16 October 2015

TODAY: Presentation "New Ireland: Migration, History and Changing Identities"

The Embassy of Ireland, together with the Irish Society and in partnership with Concordia’s School of Canadian Irish Studies, is hosting Dr. Jim MacPherson, University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI), on “New Ireland: Migration, History and Changing Identities.”

Dr. MacPherson is a social and cultural historian and his research focuses in particular on Irish and Scottish migration, diaspora and the British Empire.  He arrived at UHI's Centre for History in November 2011, following academic posts at University College Dublin, the University of Bristol, Leeds Trinity and All Saints College and the University of Sunderland.

The presentation is at the Residence of the Ambassador, 291 Park Road, Rockcliffe Park, Ottawa on
Friday 16 October at 7pm.

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