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The American Conference on Irish Studies held its annual meeting in Dublin in June; some four hundred scholars attended, including many historians of Ireland and the Irish diaspora. Plenary sessions featured well-attended talks by historians Kevin Kenny (Boston Coll.) and Eugenio Biagini (Cambridge Univ.). At the conference, the James S. Donnelly Prize for History and the Social Sciences books was awarded toWilliam Jenkins, Between Raid and Rebellion: The Irish in Buffalo and Toronto, 1867–1916 (McGill-Queen’s Univ. Press, 2013), and the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book went to Benjamin Bankhurst for Ulster Presbyterians and the Scots Irish Diaspora, 1750–1764 (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2013).
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