A robust new vision of the Irish diaspora within the Atlantic context from the eighteenth century to the present
A native of Ireland, David T. Gleeson is a reader in history in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne. He is a former director of the College of Charleston's Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World program. His first book, The Irish in the South, 1815-1877, won the Donald Murphy Prize of the American Conference for Irish Studies.