Borrisoleigh history talk on social change

Local native and Professor of Economic & Social History at Queen’s University Belfast Liam Kennedy will deliver a lecture at Borrisoleigh Community Centre on Friday April 10th at 8pm.

Guest of Borrisoleigh Historical Society, Mr Kennedy will discuss 'The Rural Community in a Larger Irish Setting'.
“The broad theme is social change in rural Ireland as seen through the prism of my own parish, Borrisoleigh in North Tipperary,” Mr Kennedy said ahead of the event.
“In the 1950s and the 1960s a number of studies appeared which proclaimed the death of rural Ireland. Most of these came out of the West of Ireland and somehow did not seem to fit the rural world I had experienced growing up in Tipperary. Thus began an interest in marriage patterns, dowries, farm inheritance, land hunger, religious change, women in rural society, and much else. I hope to explore these and related themes, and would be delighted to hear of the life experiences of others as well.”
Liam Kennedy was born in Borrisoleigh in 1946, well before the era of rural electrification, the Friesian cow, Radio Telefís Éireann and the European Union. His interests include social change in Irish rural society, the Great Irish Famine and the Troubles in Northern Ireland. He is currently completing a book of historical essays, 'The Irish', which he hopes to publish this year.