university’s History faculty. He teaches Irish, British and Atlantic World history and interdisciplinary courses with colleagues in Philosophy, Fine Art and English. Savage’s books and articles

Cassidy Allen is a PhD candidate in English at Boston College. She primarily studies 19th and 20th century Irish literature, with special interests in Irish women writers and queer theory. She is also interested in identity studies. She has presented

James M. Smith is a Professor in the English Department and Irish Studies Program at Boston College. He has published articles in Signs, The Journal of the History of Sexuality, Éire-Ireland and ELH. His first book, Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries and