Event Details - Reading Across Campus: A Scholar’s Funeral and the Transnational Politics of Irish Nationalism

The Literature Committee is hosting guest speaker Sean Farrell, professor of History at Northern Illinois University. His talk will focus 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.

Farrell is an award-winning author and former president of the American Conference for Irish Studies. His talk will also connect to “The Rising of the Moon” and Patrick O'Donnell's talk about the play and its Dublin theatre context. The presentation is made possible by a grant from the Provost.