Events
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Fr. Robert Hayman, “Irish immigrants in Rhode Island prior to 1860, with a special look at the Newport area”.
Fr. Robert Hayman, Historian for the Diocese of Providence. Fr. Hayman’s talk focused on the "Irish immigrants in Rhode Island prior to 1860, with a special look at the Newport area". He referred to the memoirs of Bishop Fenwick of Boston who noted that in 1827 there were about 150 Irish men working at Ft.
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Paul O’Malley, Ph.D., “Ireland and the Spanish Civil War: A Foreign Policy Racy of Irish Soil”
The term "Racy" has been used in the past as a way of commending the organization or policy as exhibiting the excellence of the Irish race, according to Dr. O’Malley.
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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 National Endowment for the Humanities, and is co-editor of: Salem: Place, Myth and Memory (Northeastern U. Press, 2005). Professor Lusignan Schultz is also the author
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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 Maryland and has taught history in the Baltimore schools for over 30 years. His work has been exhibited in Paris, Manhattan and Ireland (County Kerry).