Make Your Own Comic: The Jamestown Relief Mission to Ireland
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| Dates: | Tue from 4/18/17 - 4/18/17 |
| Hours: | 2:00pm - 3:30PM |
| Ages: | Kids, Teens |
| In/Outdoor: | Indoor |
| Cost: | Free see below |
| Category: | Arts & Crafts |
Historians will tell participants two stories related to Irish immigration.
The first will explore the famine relief mission from Boston to Ireland led by Robert Bennet Forbes aboard the Jamestown.
The second will explore the life of John Boyle O’Reilly, a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, or Fenians.
For his part in the Fenian conspiracy, he was convicted and sent to Australia.
He escaped from prison, made his way to America, and settled in Boston, finding work with the Catholic newspaper the Pilot, eventually becoming a celebrated writer and poet, as well as the paper’s editor and co-owner.
After the talk, local comic book artists will help the young historians make their own historical comic depicting stories of Irish immigration.
| COST | ↑ top |
free
| WEBSITE | ↑ top |
www.masshist.org/calendar/event?event=2084
| LOCATION | ↑ top |
1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA, 02215 map
Phone: 617-646-0578
close to Green Line B, C or D - Hynes Convention Center
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