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Kevin Kenny

Professor of History

Kevin Kenny’s latest book is Diaspora: A Very Short Introduction (2013).

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The Irish diaspora

There are 70 million people around the world who claim Irish ancestry. What shaped and made the great Irish emigration?

Kevin Kenny