Seminar and Book Launch

Seminar and Book Launch

Prof. Kerby A. Miller  (University of Missouri)

Best to Forget?  Conflict, Memory, and Memoir-Writing by Irish Emigrants to the United States, c1870-c1950                                                                                         

Kerby A. Miller is Curators’ Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Missouri. His book Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America (1985) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His other books include Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan (2003), and Ireland and Irish America: Culture, Class, and Transatlantic Migration (2008), and Catholics and Protestants in Eighteenth-Century Ireland: The Irish Religious Censuses of the 1760s (forthcoming).

Followed by the launch of Breandán Mac Suibhne’s

The End of Anger: The Post-Famine Adjustment in Rural Ireland (Oxford University Press, 2017).