Jan. 18 - Wicklow Protestants and the World of Evangelicalism

Donald Akenson is an internationally acclaimed scholar and author who is considered the world's foremost authority on the Irish Diaspora. He is giving a lecture titled Wicklow Protestants and the World of Evangelicalism.

Akenson received his BA from Yale University and his doctorate from Harvard University. He is Professor of History at Queen's University Kingston, Ontario and Beamish Research Professor at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool, and Senior Editor of the McGill-Queen's University Press. As of 2007 his work included eighteen non-fiction books, including more than a dozen about Irish history, and five novels. Akenson won the Grawemeyer Award for God's Peoples (1992) and the Trillium Book Award for Conor: The Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien (1994). His book on the Bible, Surpassing Wonder (1998), was short-listed for the 1999 Governor General's Award for nonfiction. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Royal Historical Society (UK).

When:    Friday, January 18, 2012, at 7 p.m.
Where:    McEntee Reading Room, Room H-1001.01, Henry F. Hall Building (1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.), Sir George Williams Campus

Admission to this lecture is free of charge and open to the public

Related links:
•    Concordia's School of Canadian Irish Studies 
•    Queen’s University 
•    McGill-Queen’s University Press