Tag Archives: Ireland

Irish author Angela Bourke

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Bookworm

Angela Bourke, author of The Burning of Bridget Cleary and Maeve Brennan: Homesick at the New Yorker, will discuss her research with an undergraduate class that is opening up the presentation to the public.  The “Irish Material Culture”  class will … Continue reading →

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Catholic Church & abuse crisis: a view from Ireland

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Bookworm

The Irish Times Religious Affairs correspondent Patsy McGarry will discuss child sexual abuse and the Catholic Church on Mar. 24 at 4 p.m. in Devlin Hall 101. McGarry’s work has been recognized with a National Media Award and the Templeton … Continue reading →

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How TV transformed Irish society

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Bookworm

In A Loss of Innocence?: Television and Irish Society, 1960-72, author Robert Savage, an adjunct associate professor of history at Boston College, explores how television helped facilitate a process of modernization that slowly transformed Irish society during the 1960s. Television … Continue reading →

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