Professor Christine Kinealy is the Director of Ireland's Great Hunger Institute, Quinnipiac University, USA. Professor Kinealy has published extensively on nineteenth-century Irish history.
Kinealy draws themes from her rich trove of material with elegance and aplomb. She provides plenty of evidence that the impact of Ireland on Douglass was every bit as significant as the impact of Douglass on Ireland, if not more so. Douglass' mission remains a work in progress and Kinealy's fine book is an important step towards understanding why. -Brendan Kelly, Trinity College Dublin, The Irish Times