Details
$29 (inclusive of fees) 2 hoursDate(s)
Sat, May 3, 2025
2:00pm
Contact
boxoffice@irishartscenter.org
888-616-0274
Location
Irish Arts Center Library
726 11th Avenue
Hell's Kitchen, NYC
Overview
This event is sold-out, but you can sign up to be notified if tickets are released.
The Great Famine (1845–52) was the most transformative event in modern Irish history, yet it also looms large in the global history of hunger with resonances up to the present day. This one-day history workshop explores the meaning of the Irish Famine in this wider context, adopting a comparative lens and drawing on parallels from across the field of contemporary famine studies. Led by Dr. Peter Hession, social historian and faculty fellow at NYU.
Presented with generous support from the Irish Hunger Memorial.
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