I am the Executive Director of the American Irish Historical Society in New York City.Before that, I was the Executive Director of the Irish American Heritage Museum in Albany, for six years before beginning my role here on Fifth Avenue. Before 2018, I taught Irish and Irish American History and was an Associate Director at Fordham University’s Institute of Irish Studies. I completed my PhD at Fordham, writing about Irish and German immigrants in New York at the turn of the twentieth century, as they grappled with the immigration restriction movements of that time. I have a Master’s degree in Anglo-Irish Relations in the 20th Century from University College Dublin and a BA in English and History from UCD. I completed my HDip in Education in University College Cork.