TLRH | Fellow in Focus with Dr Karly Kehoe (Saint Mary’s University,Canada)

Wednesday, 4 May 2022, 1 – 2pm An 'in conversation' event featuring
Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellow Dr Karly Kehoe
(Saint Mary’s University, Nova Scotia, Canada), hosted by Dr Ciaran
O'Neill, Deputy Director Trinity Long Room Hub. About Dr Karly
Kehoe Dr Karly Kehoe is the Canada Research Chair in Atlantic
Canada Communities at Saint Mary’s University in Nova Scotia,
Canada. She researches religious minority migration (focusing on
Irish and Scottish Catholics) and settler colonialism in the north
Atlantic world. She is the convenor of the Scottish Historical
Review Trust, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and is the
chairperson and academic lead of the Gorsebrook Research Institute
for Atlantic Canada Studies. She co-edits the Histories of the
Scottish North Atlantic book series with Edinburgh University Press
and her second monograph, Empire and Emancipation: Scottish and
Irish Catholics at the Atlantic Fringe, 1780-1850, was published in
February 2022 by Toronto University Press. While at Trinity, she
will be working on the A Catholic Atlantic project which explores
the links between Scotland and Ireland, the Caribbean, and
northeastern British North America. Dr Ciaran O'Neill Ciaran
O'Neill began his term as Deputy Director of the Trinity Long Room
Hub in September 2020. Ciaran also serves as Trinity's Community
Liaison Officer. A nineteenth century historian, his first
monograph, Catholics of Consequence (2014) wone the JS Donnelly
Prize at the American Conference for Irish Studies. He is editor
(with Finola O'Kane Crimmins) of the forthcoming MUP collection,
Ireland, Slavey and the Caribbean (2021) and is currently
completing a second monograph entitled Life in a Palliative State.
His current research projects focus on the Eastern Caribbean.
Ciaran is a series editor for both Liverpool University Press’s
Reappraisals in Irish History and the SSNCI series. He has held
visiting research fellowships at the University of Sâo Paulo,
Boston College, University of Notre Dame, and at St Mary's
University Halifax. Learn more at:
https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/