Episode 5. Hidetaka Hirota - Irish migrants in mid-19th century Boston and New York.

Joe Mulhall is the Director of research at HOPE not hate, the UK's largest anti-fascism organisation. An expert on far-right extremism he is the interviewee in episode 16 of 'A history of xenophobia - from the goldmines to the rise of the far right today'.

Matt Golder is Professor of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University and the interviewee in the episode 15 of 'A history of xenophobia - from the goldmines to the rise of the far right today'.

Associate Professor Eoin O'Malley (DCU) is the interviewee in the 13th episode of 'A history of xenophobia - from the goldmines to the rise of the far right today'.

Professor David Art (Tufts) is the interviewee in the 12th episode of 'A history of xenophobia - from the goldmines to the rise of the far right today'.

Professor Elizabeth Buettner (Amsterdam) is the interviewee in the 11th episode of 'A history of xenophobia - from the goldmines to the rise of the far right today'.

Professor William Brustein (West Virginia) is the interviewee in the 10th episode of 'A history of xenophobia - from the goldmines to the rise of the far right today'.

Dr Maddalena Marinari (Gustavus Adolphus College) is the interviewee in the ninth episode of 'A history of xenophobia - from the goldmines to the rise of the far right today'.

Dr Kathryn Pillay (University of KwaZulu-Natal) is the interviewee in the eight episode of 'A history of xenophobia - from the goldmines to the rise of the far right today'.

Professor Mae Ngai (Columbia University) is the interviewee in the seventh episode of 'A history of xenophobia - from the goldmines to the rise of the far right today'.

Marilyn Lake (Professorial Fellow in History at the University of Melbourne) is the interviewee in the sixth episode of 'A history of xenophobia - from the goldmines to the rise of the far right today'.