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Patrick Mannion is research fellow in Irish History at the University of Edinburgh, and his first book, A land of dreams: ethnicity, nationalism, and the Irish in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Maine, 1880–1923, was published by McGill Queen’s University Press in 2018.