Our own Peter Quinn, author of HOUR OF THE CAT, will be moderating the 8th annual Russo Lecture at Fordham University on Wednesday, April 26th at 6:00pm. The topic is "IRISH IN NEW YORK: Then and Now" featuring Edward T. O'Donnell, Linda Dowling Almeida, and Terry Golway, and they will be recounting the lively history of the Irish in New York from the Famine, through the Civil War, the Tammany Era, the Fenians and World War I and on up to our present day.Peter Quinn is currently at work on a collection of essays on the history of the Irish in urban America.
Admission is free, and it will be held at the McNally Amphitheater at 140 West 62nd Street in NYC.
--John Mark
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