About Caroline Heafey
Caroline B. Heafey studied English and French Literature at Fordham University before pursuing her MA Glucksman Ireland House NYU. She specialized in Irish Literature, focusing on the prison writings of Dorothy Macardle in her MA thesis. She now works as the Administrative Aide in the Department of Irish and Irish-American Studies and continues to write about Irish women writers. Her research interests include transnationalism, modernism, trauma, and women’s prison narratives from periods of social conflict.
Announcements
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American Journal of Irish studies Volume 14 Now Available
November 16, 2017
Table of Contents Mary Burke | "The ghost of Roger Casement/Is beating on the (closet)… -
From the Mick Moloney Collection of AIA: Jokebooks, 1883-1928
November 16, 2017
Twenty-one jokebooks, or comedic material, make up Series D. In addition to Irish-American subject matter,… -
NYU Summer in Dublin 2017: A Review
November 16, 2017
NYU student, McKenna McFadden, recently discovered a 12th-century kite brooch during an excursion with NYU's…
Courses
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Resurrecting the Ethnic Village
Description
One of the hallmarks of Irish America is ethnic succession which, by its very nature, renders the past invisible, especially in cities like New York.
This course and companion website focuses on the nineteenth century when immigration from Ireland dramatically altered North America politically, socially and culturally. We look a various Irish neighborhoods using traditional and modern methods of historical research, collecting textual, numeric, and visual data.
Researchers
Events
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Event Archive: America and the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland
04/21/2016 – 04/22/2016
In the spring of 2016 Glucksman Ireland House NYU organized a series of events dedicated…