Author Event: Ken Egan, Jr.

Join us for an evening with author Ken Egan Jr., including a talk & book signing for his new book coming out in November.

Ken Egan Jr., Irish Born, American Made: The Life and Myth of Captain John Egan

“A fascinating, deeply researched saga of the loss and promise of immigration. In the particulars of his Irish immigrant ancestors—in their travails, trials, and triumphs—Egan Jr. shreds old clichés and sheds new light on America’s continuing ambivalence toward the newly arrived. A timely account.”—Peter Quinn, author of Banished Children of Eve: A Novel of Civil War New York

Born to poverty in the Irish county of Tipperary, John Egan participated in some of the most dramatic events of the nineteenth century, including mass migration to the United States during a catastrophic famine, the “opening” of Japan via gunboat diplomacy, Sherman’s March to the Sea, and homesteading in the Upper Midwest. In…