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Fund for Irish Studies: Lecture on “Race, Politics, and Irish-America: A Gothic History” by Mary Burke

Event Overview

Dates

April 21, 2023

Hours

4:30 PM

Location

James Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau St.

Admission

Free & open to public

Professor of English at the University of Connecticut Mary Burke presents a talk that draws from her new book, Race, Politics, and Irish-America: A Gothic History (Oxford University Press, March 2023). Burke examines the cultural legacies of the forcibly transported Irish, the Scots-Irish, and post-Famine Catholic immigrants through the words and lives of Black and white writers and public figures in the Americas, from Andrew Jackson to Grace Kelly and the Caribbean-Irish Rihanna. Introduced by Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’52 Professor in Irish Letters Fintan O’Toole.

Part of the spring 2023 Fund for Irish Studies lecture series.

Tickets & Details

The lecture is free and open to the public. No advance tickets or registration required.

Directions

Get directions and find venue information for the James Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau Street.

Accessibility

symbol for wheelchair accessibilityThe James Stewart Film Theater is wheelchair accessible. Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information at our various locations. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week in advance of the event date.

About Mary Burke

mary burke sits on a staircase with chin in her right hand, staring off to the side.

Photo courtesy Mary Burke

Mary M. Burke, Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, is the author of Race, Politics, and Irish-America: A Gothic History (Oxford University Press, 2023). Burke’s first book with Oxford University Press was a cultural history of the indigenous Irish Traveller minority. Her collaboration with Tramp Press on a new edition of The Horse of Selene, Traveller novelist Juanita Casey’s lost classic, will launch in the U.S. in late April. Burke’s work has been featured in James Joyce Quarterly, NPR, the Irish Times, RTÉ, and Faber. She has served on Fulbright’s Screening Committee for Ireland and is a former NEH Irish Studies Fellow at the University of Notre Dame. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin and Queen’s University Belfast, she was awarded a fall 2022 Long Room Hub Fellowship at Trinity College Dublin for her book in progress, Bohemian Ireland.

 

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