Opening Lecture: An Gorta Mór

Opening Lecture: Join William Abbott, associate professor of History, as he discusses the historical origins of the Great Hunger/Irish Famine on Thursday, April 10 at 5:30 p.m. in the Quick Center for the Arts, Kelley Theatre, and streaming here.

Presented in conjunction with An Gorta Mór: Selections from Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, organized by Quinnipiac University and the Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum of Fairfield Exhibition (Walsh Gallery, April 11-August 16).

Image: James Arthur O’Connor, Scene in Connemara, 1828, oil on canvas. Courtesy of Quinnipiac University and the Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum of Fairfield Exhibition.