DISSEMINATION
2022
A X(formerly Twitter) handle @CubaEireDigital set up.
3 conference papers: IASIL UL, Limerick (July 2022); Oficina del Historiador de La Habana, Cuba (Sept 22)
1 Keynote: the Symposium of Irish Studies in Latin America, USAL, Buenos Aires
2023
3 conference papers: Casa de Las Americas, Havana (Feb 23); SILAS, University of Galway (June 23); Caribbean Digital, Yale University (Dec 23)
Guest speaker Dept of Anthropology & Sociology seminar, Simon Fraser University (May 23)
D5.5 Convened the IX Society for Irish Latin American Studies (SILAS) conference at the Moore Institute, University of Galway 21-23 June 2023. DH projects were highlighted at a round table seminar on DH and migration studies.
Invited speaker at IRELAND – IBERIA & IBERO-AMERICA. HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES MEETING, A Scientific Symposium to mark Spain ́s Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Embassy of Spain, Cervantes Institute, Dublin 23 Oct 2023.
Publications. 1 chapter in conference proceedings publication ‘Genealogías irlandesas de la esclavitud en Cienfuegos’, in V Coloquio Presencias europeas en Cuba. Memorias, (Ediciones Boloña, 2023) pp. 36-47.
Cuba-Ireland Digital Archive is completed with 427 documents with 6000+ surrogate digital images.
2024
5 conference papers: dri.DPASSH at the Hunt Museum, Limerick (May 24); UK-Ireland DH conference, UCC (June 24); GCIS, University of Galway (June 24); Cuba Research Forum, University of Nottingham & University of Havana (Sept 24); Bonn Center for Dependencies and Slavery Studies (BCDSS) (Sept 24); Symposium on the Racial Dimensions of the 2004 Irish Citizenship Referendum (Oct 24)
Invited speaker at workshop on Irish and British Migrants in Latin America and the Caribbean, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (Sept 24)
Publication Peer review journal ‘Irish Immigrants in Colonial Port Cities of Cuba: Havana, Santiago, and Cienfuegos’ Margaret Brehony; Giselle González García in Journal of American Ethnic History (2024) 44 (1): 111–134.
https://doi.org/10.5406/19364695.44.1.06(se abrirá en una nueva ventana). LinkedIn
Open Access Cuba-Ireland Digital Archive published by University of Galway Hardiman Library Digital Collections
Book proposal ready to go to publishers: The Irish in Cuba (1720-1900)
2 transdisciplinary collaborations: Irish musicians performed a commemoration of Irish railroad workers who died in a cholera epidemic and lie in unmarked graves in Havana. An account of this event appears in the 2024 biography by well-known musician/singer John Faulkner.
A musical interpretation of a manuscript source from this archive was selected by Historian Niall Whelehan as part of BYOHammer
https://byohammer.com/blogger-gb-about/(se abrirá en una nueva ventana) a project that combines historical sources, music and digital technologies.