David T. Gleeson is Professor of American History at Northumbria University in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. He is author of The Irish in the South, 1815-1877 (2001) and The Green and the Gray: The Irish in the Confederate States of America (2013) and editor of The Irish in the Atlantic World (2010). He is currently principal investigator of the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK, project, Civil War Bluejackets: Race, Class and Ethnicity in the US Navy, 1861-1865, www.civilwarbluejackets.com
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