- Joined
- Jan 7, 2013
- Location
- Long Island, NY
I will be speaking tonight on Irish Immigrants in the Civil War at the Irish Cultural Society in Garden City, N.Y. As I have mentioned before this is my first time giving a live in-door lecture in a year-and-a-half. I will be covering why Irish immigrants came to the U.S., where they settled, the Know Nothing reaction, the outbreak of war, recruitment of soldiers, immigrant women during the war years, the Draft Riots' racial attacks on African Americans, the impact of war on families, and immigrants in the post-war world. The program is free. -Pat Young