The Lackawanna County Library Lecture Series presents its first speaker of the 2012 season.Irish Twilight: An Evening With Robert Kanigel, Author of On An Irish Island, will be presented Thursday, March 1st at 7 PM at the Everhart Museum at Nay Aug Park. A wine-and-cheese reception will precede the lecture.
Admission is free for Lackawanna County Library System card holders. Copies of On an Irish Island will be for sale for $26.95. Cash or check only.
Tickets are available at any Lackawanna County Library System library or the Everhart Museum.
Now abandoned, Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Ireland was one of the last strongholds of the Irish language and one of the most primitive places in Western Europe. In On an Irish Island, Robert Kanigel writes of the community there and the scholars and linguists who visited to capture a taste of a dying culture.
Just weeks before St. Patrick’s Day, Kanigel comes to Scranton to tell the story of this remote and beautiful place.
Sponsored by the Lackawanna County Library System, Pages & Places, and the Everhart Museum.
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