Michael Doorley

Michael Doorley has a research interest in the history of the Irish diaspora in America with an emphasis on the interactions between Irish America and Ireland during the first half of the twentieth century. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, his work has focused on how American social and political conditions determined the experience of the Irish ethnic group in the United States and influenced their attitudes towards Ireland. In particular, Doorley's work has highlighted how Irish-American nationalism had different concerns from that of Irish nationalism thus contributing to the difficulties which arose between Irish-American leader Justice Daniel Cohalan and Irish leader Éamon de Valera, during the latter's mission to the United States in 1919-1920.