Ireland’s “Great Hunger” will be the focus of a program at the Seymour Historical Society on Sunday, March 23 at 2 p.m.
The program will be hosted by Grace Brady, director of the Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, on the campus of Quinnipiac University in Hamden. She will discuss how a blight in the 1840s wiped out Ireland’s potato crop, leading to widespread famine and the migration to America of about 2 million Irish people.
“The Great Hunger” ultimately reshaped the politics of Great Britain and Ireland and the composition of American society, and spawned scores of sculptures, paintings and other art, some of which is found at Quinnipiac’s unique museum.
The Seymour Historical Society is located at 59 West Street, near the Trinity Episcopal Church.
The program is free to 2014 Seymour Historical Society members and $5 for non-members.
Doors open at 1 p.m. for those who wish to view the Society’s exhibits.
For more information, call 203 – 881-2156, contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or visit www.seymourhistoricalsociety.org.
