Gerard Moran lectured in the History Department at NUI Galway and Maynooth University. He has published extensively on 19th-century Ireland, including Sending Out Ireland’s Poor: Assisted Emigration to North America in the Nineteenth Century, Fleeing from Famine in Connemara: James Hack Tuke and his Assisted Emigration Scheme in the 1880s and joint editor of Mayo: History and Society and the Famine Heroes of Ireland’s Great Hunger series with Christine Kinealy.