“Who Do We Think We Are?” Economics Family-Style
Where: Glucksman Ireland House NYU
1 Washington Mews
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Writers, artists, and scholars explore the economics of the Irish and Irish-American family. Speakers discuss how finances influenced family decisions regarding emigration, marriage, and property, 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 as seen through family letters.
Professors Maureen O. Murphy (The Irish Bridget: Irish Immigrant Women in Domestic Service in America, 1840-1930) and Janet Nolan (Servants Of The Poor: Teachers And Mobility In Ireland And Irish America), tackle women’s emergence in a range of professions, as single mothers and as breadwinners.
NYU Irish and Irish-American Studies faculty members Professors Linda Dowling Almeida, Marion R. Casey and Miriam Nyhan speak on the Glucksman Ireland House NYU Oral History of Irish America project and what is revealed about domestic economy.
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.