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Enda Delaney is a professor at the University of Edinburgh, where he holds a Personal Chair in Modern History. He has published extensively on the history of modern Ireland and the global Irish diaspora, including The Great Irish Famine: a history in four lives (Gill and Macmillan, 2014) and The Irish in post-war Britain (Oxford University Press, 2007).