About this Event
We are delighted to welcome the following speakers:
Prof. Darragh Gannon
Darragh Gannon is Associate Director of Global Irish Studies at Georgetown University and the Ireland Funds Fellow at the Princess Grace Library, Monaco. He has published widely on Irish and American History. His books include Proclaiming a Republic: Ireland, 1916 and the National Collection (Irish Academic Press, 2016) and Ireland 1922: independence, partition, civil war, edited with Fearghal McGarry (Royal Irish Academy, 2021). His most recent book - Conflict, Diaspora, and Empire: Irish nationalism in Britain, 1912-1922 (Cambridge University Press, 2023) – was awarded the National University of Ireland Irish Historical Research Prize (Special Recognition Prize). A former Fulbright scholar, Prof. Gannon currently serves as Lead Historian on the IrishAmerica250 commemorative committee.
Prof. Tara McCarthy
Tara McCarthy is a Professor of History at Central Michigan University, where she specializes in American women’s history. Her book, Respectability and Reform: Irish American Women’s Activism, 1880 to 1920 was published by Syracuse University Press in 2018. She also wrote a chapter on women’s activism in the early 20th century for the Routledge History of Irish America (edited by Cian McMahon and Kathleen Costello-Sullivan) and is currently working on another chapter on land reform and social reform for a Routledge volume entitled the Handbook of Irish Women’s History, which will be edited by Diane Urquhart and Lindsey Earner-Byrne.
Dr. Elizabeth Stack
Elizabeth is the Education Director of Celtic Junction Arts Center in Minneapolis-St. Paul. A public historian and speaker, she has been the executive director of the American Irish Historical Society in New York, the Executive Director of the Irish American Heritage Museum in Albany, NY, and the Assistant Director of the Institute of Irish Studies at Fordham University. Born in Listowel, Co. Kerry, she completed her PhD at Fordham, writing about Irish and German immigrants in New York at the turn of the twentieth century as they grappled with the immigration restriction movements of that time.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Consulate General of Ireland, Atlanta, United States
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