Mary C. Kelly is Professor of History at Franklin Pierce University. She earned an MA in Modern Irish History from University of Galway and a Ph.D. in Modern American History from Syracuse University. She publishes on the 19th century immigrant experience in spheres of political culture, faith, and enduring relationship with Ireland. Her scholarship includes her edition of Navigating Historical Crosscurrents in the Irish Atlantic: Essays for Catherine B. Shannon (Cork UP, 2022), Ireland’s Great Famine in Irish American History (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014) and The Shamrock and the Lily (Peter Lang, 2005), and articles. She has served as Faculty Union President at FPU, and currently coordinates FPU’s History Department and Global Irish Studies Certificate. In her role as a Program Speaker with New Hampshire Humanities, she delivers public talks on aspects of Ireland’s history and selected texts. She hails from Westport, Co. Mayo.