Christine Kinealy Book Launch

Professor Christine Kinealy is the founding Director of Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, Christine has researched extensively on Ireland’s Great Hunger and the Irish Abolition movement.  Her award-winning publications include Charity and the Great Hunger. The Kindness of Strangers (2013), Frederick Douglass and Ireland. In his own words (2018), and more recently, three volumes of Black Abolitionists in Ireland (2020, 2023 and 2026).  In 2017, she received an Emmy for her role as Historical Adviser to the documentary Ireland’s Great Hunger and the Irish Diaspora and, in 2022, she was named Irish American of the Year by the Irish Echo (New York). Outside her professional life, she enjoys hanging out with her dog, CúChulainn.