Alan Allport | Source | Professor of History at Syracuse University
Alan Allport
Alan is a British historian whose work looks at the relationship between war and society during the period of the two world wars. He was born in Whiston, Merseyside and moved to the United States in 1994. He received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania in 2007 and currently teaches at Syracuse University.
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I think it’s been more about what the monarchy and the crown has represented. It clearly represents the British authority and the British state. For lots of Irish people, of course, there are some tragic memories of that, going back to, perhaps, the time of their great-grandparents.
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Loss of Queen Elizabeth felt among Syracuse's Irish community
The Irish-American community in Syracuse remembers Queen Elizabeth II and Ireland's complicated history with the United Kingdom.
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Syracuse University (https://www.syracuse.edu/)
Professor of History