Academic Events
The Irish Emigrant Letter: A conversation with historian Kerby A. Miller
Pulitzer-nominated historian Kerby A. Miller began compiling an archive of Irish emigrant letters in the 1970s. The letters, which number in the thousands, date from the later seventeenth century to the middle of the twentieth century.
In this in-conversation event, he discusses the archive, and the unique online database created at the University of Galway to showcase the material. Themes in the collection range from descriptions of major events in US and Irish history to longings for home and the economic fortunes of emigrants who made their way across the American continent.