TOPIC: Irish in Brooklyn: The City of Homes Guest Speaker: Dr. Stephen Sullivan Saturday, 23 Mary 2015 2pm Parish House---McCloskey meeting room Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral 263 Mulberry Street New York, NY Before 1898, Brooklyn at times was the second largest city in the United States. Even today it is the most populous borough in NYC. Brooklyn also retains a distinctive and (some say) assertive culture. Since the mid-1800s the Irish in this “borough of churches” have exerted a major influence on its way of life. Simultaneously, Brooklyn has provided refuge and opportunities to Irish immigrants and their descendants seeking better ways of life. In doing so, it has impacted the Irish who settled and worked there. Dr. Stephen Sullivan has four degrees in history from Columbia University. He has been honored numerous times as one of the nation's top high school teachers by groups such as the Organization of American Historians, the National Teachers Hall of Fame, the Walt Disney American Teacher Award Program, and the U.S. Department of Education. He is known for the success of his students in research competitions like the Intel Science Talent Search, the National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Scholars program, and American Psychological Association poster sessions. Stephen Sullivan’s work has been published in journals such as New York Irish History and the Journal of Urban History.