The Fighting Irish

The Montreal Gazette published an op-ed by Michael Kenneally, principal of the School of Irish Studies, about the renewed vitality of Montreal’s Irish community. Kenneally appeared on Global Montreal Morning News and Radio Canada International to disscus the new major in Canadian Irish Studies.

Also on the topic of Ireland and Irish communities, The Montreal Gazette publishes an op-ed by Jane McGaughey, a professor in the School of Canadian Irish Studies, discussing the “death of the Irish economic boom” and the resulting in a rise of Irish immigration to Canada, Britain and Australia. McGaughey spoke on similar topics in Le Devoir and Radio Première Chaîne.