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Genealogy Club: Telling the Irish American story through one family’s history

Mary Pay Kelly will discuss her research in preparing and writing write the best-selling trilogy of historical novels on the Irish American experience “Galway Bay “ “Of Irish Blood “ and “Irish Above All."

"From my great great grandmother’s Honora against-the- odds survival from the Great Starvation through her grandson Ed Kelly‘s rise to power as the mayor of Chicago and political force in the Democratic Party, the trilogy makes vivid the lives of my ancestors in a way I hope illuminates all of yours."