Register HERE for the 12th September 2024!
In this special panel discussion, Dr. Alexander L. Ames, Director of Outreach & Engagement at the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia, will interview leaders of the Princess Grace Irish Library to learn more about Princess Grace, the origins of the library, the work of the library today, and how Princess Grace’s legacy lives on in Philadelphia, Monaco, and Mayo, Ireland.
This event is part of a programming partnership between the Princess Grace Irish Library and the Rosenbach Museum & Library. Learn more about the Rosenbach
- This program is a free virtual event
- Register HERE
- Note the time is USA.
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About the Panelists
Peter K. Murphy, a retired American career diplomat from Boston, Massachusetts, has been a Trustee of the Princess Grace Irish Library since 2018. A longtime resident of the Principality, Mr. Murphy was a lifelong friend of the late Princess Grace and the Prince’s family.
Paula Farquharson is Director of the Princess Grace Irish Library in Monte Carlo, Monaco since 2021.
Dr. Alexander L. Ames is Director of Outreach & Engagement at the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia. He will moderate the discussion with the program’s panelists from Monaco.
This year, the Rosenbach Museum & Library has launched a programming partnership with the Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco, to trace the global impact of Irish literature and culture—and the many links that connect Philadelphia, Monaco and County Mayo, Ireland, today.
The Rosenbach explores the lasting legacy of the Irish diaspora. We are delighted to bring you in partnership with the Kelly House in Philadelphia and the Rosenbach Museum & Library the recording of a memorable evening in Princess Grace Kelly’s childhood home in Philadelphia to learn about two of the most famous Irish immigrant families in American history: the Kennedys and the Kellys.
Hosted by Rosenbach Board of Directors members Gage Johnston and Thi Phan, this immersive, the lively event began with Celtic harp, 1960s pop hits, and a wine reception in the stately rooms of The Kelly house, which was recently purchased and restored by her son, His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco.
In the cozy drawing room the conversation took place with Irish Studies scholar Mary Burke, author of Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History (Oxford University Press 2023). Professor Burke and Dr. Alexander Lawrence Ames, the Rosenbach’s Director of Outreach & Engagement, discussed the unexpected connections between the Kellys and the Kennedys, comparing their cultural contexts and afterlives, and placing them in the perspective of Irish immigration history.
For more information about this journey of discovery click HERE.
June 1961, Princess Grace standing in the field beside her grandfather's cottage in County Mayo where he was born in 1847 and lived until he was 20 years old and emigrated to the USA and settled in Philadelphia - where Grace née Kelly was born.