Participant Info
- First Name
- Sara
- Last Name
- Goek
- Country
- United States
- State
- IL Illinois
- sgoek@ala.org
- Affiliation
- American Library Association
- Website URL
- https://saragoek.com/
- Keywords
- Oral history, Irish diaspora, Irish migration, Irish America, Irish in Britain, American Immigration, Ethnic identity, Traditional & folk music
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Sara Goek is a social and cultural historian whose broad research interests cover a wide variety of subjects including oral history, digital humanities, migration, ethnicity and identity, Irish traditional music, and the histories of modern Ireland, Britain, and America. She holds a PhD in History / Digital Arts & Humanities from University College Cork, Ireland (2015), and a MA in Historical Research from UCC and a BA in Irish Studies and History from Boston College. Her PhD research focused on oral histories of traditional musicians who migrated from Ireland to Britain and America in the post-war era.
Sara is Program Manager at the Public Library Association and previously was Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow (2017-2019) and Program Manager at the Association of College & Research Libraries. More information is available from her website: https://saragoek.com/.
- Recent Publications
Articles, book reviews, and more:
- “‘An Ireland over There’? Dance Halls and Traditional Music in the Irish Diaspora, 1945-1970,” in Scattered Musics, ed. by David Henderson & Martha Chew Sánchez, University Press of Mississippi (2021)
- “Writing American Immigration History,” Choice, vol.56, no.10 (June 2019)
- “Digital Storytelling,” Keeping up with…, ACRL (Feb. 2018)
- “Oral History Research at University College Cork: Past, Present, and Future,” UCC (spring 2017)
- “‘Most Good Stories Are True, You Know’: History, Tradition, and Identity in a Family Story,” The Irish Review, vol.53, no.1 (Autumn 2016), pp.89-108
- “‘Looking for that Pot of Gold’: The Transnational Life of Kevin Henry,” Éire-Ireland, special issue Beyond the Nation: Transnational Ireland, vol.51, nos. 1 & 2 (Spring/Summer 2016), pp.92-117
- “Where Do Returning Irish Emigrants Move Home to?” Irish Times, Aug. 3, 2016
- Review of The Best Are Leaving: Emigration and Post-War Irish Culture by Clair Wills, Irish Historical Studies, vol.39, no.156 (Nov. 2015), pp.715-6
- “From Ireland to the US: A Brief Migration History,” Irish Times, Oct. 29, 2015
- “The Big Picture,” review essay on Transnational Perspectives on Modern Irish Historyedited by Niall Whelehan, Dublin Review of Books, no.67 (June 2015)
- “The Poetics of Cultural Nationalism: Thomas MacDonagh’s Literature in Ireland(1916),” Aigne, the online postgraduate journal of the College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences, UCC (2014)
- “‘I Never Would Return Again to Plough the Rocks of Bawn’: Irishmen in Post-war Britain,” in Locked Out: A Century of Irish Working-Class Life, ed. by David Convery, Irish Academic Press (2013)
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @SaraGoek
- Country Focus
- Ireland, United States
- Expertise by Geography
- British Isles, Ireland, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Libraries & Archives, Migration & Immigration, Public History
