This year is the 100th anniversary of 1916 Easter Uprising. This event is one of many that will be featured on campus related to1916 and Irish politics and culture throughout the year.
Timothy J. Meagher is Associate Professor of History and Curator of American Catholic History Collections at Catholic University. He worked as a Program Officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities, where he directed the National Conversation on American Pluralism and Identity. Dr. Meagher has written Inventing Irish America: Generation, Class and Ethnic Identity in a New England City, 1880 to 1928 (2001) and the Columbia Guide to Irish American History (2005) and edited two collections of essays including, with Professor Ronald Bayor of Georgia Tech, The New York Irish. Both The New York Irish and Inventing Irish America, won the James Donnelly prize for the Best Book in Irish or Irish American history offered by the American Conference for Irish Studies. He is working on a general history of the Irish in America, “The Lord is Not Dead” to be published by Yale University Press and on a study of the construction of images of Irish and Italian Americans in film and television since the 1960s.