On September 21, 2011, Professor Colin Barr, a prolific young scholar on the Irish Church, will speak on "Ireland's Empire: The Roman Catholic Church in the Anglo-World, 1830-1922".

The lecture will take place at 4:00 p.m. in the Thompson Room of the Burns Library and is free and open to the public.

The Center for Irish Programs presents:

"Ireland's relationship with the Holy See reconsidered - from the end of the civil war (1923) to the Papal visit in 1979"

a lecture by Burns Visitin Scholar Professor Dermot Keogh, Emeritus Jean Monnet Professor, University College Cork

Response by Reverend Liam Bergin, Rector, Pontifical Irish College, Rome

Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 4:00 p.m. in the Burns Library.  The lecture will be followed by a reception in the Thompson Room of the Burns Library.

This event is free and open to the public.