The Forum works to preserve and make available physical and electronic resources, via both the internet and the Forum’s library of physical materials housed at the LDS Family History Center in Plainview, NY and in the reference room at the Bethpage Public Library.
May 21, 2022
Patrick Young
The Effect of the Civil War on Irish Immigrants
Young will discuss the effect of the Civil War on Irish immigrants; their participation in the military; the effect of the massive loss of life on the Irish in the U.S. and on their families at home. He will talk about the politics of war from the decision to join the army, to the resistance to the draft, to the NY Draft Riots. Woven throughout are stories of nuns, revolutionaries, laborers and their wives, and others. Young, who is a Special Professor of Immigration Law at Hofstra University, writes the online series The Immigrants’ War and publishes the Reconstruction Era blog.
This will be a Hybrid meeting (in-person and on Zoom)
Hybrid Meeting Format
In-Person at the Bethpage Public Library (Check back here for any last-minute changes due to Covid)
10:00 a.m. Meet and Greet
10:15 – 10:45 a.m. Ask the Experts (One on One)
11:00 a.m. President and Guest Speaker
Zoom
11:00 a.m. President and Guest Speakers
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In-Person Meetings will be held at the Bethpage Public Library
47 Powell Ave., Bethpage, N.Y.
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Upcoming Presentations
June 18: Nicola Morris, Ireland’s 1901 and 1911 censuses