The Voices of Diaspora: Exploring Irish Immigration

The Noble Maritime Collection is honored to welcome Dr. Elizabeth Stack, Executive Director of the American Irish Historical Society, as part of the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art's The Voices of Diaspora series. In this presentation, Dr. Stack will recount eyewitness testimonies and examine conditions leading to the devastating failure of potato crops between 1846 and 1851, the response of landlords and the British government, and life on the so-called coffin ships as they crossed the Atlantic Ocean to America.

Prior to her current appointment, Dr. Stack served as Executive Director of the Irish American Heritage Museum in Albany, NY, and as Associate Director at Fordham University’s Institute of Irish Studies. She completed her Ph.D. focusing on Irish and German immigrants in New York at the turn of the twentieth century at Fordham University and holds a master’s degree in Anglo-Irish Relations in the 20th Century from University College Dublin.  

This event is free with museum admission.

Image: Emigrants Leaving Queenstown for New York, 1874, courtesy of Dr. Stack