History Publications

• “Online Archives: Giving Oral History Research Projects an Afterlife,” with Liz Kiely & Máire Leane, SAGE Research Methods: Doing Research Online (Mar. 2022)
• “On the Road with the WPA,” Contingent Magazine (Oct. 2021)
• “‘An Ireland over There’? Dance Halls and Traditional Music in the Irish Diaspora, 1945-1970,” in Scattered Musics, ed. by David Henderson & Martha Chew Sánchez, University Press of Mississippi (2021)
• “Writing American Immigration History,” Choice, vol.56, no.10 (June 2019)
• “Digital Storytelling,” Keeping up with…, ACRL (Feb. 2018)
• “Oral History Research at University College Cork: Past, Present, and Future,” UCC (spring 2017)
  • Related: Irish Women at Work Oral History Project at the Digital Repository of Ireland
• “‘Most Good Stories Are True, You Know’: History, Tradition, and Identity in a Family Story,” The Irish Review, vol.53, no.1 (Autumn 2016), pp.89-108
• “‘Looking for that Pot of Gold’: The Transnational Life of Kevin Henry,” Éire-Ireland, special issue Beyond the Nation: Transnational Ireland, vol.51, nos. 1 & 2 (Spring/Summer 2016), pp.92-117
• “Where Do Returning Irish Emigrants Move Home to?” Irish Times, Aug. 3, 2016
• Review of The Best Are Leaving: Emigration and Post-War Irish Culture by Clair Wills, Irish Historical Studies, vol.39, no.156 (Nov. 2015), pp.715-6
• “From Ireland to the US: A Brief Migration History,” Irish Times, Oct. 29, 2015
• “The Big Picture,” review essay on Transnational Perspectives on Modern Irish History edited by Niall Whelehan, Dublin Review of Books, no.67 (June 2015)
• “The Poetics of Cultural Nationalism: Thomas MacDonagh’s Literature in Ireland (1916),” Aigne, the online postgraduate journal of the College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences, UCC (2014)
• “‘I Never Would Return Again to Plough the Rocks of Bawn’: Irishmen in Post-war Britain,” in Locked Out: A Century of Irish Working-Class Life, ed. by David Convery, Irish Academic Press (2013)
• “Oral History in the Digital Age: Issues and Possibilities,” in Digital Arts & Humanities: Scholarly Reflections (2012)
• “‘This is the Chance and the Time for a Raging War’: Irish Vernacular Poetry and the American Revolution,” Elements, the Boston College undergraduate research journal (2008)

Library-Related Publications

• “Public Library Services for Strong Communities Report: Results from the 2022 PLA Annual Survey,” Public Library Association (June 2023)
• “Public Library Staff Support Diverse Communities,” National League of Cities (Oct. 2022)
• “Public Library Staff and Diversity Report: Results from the 2021 PLA Annual Survey,” Public Library Association (Aug. 2022)
• The Impact of COVID-19 on Library Staff, series in Public Libraries Online (April 2021): part 1, “Supporting Health and Well-Being“; part 2, “The Future of Remote Work Is Flexibility“; part 3, “Library Staff In and Beyond the Workplace“
• “Public Libraries Respond to COVID-19,” Public Libraries, vol.60, no.1 (Jan/Feb 2021)
  • Related: interactive data visualization
• “Outcome Measurement in Libraries: The Project Outcome Model,” Assessment in Practice, National Institute of Learning Outcome Assessment (June 2020)
• Project Outcome for Academic Libraries: First Annual Report (June 2020)
• College & Research Libraries (vol.81, no.3), special issue on Academic Library Impact, edited by Sara Goek & Jill Becker (April 2020)
• “Outcome Measurement and Libraries: Adapting the Project Outcome Model,” Proceedings of the 2018 Library Assessment Conference (2019)
• Shaping the Campus Conversation on Student Learning and Experience: Activating the Results of Assessment in Action, edited by Karen Brown, Deb Gilchrist, Sara Goek, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Kara Malenfant, Chase Ollis, and Allison Payne (ACRL, 2018)
• Blog posts on ACRL Insider

