Miriam Nyhan Grey

Director of Graduate Studies, MA in Irish and Irish-American Studies Associate Director, Glucksman Ireland House NYU, NYU's Global Coordinator for Irish Studies, 2017-2018

Education

P.h.D., Dept. of History & Civilization, European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy, 2008

M.Res., History & Civilization, European University Institute (EUI), 2005

M.Phil., University College Cork (UCC), Ireland, 2004

B.A., University College Cork (UCC), Ireland, 2000

Book Publications

  • Ireland’s Allies: America and the 1916 Easter Rising
    UCD Press, Dublin, Ireland, 2016.
    Editor
  • ‘Are You Still Below?’ The Ford Marina Plant, Cork 1917-1984
    The Collins Press, Cork, Ireland, 2007

Articles/Chapters:

  • "The Irish-American Mews and Oral History"
    Academy and Legacy: Reflections on 25 Years of Irish America and New York University's Glucksman Ireland House
  • ‘Associational Behavior in Context: Irish Immigrant Origins of Identity in the Diaspora’
    American Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 9 (2011)
  • County Associations in Irish New York, 1945-1965
    New York Irish History, Vol. 22, (2008)
  • La fuerza de trabajo en una planta Ford (Cork, Irlanda)
    Historia, Antropología y Fuentes Orales, Vol. 37, (2007)
  • Narration and Memory: The experiences of the workforce of a Ford Plant
    Irish Economic and Social History, Vol. XXXIII, (2006)

Areas of Research/Interest

Miriam Nyhan Grey has an interest in the intersections of migration, race and ethnicity and she focuses primarily on immigrant experiences in comparative frameworks. She has been on faculty at Glucksman Ireland House NYU since 2009, teaching an array of classes on Irish history and migration, oral history and comparative migration. Since 2008, she has been a collaborator on the oral history collection of the Archives of Irish America, at NYU’s Bobst Library, and she has been recording oral histories in Ireland, Britain and the United States since 2000. She hosts the weekly "This Irish American Life" radio hour on public radio on Saturdays from 9am to 10am on WNYE 91.5 FM and on www.nyuirish.net/radiohour. At present, she is preparing a book manuscript on drawing from oral histories with Irish immigrants in New York and London circa 1946 to 1961. 

Editorships

  • Co-editor
    American Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 14, (2017)
  • Co-Editor
    Co-editor, American Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 15, (Forthcoming)

In the News


Miriam Nyhan interviewed by Peter McDermott about county associations for the Irish Echo - January 6, 2011

Miriam Nyhan interviewed by Cahir O'Doherty about the county associations for the Irish Voice - November 18, 2010

Miriam Nyhan gives a talk, "Fraternally Yours: 160 Years of County Associations in New York" - November 4, 2010

Miriam Nyhan participates in "Who Do We Think We Are?" 2010, covered by IrishCentral.com - May 24, 2010

Miriam Nyhan gives a talk, "Irish Immigrants & County Associations in NYC, 1946-61" to the New York Irish History Roundtable - December 5, 2009