END OF ONE CHAPTER AND THE BEGINNING OF ANOTHER, May 2023My last day on the campus of UMASS-Amherst. It's been a real privilege and a wonderful experience to engage with students in America. However, I've started on a new book project and want to concentrate on writing full-time. The new book project entitled Thirty Years of Change, Ireland,1993-2023, is based on research I began in 1990s when I was working at Trinity College, Dublin. It concerns women living in various locations on the island of Ireland describing their lives and work, inside the home or outside the home, and their views on Irish society. This summer, 2023, I meet again with a number of participants from this original group who have witnessed major social changes in Irish society over a thirty-year period. The aim is to document their experiences and perspectives on those changes, including, for example, unprecedented inward migration from the 2000s, unparalleled advances in legislation enabling divorce, abortion and marriage equality, and the rise, fall and rise again of the Celtic Tiger economy. See www.ocainternational.com for information. I see this work as a compantion to my earlier works dealing with Ireland and migration, since I anticipate that inward migration to Ireland will loom large in the analysis. Therefore, the arc of the three works will span over 100 years of Irish migration. The earlier books were published by Cork University Press/Attic – Models for Movers: Irish Women’s Emigration to America (2015), Irish Transatlantics, 1980-2015 (2018).

I published a revised twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Models for Movers: Irish Women's Emigration to America (Cork Uni Press, 2015), re emigration in 1920s, 1950s, 1980s.I published a companion volume, Irish Transatlantics, 1980-2015 (Cork Uni Press, 2018). It brings the story of Irish-US migration up to the twenty-first century and concerns the narratives of Irish men as well as women from 1980s wave, resident now in Ireland or America.

Íde B. O'Carroll, PhD, Visiting Scholar, Glucksman Ireland House, New York University, conducts research on 'The New Irish' in the USA and Ireland for the Archives of Irish America Oral History Project, NYU.

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