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The Bordeaux-Dublin Letters, 1757: Correspondence of an Irish Community Abroad

Bobst Library NYU 70 Washington Sq. South, NEW YORK, NY, United States

In celebration of the American launch of The Bordeaux-Dublin Letters, 1757: Correspondence of an Irish Community Abroad, NYU Glucksman Ireland House and La Maison Française NYU are co-sponsoring an evening with two of the co-editors. A collection of 125 letters taken from a captured Irish ship on its return to Dublin from France during the […]

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The Bordeaux-Dublin Letters, 1757: Voices of an Irish Community Abroad

Bobst Library NYU 70 Washington Sq. South, NEW YORK, NY, United States

It started in 1757 with the capture of an Irish wine ship on its way home from Bordeaux during the Seven Years' War. Most of the 125 letters carried aboard the Two Sisters of Dublin remained unopened until GIH's Prof. Thomas Truxes discovered them in a London archive two years ago. The voice of this […]