Posts Tagged ‘Immigration’
Lecture – Despair in the Heartland
$10 Jane Kennedy tell the story of the Connemaras of Graceville. Featuring original research, this substantive talk will present an account of how Connemara emigrants from Ireland’s western seaboard suffered through and survived one of Minnesota’s harshest winters in 1880. This event is part of the Irish Arts Week.
More >New Hibernia Review Panel & Discussion
Free. Discussion of the New Hibernia Review, its history and importance and significance as the quarterly journal created by the University of St. Thomas’s Center for Irish Studies since the 1990s led by David Gardiner, the new Director of the Center. A discussion of one or more recent articles follows. This journal is the cornerstone…
More >Norah Rendell and The Lost Forty
Inspired by Celtic traditions from Newfoundland to Minnesota, Norah Rendell and the Lost Forty unearth heirloom songs with Irish-American and Canadian roots and perform them with passion and nuance.
More >Class: Irish Community in St. Paul 1860-1914
How the Irish, both Catholic and Protestant, helped shape MN and their relationship with other immigrant groups.
More >Burren Girl: Sneak Preview Clips & Crowdfunder Launch
Burren Girl brings the past to life with a Minnesota woman’s 40-year quest to find the place and the people her Irish immigrant grandmother left behind.
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