Professor of English at the University of Connecticut Mary Burke presents a talk that draws from her new book, "Race, Politics and Irish-America: A Gothic History" (Oxford University Press, March 2023). Burke examines the cultural legacies of the forcibly transported Irish, the Scots-Irish, and post-Famine Catholic immigrants through the words and lives of Black and white writers and public figures in the Americas, from Andrew Jackson to Grace Kelly and the Caribbean-Irish Rihanna. Introduced by Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’52 Professor in Irish Letters Fintan O’Toole.