Wednesday, February 18th, 7pm
Derry is the second largest city in Northern Ireland and has had a Catholic majority since 1850. It was witness to some of the most important events of the civil rights movement and the Troubles. Tonight, Margo Shea will focus on the peace process. Margo Shea provides a rich and nuanced account of the cultural, political, and social history of Derry using archival research, oral histories, landscape analysis, and public discourse illuminating Derry’s Irish cultural and political identities through the decades that saw Home Rule, Partition, and four significant political redistricting schemes designed to maintain unionist political majorities in the largely Catholic and nationalist city. Shea weaves local history sources, community folklore, and political discourse together to demonstrate how people maintain their agency in the midst of political and cultural conflict.
Margo Shea is Professor of History at Salem State University, where she teaches public history, Irish history and world history, oversees the public history graduate certificate program and supervises internships for History majors. At the heart of her work is a commitment to sharing the tools of public history for all, focusing on ways that center listening in our explorations of the past and do not ignore the larger structures around which memory and identity take and change shape.
We are proud to participate in Mass Cultural Council’s Card to Culture program.
Speaker Series every 3rd Wednesday, 7pm.
Including a temporary exhibit of related artifacts from the Society’s collections.
Tapley Memorial Hall 13 Page Street, Danvers MA.
Danvers Historical Society: 978-777-1666 or E-mail to dhs@danvershistory.org Donations appreciated.