Shane Lynn is Assistant Professor (CLA) at the Department of History. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a Gold Medal in History, earned his MA and PhD at the University of Toronto, and held a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at New York University. He specialises in global and transnational histories of the Irish diaspora and the British and American empires. His research interests broadly include empire, race, diaspora, nationalism, migrant politics and revolutionary movements. His first book, Ireland's Opportunity: Global Irish Nationalism and the South African War (New York: NYU Press, 2025) shows how empire shaped Irish nationalism across Ireland, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. He has written scholarly articles on the transnational dimensions of Irish diaspora politics and settler societies from the 1820s to the 1920s.
