{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Tyler Anbinder on Ireland\u2019s Great Famine Refugees in New York","description":"My guest is Tyler Anbinder who, along with Cormac \u00d3 Gr\u00e1da and Simone A. Wegge, authored the article \u201cNetworks and Opportunities: A Digital History of Ireland\u2019s Great Famine Refugees in New York,\u201d which appears in the December 2019 issue of the AHR. Tyler Anbinder is Professor of History at George Washington University. He is author of such works as Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s; Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World\u2019s Most Notorious Slum; and City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York. Cormac \u00d3 Gr\u00e1da is Professor Emeritus at the University College Dublin\u2019s School of Economics. His books include Ireland: A New Economic History, 1780\u20131939 (Oxford University Press, 1994); Black \u201947 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory (Princeton University Press, 1999) and Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic History. Simone Wegge is Professor of Economics at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Wegge researches eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European emigration and the socioeconomics of nineteenth-century European villages. Her work has appeared in the European Review of Economic History, the Journal of Economic History, Social Science History, among other venues. ","author_name":"AHR Interview","author_url":"http:\/\/www.americanhistoricalreview.org","html":"