Lectures
Nancy Lusignan Schultz, Ph.D., “McGowan’s Tavern, Paddy Funerals, and Rossiter’s Dog: Irish Factors in the 1834 Attack on the Charlestown, Mass. Convent”
Nancy Lusignan Schultz is professor and coordinator of Graduate Programs in English and America Studies at Salem State College, Salem, Mass. She has completed fellowships at Harvard University and the
Denny Lynch, photographer, “Returning to Kerry: Photographic sojourn in and around Kerry.”
A frequent visitor to Ireland, Denny Lynch has recorded his travels with wonderful and engaging photographs. He received his BS in History and MS in Education from Towson University in
Alen MacWeeney, Photographer, Author, “Irish Travelers, Tinkers No More” (New England College Press, 2007)
Alen MacWeeney was born in Dublin in 1939 and came to the U.S. at age 21 to become assistant to the renowned photographer Richard Avedon. He soon established himself as
Scott Molloy, Ph.D., “Irish Titan, Irish Toilers: Joseph Banigan and Nineteenth-Century New England Labor” (University Press of New England, July 2008)
In his book Molloy explores the life of Joseph Banigan (1839-1898), one of America's most successful 19th Century industrialists, who became New England’s first Catholic millionaire. Banigan was an Irish
. Charles Artaud Byrne, MS, Lt.-Col. U.S. AF (retired), “Ranelagh: The Irish Warlord” (Tate Publishing Company, 2008)
Byrne brings one of Ireland’s ancient and respected families to vivid life. His epic of the O’Byrne family begins in 16th Century County Wicklow, as they struggle to counter English
William J. Matthews, Ph.D., “The Irish Famine (An Gorta Mor) 1845-1849”
The great Irish famine was a horrific period in Irish history of incredible calamity, suffering, and death. The proximal cause of this disaster was the Irish dependence on the potato