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Irish Cultural Heritage Day
Irish Cultural Heritage Day! On\nThursday, April 3, from 4:30-7pm in the Heritage Room of the Maxwell Library,\njoin the Irish Studies Program for the official unveiling of the Dr. Charles\nFanning Irish Studies and Poetry Collection, followed by Royalty: Grace\nKelly, the Kennedys, and Irish-American Assimilation with Professor Mary M.\nBurke, University of Connecticut, and Irish music with the Lindsays. \n\nThe event will begin with the official unveiling of the Dr.\nCharles Fanning Irish Studies and Poetry Collection. Dr. Fanning was a\nmember of the English faculty at BSU before becoming the Director of Irish\nStudies at Southern Illinois University. One of the country's leading scholars\non Irish-American Studies, he has written extensively on the Irish-American\nexperience in literature and history. His well-received book, The Irish\nVoice in America, has been a foundational resource of other Irish-American\nStudies scholars, including our guest speaker, Professor Mary Burke.\n\nMary\nBurke is a Professor of English and the Irish Literature Concentration\nCoordinator at the University of Connecticut. Her work has been placed with\nNPR, the Irish Times, RTÉ, and Faber. Professor Burke is a Former University\nof Notre Dame Irish Institute NEH Fellow, MLA Irish Literature Committee chair,\nand a 2022 Trinity College Dublin LHR Fellow. She is a graduate of TCD and\nQueen’s University Belfast. Her book,\n Race,\nPolitics, and Irish America: A Gothic History, will be\navailable to purchase.\n\nAfter Professor Burke’s talk, the Lindsays will\nperform Irish music. The\nLindsays blend instruments, rhythms, and textures. Susan plays sax, Irish\nflute, and whistle, and Stephen, a native of Dublin, Ireland, plays guitar and\nsings. They add upright bass, fiddle, accordion, and a variety of world\npercussion instruments.\n\nOpen to the BSU community and the public.
