CHRISTINE KINEALY, PH.D., IRISH HISTORY PROFESSOR
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF  CENTRAL LANCASHIRE, ENGLAND,
TO LECTURE AT SETON HALL UNIVERSITY

SOUTH ORANGE, NJ. On Thursday, March 31, Seton Hall University will welcome Christine Kinealy, Ph.D., professor of modern Irish history at the University of Central Lancashire, England.  Kinealy will deliver a lecture titled: "Repeal, Republicanism and Revolution: The 1848 Uprising in Ireland" at 2:30 p.m. in the Walsh Library Beck Room on the University campus, 400 South Orange Avenue.  For more information, call Alan DeLozier at (973) 275-2378.

Kinealy, a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, has published extensively on the impact of the Great Irish Famine.  Her publications have included A New History of Ireland, A Death-Dealing Famine: The Great Hunger in Ireland and A Disunited Kingdom: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

In addition to her career as an author, she has lectured on the relationship between poverty, famine and emigration in Ireland, India, Spain, Canada, the United States and New Zealand.  In 1997, she was invited to speak about the Irish Famine in both the American House of Congress and the British House of Commons.  Six years later, she conducted research at Drew University on Irish-American nationalism in the 1840s.  

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