Irish Studies’ Seminar Series, Semester 2, 2018-19.

Fenianos, Freedmen and ‘French half-breeds’: A Borderlands Approach to American Fenianism, 1865-70”

Patrick Mahony, PhD Scholar Drew University, Irish Studies Visiting Scholar, NUI Galway 2018-19 

Seminar Room Centre for Irish Studies

4pm, Thursday 21 February 2019

Image 1: The Battle of Ridgeway – Charge of General O’Neill’s Fenians upon the Canadian troops, causing their rout.

The Sage, Sons & Co. Lithographer (1869) – Library and Archives Canada

A chairde,

You are invited to attend our third seminar of the Irish Studies’ Seminar Series, Semester 2, 2018-19.

We are delighted to welcome back one of our former MA in Irish Studies’ students this semester. Fáilte ar ais chugainn a Phádraig! Mr Patrick Mahony (Drew University) will deliver his paper, ‘Fenianos, Freedmen and ‘French half-breeds’: A Borderlands Approach to American Fenianism, 1865-70’, based on his ongoing doctoral research on Irish-American history. For further details, please see below.

Patrick is a Caspersen Doctoral Fellow at Drew University. His research focuses primarily on the interactions between Irish-American radicals, indigenous peoples, and other ethno-political groups in the U.S. Borderlands and the Caribbean during the mid-nineteenth century. His book, From A Land Beyond the Wave: Connecticut’s Irish Rebels, 1798-1916 (2017), won the Connecticut League of History Organizations’ Publication Prize (2018). 

The seminar will take place at 4pm, Thursday 21 February, at the Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, Distillery Road.

Beidh fáilte roimh chách!