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The Irish Famine Migrant Stories in Ontario virtual exhibit. This exhibit tells the stories of the desperate and often disease stricken emigrants who fled across the Atlantic from Ireland\\u2019s Great Hunger in 1847 as well as those of their Canadian caregivers in Ontario. It is hosted by Canada Ireland Foundation (formerly Ireland Park Foundation) in Toronto. This exhibit tells the story of the Irish Famine migrants who crossed the Atlantic fleeing the Great Irish Hunger of 1847.https://irishfaminestories.caJason King (Postdoctoral Researcher) has previously lectured at the University of Limerick, Concordia University, and NUI Maynooth.\\xa0 His research specializes in intercultural performance at the intersection of migration, memory, and literary studies in the past and present. His publications include \\u201cIrish Multiculturalism in Crisis: Integration, Migration, and Recession in Contemporary Ireland\\u201d (forthcoming special issue of Irish Studies Review, co-edited with Pilar Villar-Argaiz,), \\u201cIrish Global Migration and Memory\\u201d (special issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents, co-edited by Margu\\xe9rite Corporaal),\\xa0 \\u201cMemoir, Memory, and Migration in Irish Culture\\u201d (special issue of Irish Review, co-edited with Tina O\\u2019Toole), and Where is Home: An Educational Resource on Refugees in International and Irish Perspective (co-authored with Piaras Mac \\xc9inr\\xed).\\xa0 His work on interculturalism, migration, and Irish theatre and performance has appeared in Irish Review, \\xc9ire-Ireland, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies among other journals and multiple edited collections. He is also the curator of the digital Irish Famine Archive:http://faminearchive.nuigalway.ie/For his Master\\u2019s Degree, William Peat researched the Irish Diaspora in the San Francisco Bay Area. This involved broadly grounding myself in theories of group identity, innovation clusters and networking in a neoliberal environment. Since graduation he has worked freelance for worldirish.com, conducting research on international Irish networks as well as online social media activity. Upon completion of that he concentrated on setting up a non-for-profit called NGen Ireland.