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Add this Event to Calendar 05/10/2022 06:30 PM 05/10/2022 07:30 PM Gather Around a Book - Say Nothing - Humanities Book Discussion

Our newest online book discussion group for adults, Gather around a Book, will feature a different Humanities discipline - history, literature, philosophy, ethics, archaeology, anthropology, linguistics, geography, the law or legal theory, classics, and cultural or religious studies -  each month.  We will "gather 'round" a shared book in a Zoom discussion facilitated by a humanities expert.  We will alternate monthly between fiction and non-fiction.

This month's discussion will be centered on the title, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe, a bestselling account that focuses on a murder in Northern Ireland as a lens to explore Northern Ireland’s political culture and relationship with the United Kingdom.  This intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, a New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year, Long Listed for the National Book Award, Winner of the Orwell Prize, TIME Magazine’s Best Nonfiction Book of the Year, and Best Book of the Decade by EW and LitHub.  Copies of the month's selection will be provided for all participants.

Our discussion facilitator is Mary Kelly, Ph.D., a Professor of History at Franklin Pierce University, where she has taught for over twenty years. Her Masters in Modern Irish History is from National University of Ireland, Galway, and she earned a Ph.D. in Modern American History from Syracuse University. Her research explores Irish-American ethnic identity within spheres of faith, political culture, the enduring relationship with Ireland, and Irish-American involvement with the Irish Revolution. Her publications include books The Shamrock and the Lily (2005) and Ireland's Great Famine in Irish American History (2016; 2014), and her current research encompasses nationalist expression and ethnic Irish Protestant contribution to the ethnic identity. Professor Kelly presents on Famine impact and memory, ethnic political culture, and immigrant settlement in Boston and New York. She was honored with a 2014 Keene State College President's Outstanding Women in New Hampshire Award and the 2016 Holyoke St. Patrick's Day Committee Ambassador Award.

This program is funded by a SHARP grant from New Hampshire Humanities, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities, through the American Rescue Plan.

(This grant funded program will meet monthly on the second Tuesday each month at 6:30 pm - through May 2022. )



Contact: Julie Perrin 603.532.7301 jperrin@jaffreypubliclibrary.org
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