Glucksman Ireland House, NYU

“Who Do We Think We Are?”
Economics Family-Style

Saturday, April 21st 2012 10am to 6pm

at NYU's 19 University Place, 1st floor

Writers, public figures, and scholars explore the experiences of the Irish and Irish-American family through a day of talks. Speakers discuss how finances influenced family decisions regarding emigration, marriage, and politics, and how these in turn affected the wider community.

Bestselling novelist and memoirist Mary Higgins Clark (the forthcoming I'll Walk Alone: A Novel; Kitchen Privileges) will deliver the keynote talk about her family's experience and its influence on her life and writing.

Professors Kerby Miller, author of the seminal Emigrants and Exiles, and Breandán Mac Suibhne (Ed., Society and Manners in Early Nineteenth Century Ireland) will discuss changes of fortune and immigration.

Professors Maureen O. Murphy (Ed., An Irish Literature Reader: Poetry, Prose, Drama) and Janet Nolan (Servants Of The Poor: Teachers And Mobility In Ireland And Irish America), talk about women?s role in immigration and upward mobility.

NYU Irish and Irish-American Studies faculty members Professors Linda Dowling Almeida and Miriam Nyhan speak on the Glucksman Ireland House NYU Oral History of Irish America project and what is revealed about domestic economy.

Bruce Morrison, former Congressman from Connecticut, immigration lawyer, and lobbyist, will bring us up to speed on where immigration policy is today and its directions for the future.

We will close the day with remarks by Noel Kilkenny, the Consul General of Ireland in New York.

Tickets:

Day Pass: $60 | Member’s Day Pass: $50
Includes all talks 9am–5pm. Does not include VIP reception.

Premium Pass: $100 | Member’s Premium Pass: $75
Includes all talks and the VIP reception.

Members of Glucksman Ireland House: to receive member pricing, please contact us for the discount code via ireland.house@nyu.edu or (212) 998-3950.
Enroll as a member and support our mission of excellence in education and providing access to the best in Irish and Irish-American culture.

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Program - Saturday, April 21st
9:30am	Registration and check-in at NYU’s 19 University Place, 1st floor | See Map >> Coffee, tea, and continental breakfast provided
10:00am	Welcoming remarks Judith McGuire, President, Glucksman Ireland House Advisory Board
10:10am	Session 1: Sharing Communities: Family Life Across the Atlantic Prof. Miriam Nyhan and Prof. Linda Dowling Almeida, Co-Directors of Glucksman Ireland House NYU's Oral History of Irish America Project, shed light on the trans-Atlantic strategies used in managing family economies and opportunities using excerpts from the Oral History Project.
11:15am	Coffee and tea break
11:30am	Session 2: Keynote Address from Mary Higgins Clark Best-selling novelist Mary Higgins Clark, author of the moving memoir Kitchen Privileges and her newest novel, I'll Walk Alone, will discuss her own Irish-American experience. Followed by book signing.
12:30pm	Lunch Local recommendations & special deals will be provided to participants.
2:00pm	Session 3: Wealth, Poverty, and Emigration Prof. Breandán Mac Suibhne of Centenary College talks about "The End of Outrage; or, The Informer and the Historian: The Great Famine and Popular Politics in County Donegal," followed by Prof. Kerby Miller's look at "Broken Families: Loss, Faith, and Fraternity in the Many Lives of Edmund Ronayne, 1832-1911."
3:30pm	Coffee and tea break
3:45pm	Session 4: Financing Futures: Sibling Support and Maternal Models Prof. Maureen Murphy of Hofstra University discusses how chain migration to the US was financed by women, including nuns, while Prof. Janet Nolan of Loyola University, Chicago, looks at upward mobility via mothers to daughters in America.
5:00pm	Session 5: U.S. Immigration Pathways for the Irish Today and Tomorrow Bruce Morrison, former Congressman from Connecticut, immigration lawyer, and lobbyist
5:45pm	Closing Remarks Noel Kilkenny, Consul General of Ireland, New York
6:00–7:15pm	Hors d'oeuvres reception at Glucksman Ireland House NYU 1 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003 | See Map >> for premium ticket holders only. Meet the day’s presenters and the faculty of NYU Irish and Irish-American Studies