* Winter Lecture Series: The Blue and the Green: The Irish of Portland in the Civil War Era

Sponsored by Spirits Alive at Eastern Cemetery
Presented by Matthew Jude Barker

Join local expert Matthew Jude Barker as he discusses topics from his most recent works, “Becoming American, Portland, Maine’s Irish and the Making of Immigrant America, 1840-1861” and “The Blue and the Green, The Irish of Portland Maine During the Civil War”. He will bring to life an amazingly transformative era in Portland history, discussing events such as the Great Hunger, immigration, Neal Dow and prohibition, bootlegging and crime, the "Rum Riot”, the Know-Nothings and nativists, Irish occupations, abolition, the railroad, the Panic of 1857, the war years, the Fenians, the Great Fire of July 4, 1866, and the dedication of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, among many other topics.

All lectures begin at 1:30pm
7th Floor Event Room in the Glickman Library
Bedford St., USM Portland Campus Lectures are presented free of charge, donations gratefully accepted.
For more information go to: www.spiritsalive.org/lectures
The Lecture Series is presented by Spirits Alive, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to the preservation of historic Eastern Cemetery, at the foot of Munjoy Hill on Congress St.