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SUMMARY:LIVE Community Discussion on the Irish Influence in New Orlean
 s with Dr. Laura Kelley
DESCRIPTION:\nThis is a discussion that will highlight the colorful hi
 story of the Irish in the great American city of New Orleans.  And, i
 f you really needed another reason to join in on the chat, Tara O'Grad
 y will be providing two participants in the discussion, drawn at rando
 m, copies of her new album, \"Irish Bayou.\"\n\nLaura D. Kelley was bo
 rn in New York City but spent her childhood in Mexico, her teen years 
 in Texas, Alaska, US Virgin Islands and her twenties in Europe and Cal
 ifornia. The desire to travel the world runs through her veins courtes
 y of her Irish ancestors and she assumed that moving every few years t
 o a new locale would continue ad infinitum.  However, after moving to
  New Orleans to complete her Ph.D., she realized she had finally found
  a place to call home.\nHer Irish roots dictated the focus of her stud
 y, and Irish luck lent a hand when she met on her first day in the Cre
 scent City a man from “da Channel”- the Irish Channel – with an 
 unusual accent reminiscent of New York City even though he was born an
 d raised in New Orleans.  Unbeknownst to many outsiders, Kelley inclu
 ded, the city had and still has a significant Irish community.   Lau
 ra D. Kelley realized then and there that she had found the subject an
 d specific focus of her research.\nSince that “aha” moment twenty 
 years ago, Kelley has developed numerous classes about the Irish as we
 ll as the culture, history and foodways of New Orleans and Southern Lo
 uisiana. In addition, she has directed several research projects with 
 St. Alphonsus Art and Culture Center as well as Save our Cemeteries. T
 hese projects have uncovered different facets of Irish history of the 
 city using traditional and non-traditional primary sources.  She cons
 iders herself fortunate to live in a city that contains such a rich cu
 lture and such rich archival resources. A lifetime is not long enough 
 to explore all these opportunities.\nKelley spends her time, researchi
 ng, teaching, and travelling.   She lives in New Orleans with her pa
 rtner, art historian Thomas M. Bayer, and in typical Irish (as well as
  New Orleans) fashion her immediate and extended family live within wa
 lking distance.  Typical of Irish chain migration practices, other me
 mbers of the Kelley family have followed Laura, and by now a new gener
 ation of this clan, born in Orleans Parish, has further strengthened t
 he roots of this Irish American family in this city.\nThis interactive
  community discussion will be held in our Main Chat Room.\n\nFor more 
 information visit https://thewildgeese.irish/events/live-community-dis
 cussion-on-the-irish-influence-in-new-orleans-w
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