Damian Shiels is a historian, archaeologist, and curator. His specialist focus lies in conflict archaeology and the history of the Irish in America.

David Gleeson is an author, professor, and researcher. He is a native of Ireland but spent 18 years studying and teaching in the United States. His research focused on Irish and English immigrants in nineteenth-century America as well as issues of race, ethnicity and class in the 19th Century United States.

Expect to learn about the Involvement of Irish immigrants in the American Civil War, the impact of the famine in Ireland and its connection to Irish immigration, voting rights and representation in slaveholding states before the Civil War, migration patterns and chain migration among Irish Americans, involvement of Irish regiments like the 42nd New York and their level of training, varied experiences of Irish soldiers during the war and their feelings towards each other, impacts of the American Civil War on children born to Irish immigrants and much more.

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