STAIR NA HÉIREANN | IRISH HISTORY
FEBRUARY 2 AT 1:30PM IN THE CAROLAN ROOM
Dr. Ian Delahanty discuss “Hibernianism” or “Americanism?” The Irish Origins of Irish-American Anti-Abolitionism.

Drawing from portions of his newly released book ‘Embracing Emancipation: A Transatlantic History of Irish Americans, Slavery, and the American Union, 1840-1865’ Dr. Ian Delahanty offers a novel explanation for Irish-American anti-abolitionism by uncovering the emergence of an Irish critique of abolitionism in Famine-era Ireland.

The Irish critique of abolitionism coalesced around a cadre of nationalists who viewed the transatlantic antislavery movement as neglectful of the welfare of Irish peasants and a distraction from the cause of Irish sovereignty. Amid the Famine migration and simultaneous acceleration of the sectional crisis over slavery, Irish-born newspaper editors, exiled nationalists, and common workers transformed the Irish critique of abolitionism into an Irish-American critique of antislavery writ large.

Dr. Delahanty is an Associate Professor of History Humanities & Social Sciences Department Springfield College.

Tickets $5.00 (Students with ID $2.00) No scrip or credit cards
Register online: gaclectures@gmail.com.
Subject: Irish History. Please provide name, address, phone
Note – time change for this lecture only is 1:30 p.m.

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The Fréamh Éireann Genealogy Group would like to thank Féile and the Irish Language Group for their continued sponsorship of our Irish History Lectures.