Margaret Brehony

Margaret Brehony is president of the Society for Irish Latin American Studies www.irlandeses.org, and has taught in Latin American Studies and Irish Studies at NUIG. Her research interests lie in migration, refugee rights and digital humanities. She has published on Irish migration to Cuba in the nineteenth century and is the curator of an exhibition entitled ‘The Irish in Latin America’, currently touring in Latin America and Ireland. She has lived and worked in Central America and has visited Cuba every year since 1994.