Date & time
Thursday, October 24, 2019
7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Conferences & lectures
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Suffer the Children: Irish Famine Orphans and the Churches in Montreal, 1847-1848
Speaker(s)
Dr. Mark McGowan
Cost
Free
Organization
School of Irish Studies
Contact
Matina Skalkogiannis
514 848-2424 ext.8711
Where
Henry F. Hall Building
1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
Room H 1001.01
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14th Annual St. Patrick's Society Lecture by Dr. Mark McGowan, University of Toronto
Dr. Mark McGowan is a Professor in the Department of History, University of Toronto. He is a specialist in the religious, social, and communications history of Canada and Ireland. A recipient of four University Teaching Awards, Dr. McGowan served as Principal of St. Michael’s College from 2002 to 2011. The author of numerous books and articles on the Irish and the Catholic Church in Canada, he is currently working on a project about Irish Famine orphans in Canada (1847-1851).