Sean Farrell's Lecture on " A Scholar's Funeral and Transnational Politics of Irish Nationalism"

Dr Sean Farrell, Prodessor of History at Northern Illinois University is an invited speaker for Reading Across Campus series. The talk focuses on the death and funeral procession of Fr. Eugene O'Growney, an Irish language activist who died in Los Angeles in 1899. Irish and Irish-American cultural nationalist organizations brought his body back to Ireland in 1903 for a well-attended funeral procession and burial in Dublin. It's a good story that underlines the power and nature of Irish cultural nationalism in the era, and well as its global dimensions. The talk will also connect to The Rising of the Moon and Patrick O'Donnell's talk about the play and its Dublin theatre context.

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