Donlon lecture on Minnesota immigration from Galway
Posted: Tue May 23, 2023 11:27 am
May 24 online event, requiring registration on a safe site
Not squarely a Co. Clare topic, but a great one for those of us who have dipped a toe into the vast lake of immigrants drawn to Minnesota in the 1800s. The Irish were some of the first there, suffering through Native American raids on settler homes in the early 1860s. It turns out that, with the U.S. Civil War ending 1865, the lure of the area increased. An English Quaker named Tuke devised an emigration scheme for the Connemara region of Co. Galway, starting in 1875 and apparently lasting through the early 1900s, aiding relocation to Minnesota. Those earlier Clare immigrants would have been employing and marrying members of this later wave of Irish. An Irish professor, Regina Donlon, took an interest in this, developing an academic study later published as a book (2014) and now the subject of a free online lecture presented in a migration studies series (scroll down to the last-listed one):
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/migratio ... 3872040607
For those of us in the Eastern time zone, the lecture will start at noon on May 24th (tomorrow as I post this). Eventbrite is a conventional, safe site for lectures; it is used widely in the academic community. I have been registering with that website for such events for years without any annoying post-event extraneous contacts from the site.
To register, use the above link and click on the red-area "Select a date" which will automatically result in the right registration page, without actually selecting a date (this lecture is the last in the series). You must input your identity and email address in 2 different places, so be sure to keep scrolling down the webpage, where you also must respond to various questions that sound like they expect you to be in an organized academic community. Don't worry about that - I have been registering for this type of event on this site, by clicking the "Other" category in such queries. You don't have to make up anything in order to be qualified and accepted.
Eventbrite will immediately send a confirming email to the address you provide, and then later it will send another email with the lecture link. No additional registration needed (unlike events on Zoom, which require more work to access Zoom itself). When the lecture time arrives, just click on the provided link within the email, preferably 5 to 10 minutes in advance of the lecture start time.
SMC
Not squarely a Co. Clare topic, but a great one for those of us who have dipped a toe into the vast lake of immigrants drawn to Minnesota in the 1800s. The Irish were some of the first there, suffering through Native American raids on settler homes in the early 1860s. It turns out that, with the U.S. Civil War ending 1865, the lure of the area increased. An English Quaker named Tuke devised an emigration scheme for the Connemara region of Co. Galway, starting in 1875 and apparently lasting through the early 1900s, aiding relocation to Minnesota. Those earlier Clare immigrants would have been employing and marrying members of this later wave of Irish. An Irish professor, Regina Donlon, took an interest in this, developing an academic study later published as a book (2014) and now the subject of a free online lecture presented in a migration studies series (scroll down to the last-listed one):
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/migratio ... 3872040607
For those of us in the Eastern time zone, the lecture will start at noon on May 24th (tomorrow as I post this). Eventbrite is a conventional, safe site for lectures; it is used widely in the academic community. I have been registering with that website for such events for years without any annoying post-event extraneous contacts from the site.
To register, use the above link and click on the red-area "Select a date" which will automatically result in the right registration page, without actually selecting a date (this lecture is the last in the series). You must input your identity and email address in 2 different places, so be sure to keep scrolling down the webpage, where you also must respond to various questions that sound like they expect you to be in an organized academic community. Don't worry about that - I have been registering for this type of event on this site, by clicking the "Other" category in such queries. You don't have to make up anything in order to be qualified and accepted.
Eventbrite will immediately send a confirming email to the address you provide, and then later it will send another email with the lecture link. No additional registration needed (unlike events on Zoom, which require more work to access Zoom itself). When the lecture time arrives, just click on the provided link within the email, preferably 5 to 10 minutes in advance of the lecture start time.
SMC