Angela Byrne explores the rich and varied connections between Ireland and Russia in the pre-revolutionary period, focusing on the Irish women who went in search of adventure or employment, for love or for political causes.

Dr Angela Byrne is a historian of women, migration, and travel and exploration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and has published widely on these topics.

She is an editor with the Dictionary of Irish Biography (Royal Irish Academy) and has previously held research and lecturing positions at the University of Greenwich, University of Toronto, NUI Maynooth and EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum.

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