Please join us on Zoom, Tuesday, April 13, at 7:00 when the Friends of the Library present what promises to be a fascinating program made possible by a grant from the NH Humanities Council.

Dr. Kelly will discuss the role of the Famine in shaping Irish-American ethnic identity.  Focusing on the long term impact of the episode between 1840’s and 1990’s, she explores the shadowed landscape of famine legacy and its status in Irish American culture today.  Dr. Kelly shows how interrogating famine memory enables the Irish on both sides of the Atlantic to deal with the material and emotional inheritance of this tragic experience.

Copies of The Graves are Waling by John Kelly are available in the library as a companion read to this presentation.