MHS: The Gendering of Diaspora: Irish American Women Teachers and the Rise of the Irish American Elite, 1880‒1920

Event is Free. No Registration Required. 

Judith Harford, University College Dublin

Focusing on the period 1880‒1920, the peak of Irish emigration to the United States, this talk examines the education, professional training and wider public activism of first-generation Irish American women teachers.