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Tyler Anbinder with Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York
May 30, 2024, 6-7:15pm Eastern Time
$12.50 ticket includes access to the live broadcast and a recording of the event afterword
$45 ticket includes access to the live broadcast, a recording of the event afterword, and a signed copy of book ($32.50 retail) sent by Priority Mail within the United States (by Media Mail in MA)
In this remarkable history, a weaving of scholarship and storytelling, the acclaimed historian Tyler Anbinder presents for the first time the Potato Famine generation’s individual and collective tales of struggle, perseverance, and triumph. Drawing on newly available records and a ten-year research initiative, Plentiful Country rescues the Famine immigrants from the margins of history and restores them to their rightful place at the center of the American story. Don’t miss Professor Anbinder’s in-depth presentation and discussion with genealogist Melanie McComb about how the stupendous migration impacted our country— nowhere more than New York where, by 1855, roughly a third of all adults living in Manhattan were immigrants who had escaped the hunger in Ireland. This new history reclaims the narratives of the refugees who settled in New York City and helped reshape the entire nation.
Please confirm your mailing address (or addresses if purchasing multiple tickets) by emailing kathleen.mackenzie@nehgs.org.
Additionally, please send questions for the author regarding their writing, research, or recent published works to Kathleen.Mackenzie@nehgs.org.
Presented by American Ancestors’ American Inspiration Series
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