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“Sara Day’s astute and arresting study draws out patterns of family history, landownership, and the vagaries of provincial politics to illuminate the broad themes of Ireland’s violent and contested history.”
— R.F. Foster , Emeritus Professor of Irish History, University of Oxford
Sara Day was a historical researcher and curator with the Library of Congress, where she wrote the text for two major exhibitions, The American Journalist: Paradox of the Press (1990) and 1492: An Ongoing Voyage (1992). She also authored and/or edited numerous catalogs, resource guides, and books, including Many Nations (1996), and American Women (2001). As a freelance writer-researcher and independent scholar, she was chief researcher, managing editor, and collaborator for historian Robert Remini’s