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Vincent Feeney, a historian and adjunct faculty member, will discuss Pre-Famine Irish in Vermont, on Oct. 15 at 7:30 p.m. in Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building. Feeneys talk is part of the Center for Research on Vermonts research-in-progress seminar series.

Feeney has investigated the surprisingly large numbers of people from Ireland who emigrated to Vermont in the years prior to 1840. In this seminar he will report on what he has discovered about early Irish proprietors like Crean Brush, Matthew Lyon, and John Kelly, and on the interesting figure of Bethels Michael Flynn. Flynn's story raises interesting questions about assimilation and ethnic identity in eighteenth-century America. Feeney will also relate his findings concerning Vermonts oldest Irish community, Fairfield.

Feeney is a retired Burlington businessman and a longtime adjunct professor of Irish history at the University of Vermont. In the late 1990s he was president of the Chittenden County Historical Society. He has written widely on Vermont and Ireland: His books include Vermont: An Illustrated History, with John Duffy; and The Great Falls on Onion River: A History of Winooski, Vermont. His articles have appeared in EireIreland, the journal of Irish historical studies in the U.S., in The Encyclopedia of the Irish in America, and in The Vermont Encyclopedia.

Individuals requiring accommodations should contact Sally Knight at at 802-656-3166 by Oct. 7.

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