Poster for the Glucksman Ireland House NYU Dinner Gala. Teal background with gold and white text. Heading reads: Glucksman Ireland House NYU Dinner Gala, Tuesday March 3, 2026, Mandarin Oriental, New York. Four honorees are pictured with their awards listed below each photo. Kate J. Barton, Global Chief Executive Officer at Dentons, receiving the Lewis L. Glucksman Award for Leadership. Roddy Doyle, critically acclaimed Irish writer and 1993 Booker Prize winner, receiving the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters. Patricia Harty, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Irish America, receiving the Pete Hamill Award for Journalistic Excellence. Michael J. Dowling, CEO Emeritus of Northwell Health, receiving the Outstanding Public Service Award and Lifetime Contribution to Public Health. Below the photos is an illustrated facade of the Glucksman Ireland House building. Glucksman Ireland House NYU and NYU logos appear at the bottom.

3) And on receiving the Outstanding Public Service award at the March 3rd Gala:

"To get an honor like this is an unbelievable privilege."

@kevinkenny.bsky.social #GlobalIrishNation #MichaelDowling #IrishStewPodcast @northwellhealth.bsky.social

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1) Michael Dowling:

"The Glucksman House has been basically the centre of Irish and Irish-American studies. It reminds us about heritage, reminds us about history. It reminds us about contribution — not just to Ireland, but to America."

#GlobalIrishNation #IrishAmerica @kevinkenny.bsky.social

View of the Empire State building in a snowbound NYC

The city is back ‼️

Michael Dowling on Leadership, Democracy, Optimism, and the Gluc… For it’s 150th episode, Irish Stew podcast welcomes back a clear-eyed optimist for troubled times, Michael J. Dowling. Glucksman Ireland House is honoring him with …

2) What makes Glucksman special is who it’s for.

“It’s not just Irish people. All nationalities are welcome — it builds the cross-fertilization of ideas about Irish culture and history to all peoples across the world.”

Episode Link: www.irishstewpodcast.com/michael-dowl...

@gihnyu.bsky.social

Michael Dowling on Leadership, Democracy, Optimism, and the Gluc… For it’s 150th episode, Irish Stew podcast welcomes back a clear-eyed optimist for troubled times, Michael J. Dowling. Glucksman Ireland House is honoring him with …

For it’s 150th episode, Irish Stew podcast welcomes back Michael J. Dowling. We are honoring him with the Outstanding Public Service and Lifetime Contribution to Public Health Award at the Gala on Tuesday, March 3, 2026.

Listen here: www.irishstewpodcast.com/michael-dowl...

What was immigration like before ICE? YouTube video by Vox

"How American immigration became law enforcement": a 15-minute @vox.com video explainer. "The rights that were won for Americans in the past are vulnerable. We have to fight to retain them." @iehs.bsky.social @unlawfulentries.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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"History has a fundamental role to play as essential balance against a society which has often rushed to see in everything what Richard Bourke has termed “the myths of continuity and composition.”"

A brilliant voicing of the value of universites, humanities and history. 2/2

Address of Taoiseach Micheál Martin Announcement of the first Childers Professor of Modern Irish History at Cambridge University Trinity College, Cambridge Friday 20th February 2026

1/2 Taoiseach Micheál Martin in Cambridge today: "the strongest democracies, and the most sustainable societies, are those which embrace the importance of diversity and complexity. Without the humanities this is impossible[...]"
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Image showing a fugitive slave being captured by four men under antebellum federal law

🗃️ State & local jurisdictions cannot defy federal law but neither can the federal govt order them to enforce every aspect of that law. For some origins of this ongoing tension in immigration federalism, rooted in the history of American slavery, here is a 🧵 on Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842) 🧵 1/10

Really looking forward to visiting @gihnyu.bsky.social on March 12 to talk about new book #IrishRomanticism @universitypress.cambridge.org

Cover of "Irish Romanticism: A Literary History" showing a detail from an abstract painting by Nano Reid called "Makeshift Gate at Wildgoose Lodge" (1973)

Congratulations to @claireconnolly.bsky.social on the publication of "Irish Romanticism: A Literary History" @universitypress.cambridge.org ❗We're looking forward to launching this book in @gihnyu.bsky.social on Thursday, March 12 at 6:00pm ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Cover of Hidetaka Hirota's "Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy" showing an Irish poor house sending its paupers to America

🗃️ The LPC (Likely to Become a Public Charge) provision in US immigration policy is, ominously, back in the news. For its historical origins, there is no better account than
@hidehirota.bsky.social 's book "Expelling the Poor" @academic.oup.com @iehs.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️⬇️ global.oup.com/academic/pro...

