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Event
Irish Cultural Center Annual Breakfast
PLEASE NOTE: due to competing events in the area and high levels of traffic, we will be postponing this event to a later date. This online event is being cancelled.
The ICCs Annual Breakfast is a great opportunity to meet and mingle, with good food, pleasant company, and a review of the years activities and progress at the ICC. The public is welcome to attend this annual event.
Please join us on Sunday, September 30 at 10:00 am at the Irish Cultural Center, 429 Morgan Road in West Springfield, MA. Tickets are $25 for ICC Patrons and $30 for the general public. Order early! Tickets will not be sold at the door.
Journalist Eileen Markey, our featured speaker, will present "Memory Compels Us: Irish American History as a Call to Solidarity." Tyranny. Forced migration. Poverty. Xenophobia. Religious bigotry. These conditions describe both the early experience of the Irish in the U.S. and the current reality of newer arrivals. The journeys our people traveled are undertaken again, in different guise. Markey will mine episodes in Irish and Irish American history for hope, techniques of resilience and models of solidarity, drawing links to the struggles and joys of communities that find themselves where we once were.
Springfield native Eileen Markey is a writer and reporter whose work focuses on social movements, public policy and the stories of people far from power. She's particularly interested in issues of memory, history and storytelling. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, New York Public Radio and America Magazine, among other publications. She's the author of "A Radical Faith: The Assassination of Sr. Maura" (Nation 2016) which tells the true story of an Irish American woman's involvement in struggles for justice in Central America. Markey teaches journalism at Lehman College, part of the City University of New York. She lives in the Bronx with her husband and two sons.
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LocationIrish Cultural Center: Irish House Restaurant and Trinity Pub (View)
429 Morgan Road
West Springfield, MA 01089
United States
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| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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