Our group focused on the Prologue to Say Nothing. This section of the book clearly situates Ireland in a transatlantic context, by highlighting the connections between Boston College and some of the key players in the Troublies. Our group uses transatlantic themes as an organizing principle and each annotation makes a connection to primary and secondary sources that reflect this central theme.
Prologue, page 1: Famine Era Immigration
” The Jesuits who founded the university in 1863 did so to educate the children of poor immigrants who had fled the potato famine in Ireland.”
Prologue, page 2: Boston College
“As Boston College grew and flourished over the next century and a half, it maintained close ties to the old country.”
A Reader's Guide to Say Nothing 