Tipp People and Places lecture
A change to the schedule for the Tipperary People and Places Lecture Series sees Dr Bernadette Whelan visit The Source, Thurles on Tuesday, February 20th, at 7.30pm to speak on 'American Propaganda and Ireland, 1917- 1918'.
The name of the American propaganda organisation was the Committee on Public Information and its Irish work both in the US and in Ireland has not been looked at previously. The context of Bernadette's talk is conscription in 1918; the themes are the diaspora, democracy, Anglo-American relations, the ending of the war, heading towards the 1918 elections and how President Woodrow Wilson's views on Ireland would never have allowed the cause of Irish independence to be part of his plans for the post-war world order.
Bernadette Whelan is Professor emerita, Department of History, University of Limerick and a member of the Royal Irish Academy Irish Academy. She has researched, written and taught on Irish diplomatic history, US history and on women's history. All are welcome.
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