Introduction: Gathering Tensions;Johanne Devlin Trew and Michael Pierse.-Part I: Policy Contexts and Political Change.- 1: Diaspora engagement in Ireland, North and South, in the shadow of Brexit; Johanne Devlin Trew.- 2: The Irish governments diaspora strategy: Towards a care agenda; Mark Boyle and Adrian Kavanagh.- 3: The need for a national diaspora centre in Ireland; Brian Lambkin.- 4: Marriage equality North and South: The journey after The Gathering; Danielle Mackle.- Part II: Echoes from History and Irish Imaginaries.- 5: Bringing it all back home: the fluctuating reputation of James Orr (1770-1816), Ulster-Scots Poet and Irish Patriot; Carol Baraniuk.- 6: Gathering Antipathy: Irish Immigrants and Race in Americas Age of Emancipation; Brian Kelly.- Part III: Hidden Diasporas.- 7: Hidden diasporas:Second and third generation Irish in England and Scotland; Bronwen Walter.- 8: Placeless patriots: The misplaced loyalty of The Middle Nation; Ultan Cowley.- 9: Raffertys Return: Diaspora and dislocation in Edna O Briens Shovel Kings; Tony Murray.- 10: Coeval but out of kilter: diaspora, modernity and authenticity in Irish emigrant worker writing; Michael Pierse.- Epilogue;Johanne Devlin Trew and Michael Pierse.-