Select Presentations

• “Technology Infrastructure and Digital Equity in U.S. Public Libraries,” International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries, Nov. 2021
• “‘Your Home Is in Your Shoes’: Experiences of Irish Return Migration,” European Social Science History Conference, Leiden, Netherlands, March 2021
• “Valuing the Humanities: Challenging Narratives of Career Diversity for Historians” (panelist), American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York City, Jan. 2020
• “Outcome Measurement and Libraries: Adapting the Project Outcome Model,” Library Assessment Conference, Houston, Dec. 2018
• “Irish Women Migrants in the Post-World War II Era”, Irish Books, Arts, and Music Festival, Chicago, Oct. 2018
• “Oral History: An Introductory Workshop”, Milwaukee Irish Fest, Aug. 2018
• “Outcome Measurement and Libraries: Adapting the Project Outcome Model”, Association for the Assessment of Learning in Higher Education, June 6, 2018
• “Irish Music and Migration” and “Collecting Oral History and Family History”, Milwaukee Irish Fest, Aug. 2017
• “Nurses to Nannies: Irish Women’s Working Lives in the United States after the Second World War,” Oral History Network of Ireland conference, Galway, June 24, 2017
• Panelist at Migration and the Humanities: Critical Challenges, Irish Humanities Alliance, NUI Galway, June 16-17, 2017 (proceedings)
• “Irish Oral Heritage in the Digital Age: Opportunities and Challenges,” American Conference for Irish Studies, University of Missouri Kansas City, March 30, 2017
• “Ireland’s Prodigal Sons and Daughters: Return Migration, 1950-2011,” Transnational Ireland Colloquium, University of Edinburgh, May 27, 2016
• “‘A Good Story’: Revealing History through Tradition in a Personal Narrative,” by invitation to the Centre for Contemporary Irish History Seminar Series, Trinity College Dublin, Feb. 17, 2016 (podcast)
• “Describing Poverty in Mid-Twentieth Century Rural Ireland: Personal Narratives and Collective Memory,” Noel Browne Winter School, NUI Galway, Nov.14-15, 2015
• “Finding Meaning in Music through Oral History,” Oral History Network of Ireland conference, Trinity College Dublin, Sept. 12, 2015
• “Oral History and Research Ethics at Third-Level Institutions: A Student’s Perspective,” by invitation to the Oral History Network of Ireland’s event, Research Ethics Committees and Oral History Research, Trinity College Dublin, June 12, 2015
• “The Irish in Post-War Britain: Local Experiences and Comparative Histories,” Four Nations Approaches to Modern ‘British’ History conference, King’s College London, Feb. 20, 2015
• “‘Fields Are Green Far Away’: Irish Migration, Culture, and Transnationalism in the Post-war Era,” by invitation to the Modern Irish History Seminar series, Beyond the Island: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives, Feb. 4, 2015
• “Diasporic Dialogues? Sharing Oral Histories Online with a Global Irish Community,” International Oral History Association conference, Barcelona, July 9-12, 2014
• “Transnational Lives: Oral Histories of Irish Migration after the Second World War,” American Conference for Irish Studies, University College Dublin, June 11-14, 2014
• “Irish Encounters with British Modernity: Identities in Process, 1945-1970,” New Voices in Irish Studies, NUI Galway, June 5-7, 2014
• “‘The whole world is out there’: Remembering Emigration in Oral Histories,” Economic and Social History Society of Ireland Conference, NUI Galway, Nov. 22, 2013
• “(Re)Evaluating Emigration: Making Sense of the Decision to Leave Ireland in Oral Histories, 1945-1970,” American Conference for Irish Studies, Chicago, April 10-13, 2013
• “Migration, Music & Memories: Interdisciplinarity in Oral Histories of Irish Emigrant Musicians,” Oral History Network of Ireland Conference, Ennis, Co. Clare, September 29, 2012
• “‘Another Ireland’: Comparative Perspectives on the Development of Irish Immigrant Community and Identity in London, New York City, and Boston, 1945-1970,” History Postgraduate Forum, National University of Ireland Galway, April 16, 2012
• “‘Our Own Little Ireland’: A Historical Perspective on Traditional Music and the Development of Irish Immigrant Community and Identity, 1945-1970,” American Conference for Irish Studies, New Orleans, March 14-17, 2012
• “Traditional Music and Oral Histories of Irish Emigration to the United States and Britain, 1945-1970,” UCC School of History Research Seminar, March 14, 2011