Milford Library Hosts Irish Heritage Program

A program highlighting the accomplishments of the Irish in American during the Civil War will be hosted by the Milford Public Library. This event will take place on Friday, September 18^th at 2 p.m. prior to the kickoff of the Milford Irish Festival which begins at 6 p.m. that evening.

                The program will be presented by Bob Larkin, a researcher specializing in both the Irish and the Civil War. A Cheshire resident, Larkin will also address the Irish diaspora in America during the 1800’s.            

                Larkin is a member of the Connecticut Irish American Historical Society, the Civil War Round Table and the Irish History Round Table.  After his retirement he began working on his family tree, locating an ancestor born in Ireland who had joined Connecticut’s Irish Regiment in the Civil War and died at the battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1862. He became chairman of a group that dedicated a State of Connecticut Monument honoring the Ninth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers at the Vicksburg National Military Park in 2008.

                Larkin’s presentation will offer an informative look at this interesting subject.

                This program is free and open to the public.