Irish Visitors, Irish Émigrés, and Irish-Americans

William M. Chace

Professor Emeritus, Stanford University

Sunday, May 22nd, 4pm

United Irish Cultural Center, 2700 45^th Avenue, San Francisco

The Irish Literary & Historical Society is pleased to present as guest speaker William M. Chace, Emeritus Professor of English at Stanford University, at our meeting on Sunday May 22, at 4:00PM.  While everyone knows about the massive migration, over the years, of the Irish people to America, and while everyone knows about the ways in which the demographic realities of this continent have been shaped by that migration, questions abound:

• The Irish come, but few return.  Why?
• More Irish women than men have immigrated.  Why?
• Today, as in the past, Irish writers have strongly given shape and definition to “English literature” but many of those writers, as well as other Irish artists, have chosen to live abroad and not in their native land.  Why?
• If language defines the culture of a country, what is the fate of Irish as a language in Ireland?  And has that language been involved as part of the Irish Diaspora? 

In addition to serving as Emeritus Professor of English at Stanford University, Dr. Chace is also the former president of Wesleyan University and Emory University.  He is a James Joyce scholar and teaches courses on Joyce, W. B. Yeats and other Irish writers.   This event is free for ILHS members, $5 suggested donation for visitors.

Tony Bucher

President

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