A conversation with @irpinaingiro.bsky.social and @kevinkenny.bsky.social based on "Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move" -- the latest volume in the Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series edited for @nyupress.bsky.social by @kevinkenny.bsky.social

"This map shows pre-colonized North America, depicting the approximate territories of Indigenous peoples prior to European colonization." https://www.thecollector.com/maps-resources/pre-columbian-north-america-map/

🗃️ Time to rewrite immigration history with Native history in mind. The US was founded on the conquest, dispossession, removal, exploitation, or genocide of Native people. Denial of that fact generated counter-myths: empty land, waste land, Manifest Destiny—and the slogan “nation of immigrants.” 🧵1/7

🗃️ Immigration history did not unfold in an already emptied space. Many immigrants took over Native land and all of them settled on territory—both urban and rural—once possessed by Native people. That fact in itself lays to rest the notion that the US was, simply “a nation of immigrants.” 🧵2/7

🗃️ “To imagine the United States as a nation of immigrants, devoid of an Indigenous population, is not only a form of erasure; it is also historically inaccurate,” writes Columbia University historian @mjwitgen.bsky.social, a citizen of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe. 🧵3/7

🗃️ “The United States,” @mjwitgen.bsky.social explains, “was founded as, & continues to be, a nation of settler immigrants locked into a struggle over the meaning of place and belonging with the Native nations of North America.” See Witgen, “A Nation of Settlers," WMQ 76 (July 2019), 3rd series. 🧵4/7

🗃️ NYU Law professor @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social, Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, notes: “Our founding myth is that we are a ‘nation of immigrants,’ a myth that erases the original, Indigenous inhabitants of North America and those communities brought to these lands in chains.” 🧵🧵5/7

🗃️ The myth of a “nation of immigrants,” @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social explains, “conceals the countless foreign nations, lands, and peoples over which the US asserted its power to govern & dispossess, without consent or negotiation & often by force.” Harvard Law Review 137 (Nov. 2023), 17–18. 🧵6/7

🗃️ An important theme in my “The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic” @academic.oup.com, the intersection of Native & immigration history is central to @unlawfulentries.bsky.social forthcoming big book “Migration & the Origins of American Citizenship” global.oup.com/academic/pro... 🧵7/7

🗃️ "Nation of immigrants” can counter xenophobia, yet it ignores the dispossession of indigenous peoples and slavery—or seeks to merge them into a single, anodyne multicultural mosaic. As a nation founded on colonialism & slavery, the US attracted & continues to attract millions of immigrants. 🧵10/10

🗃️ "Nation of immigrants” is vulnerable to attack from the right as well as the left. In 2018, the Trump admin deleted the phrase from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services mission statement, emphasizing its role in “protecting Americans, securing the homeland, and honoring our values.” 🧵9/10

🗃️ Leaders of the Democratic Party thereafter—Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris—regularly invoked the slogan “a nation of immigrants” to counteract xenophobia but also to sing the unique praises of the United States. 🧵8/10

🗃️ The fourth edition of "A Nation of Immigrants," published in 2018 with a preface by Congressman Joseph Kennedy III to mark to mark its 60th anniversary, presented the idea as a response to the nativist policies of the first Trump administration. 🧵7/10

🗃️ Kennedy’s "A Nation of Immigrants" told the story of successive waves of European immigrants who faced discrimination but overcame adversity and built new lives for themselves and their families in the United States. Chinese or Mexicans did not feature in this story. 🧵6/10

🗃️ The term “nation of immigrants” became popular in the 1950s & 60s, inspired by a short book attributed to Senator John F. Kennedy published by the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith as part of a movement to repeal the race-based national origins quota system of immigration restriction. 🧵5/10

🗃️ During the first half of the 19th century, foreign-born people in the US were generally called settlers, colonists, or emigrants. The word immigrant came into common usage in the postbellum era, usually as a pejorative description of Chinese or Italians and as a watchword for restriction. 🧵4/10

Today, foreign-born people make up more than 20 percent of the population of the Republic Ireland—until recently one of the world’s classic “nations of emigrants”—and more than 75 percent in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Kuwait. 🧵3/10

🗃️ Numerically & proportionately, the foreign-born US population reached its all-time peak in 2025 at 53 million, or 15.8 percent of the population. The gross figure is the highest in the world, but the percentage is not. Yet the US is almost alone in calling itself “a nation of immigrants.” 🧵2/10