Sarah O’Brien is a lecturer in Education in Mary Immaculate College, with special interest in oral history and Irish emigration. She received a PhD in History from MIC (2009), and a B.Ed in Education (2004) . Her doctoral research was funded by the Irish Research Council and investigated Irish associationalism in post-World War II Birmingham. Her subsequent research on the Irish in Argentina won an outstanding research award from Riocht na Midhe

Her books include Of Memory and the Misplaced: Irish Immigrant Life Writing in the United States (Indiana University Press, 2024) and The Irish in Argentina (Palgrave, 2018)