Black Rock Historical Society Fall Speaker Series

Michael E. McCarthy, author, President of the Irish American Cultural Institute Rochester Chapter, and Advisory Board Irish Studies Program  St. John Fisher College will speak about this crisis that sparked renewed threat of an agrarian revolt centered in southern Ireland. Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton, the British Under-Secretary for the Colonies, devised a relief scheme to emigrate impoverished Irish out of Ireland and relocate to Upper Canada. This presentation of these little-known projects will describe the political and social ramifications for each country as well as the personal implications for the families.