Ernie O'Malley Lecture: Prof. Thomas M. Truxes on "Ireland, New York, and the 18th Century Atlantic World"

Thursday, November 29th at 7pm
at NYU's Kimmel Center for University Life, 60 Washington Square South, Room 914

Professor Thomas M. Truxes, Trinity College, Hartford, gives the ninth annual lecture in this series endowed by Cormac K. H. O'Malley in honor of his father. Professor Truxes is the author of Irish American Trade 1660-1783 (Cambridge University Press, 1988) and Letterbook of Greg & Cunningham, 1756-57: Mercants of New York and Belfast (Oxford University Press for The British Academy, 2001), correspondence from the most successful Irish-American trading firm of the colonial period. His talk will be based on his current book project entitled New York at War: Trading with the Enemy and the Roots of the American Revolution which will be published by Yale University Press in 2008. Though built almost entirely upon archival research in Britain, Ireland, and North America, New York at War is a narrative history intended for a wide audience.  Readers will see the central role Irish merchants played in New York’s extensive trade with the French enemy during the Seven Years’ War (our French and Indian War) and how that trade led to the involvement of key figures in the city’s Irish community in the early phase of the Revolution.

Please note the venue is NYU Kimmel Center for University Life, 60 Washington Square South, 9th floor, room 914.

Free admission.

Please RSVP to (212) 998-3950 (option 3) or email ireland.house@nyu.edu.