Award-winning historian Hasia R. Diner will discuss her book, Opening Doors: The Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America (St. Martin’s Press, 2024), at Boston College on March 26 at 5 p.m. at Connolly House, 300 Hammond St. In Opening Doors, Diner tells a story of Irish and Jews immigrants that differs from the popular narrative. She shows how Irish and Jewish immigrants became steadfast allies in classrooms, picket lines, and political machines, and ultimately helped one another become key power players in shaping America’s future. Diner is professor emerita at the Departments of History and the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, and director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History. She is the author of numerous books, including We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holocaust, winner of a National Jewish Book Award and the American Jewish Historical Society’s Saul Viener Prize. Her talk is sponsored by the BC Irish Studies program.