Historian Michael Hogan returns to present his latest work, Women of the Irish Rising: A People’s History. In Hogan’s 5th appearance on our stage, he will share portions of this exciting narrative drawn from the women’s journals and Irish and British field reports of the women who fought for Irish freedom and whose exploits have not been published in book form. Among them are a woman warrior who was shot three times by British soldiers and survived, a female doctor who treated the wounded on both sides, and a female yacht captain who brought arms to the rebels despite a British destroyer blockade. One Irish reviewer called the book “an invaluable new source of inspiration for young women and for lovers of freedom around the world.”

Michael Hogan is an historian and the author of 26 books including the Irish Soldiers of Mexico, Abraham Lincoln and Mexico, and Guns, Grit and Glory: How the US and Mexico Came Together to Defeat the Last Empire in the Americas. Hogan’s book The Irish Soldiers of Mexico was the inspiration for two major documentaries and a feature film starring Tom Berenger. He is a former professor of International Relations at the Autonomous University of Guadalajara, Emeritus Humanities Chair of the American School Foundation of Guadalajara, and Latin American consultant to the US State Department’s Office of Overseas Schools. He lives with the textile artist, Lucinda Mayo, and their Dutch Shepherd, Lola.