Thank you Dr. Maddalena Marinari & Erika Lee for devising, editing, & contributing to this special issue of the JAH on the US immigration restriction laws w/ Carl Lindskoog Yael Schacher Mireya Loza Adam Goodman Romeo Guzmán Ashley Johnson Bavery Seema Sohi Alexandra Minna Stern

Excited to launch my new book BRIAN FRIEL: BEGINNINGS with Four Courts Press -- Please join us on 24 June at Little Acorns Bookstore in Derry or on 26 June at Boston College Ireland to get your copy! fourcourtspress.ie/books/2024/bri…

My loving brother-in-law Alonzo is starting #dialysis & urgently needs a #KidneyTransplant . His husband (my bro) & I have already been ruled out for #DonorExchange to earn him a #TransplantVoucher . Please reply/RT to help save an amazing middle-school #Humanities teacher’s life!

Made it into Paperback Non-Fryer. Not bad for a big old history book, and despite some distribution problems I’m assured will be sorted this week. Thanks for your support and patience

In other news, I’ve learned that my book is out in paperback today with Cambridge University Press - History at the more affordable price of £25.99.

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Congratulations D Waldstreicher on winning the Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians!

Fintan O'Toole: Ireland is still not sure how to confront its most formative trauma irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…

'This is a grim story of what can happen when a nation fails to take ownership of a central part of its own history: the threat of renewed oblivion always awaits.'
Fintan O'Toole The Irish Times
re: how Ireland's Great Hunger Museum Quinnipiac University 'disappeared into a limbo of oblivion'

'Making Sense of the Molly Maguires' ... 25 years later. Thank you The Hagley Center
for hosting this podcast episode on immigration and class conflict in Gilded Age Pennsylvania
Ben Spohn Immigration and Ethnic History Society Migration Scholar Collaborative LAWCHA OUP History 🔽🔽🔽
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Looking forward to reading the recently published book by Kristie Flannery (Dr Kristie Flannery). Congratulations, Kristie!
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Some shamrock action by Dr. Sarah Waidler, aided by Brennan and Hannah, as we performed a scene from a 1932 American children's play about St. Patrick's Day at Thursday's launch of The Green Space! It was a great night. Glucksman Ireland House NYU was filled with love; thanks everyone!

Kudos to Marion R. Casey on this evening’s launch of The Green Space at Glucksman Ireland House NYU this is a wonderful achievement & much credit due to Kevin Kenny for his role in getting this book, & the entire GIH diaspora history series, into the world. This is the 9th book already!

Henderson, Nevada, 7:02pm

Thanks to ⁦The Sunday Times Ireland⁩ for this sneak preview of Land is All That Matters. Out on Thursday.

🧵7/7: Since 1889, US immigration policy has been defined as matter of national security. The origins of this doctrine lie in the racial logic of Chinese exclusion.

🧵6/7. In Trump v Hawaii (2018), the Court upheld the so-called Muslim Travel Ban by citing the decision in the Chinese Exclusion Case (1889) that the political branches of the national government have a plenary power over immigration largely immune from judicial review.

🧵5/7. In Chae Chan Ping v. US ('Chinese Exclusion Case' (1889)) SCOTUS ruled that power over immigration, as a matter of national security, was inherent in national sovereignty & belonged the “political branches” of the federal government, w/ minimal interference by the courts.

🧵4/7. The Chinese Exclusion Act allowed Chinese laborers already resident in the US to leave & return if they obtained certificates before departing. The Scott Act (1888) unilaterally discontinued this practice, leading to an unsuccessful challenge by Chae Chan Ping in (1889).

🧵3/7. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 discriminated by class as well as race, banning skilled and unskilled “laborers” but exempting merchants, teachers, students, diplomats, and other travelers verified by the Chinese government.