Kevin Donleavy

Kevin Donleavy (Col ’61) has published his second book, The Irish in Early Virginia, with Pocahontas Press. A past resident fellow of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Mr. Donleavy is a retired Latin teacher and political organizer. He is active in Clann Mhór, a research group documenting the Irish and slave workers who built the railway through the Blue Ridge Mountains in the mid-1800s. His first book, Strings of Life: Conversations with Old-Time Musicians From Virginia and North Carolina (2004), focused on traditional music from Virginia, North Carolina and Ireland.