Academic and KWWN Writer Patricia Kennedy invites you to the launch of her book Welcoming the Stranger: Irish Migrant Welfare in Britain since 1957
on Thurs 2nd July. The book tells the untold story of how the Catholic Church met the welfare needs of Irish emigrants in Britain since the 1950s. Based on a wealth of personal interviews and newly discovered archive material, Welcoming the Stranger offers a unique insight into how Anglo-Irish relations affected emigrants coming to Britain during turbulent times.
It has been favorably reviewed by Mary Kenny in the June 11th release of The Irish Catholic Newspaper: here is an excerpt
“Emigration is, to be sure, a loss of the mother country, and the Catholic clergy, particularly in rural Ireland, were acutely aware of the hard circumstances which drove emigrants forth. Indeed, as Patricia Kennedy’s account shows, the Irish chaplains serving the emigrant community in Britain did a lot more for the people than Irish Governments, which did very little.”
The book launch takes place at St Laurence’s Church (Dublin 7) at 6:30 pm on Thursday 2nd July.
RSVP: info@iap.ie / 045 895 562. Jimmy Deenihan TD, Minister for Diaspora Affairs, will be guest speaker for the Dublin launch.
Dr Patricia Kennedy is a writer and researcher. She was a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the School of Applied Social Science in UCD from 1995 to 2014. Prior to joining UCD in 1995, she was employed in both Ireland and Britain as a youth and community worker.
You can purchase the book at a discount rate from the following website:
