In this episode, we speak with Bernadette Whelan, Professor Emeritus in the Department of History, University of Limerick, Ireland.  Her scholarly expertise includes extensive work on American-Irish diplomatic relations and on women’s history.  Sarah’s husband John James (J.J.) was employed by the US government as Consul to Queenstown, Ireland  (now Cobh) from 1882-1893.  At the time, Queenstown was a major port for migration to America; these were also years when the Irish people increasingly resisted British colonial rule.  Professor Whelan explains the Piatts’ sympathies with the Irish cause as well as how Sarah, J.J. and their children—some of whom stayed in Ireland when their parents returned to the U.S.—developed transatlantic identities.



Interview date: August 23, 2021

In this episode, we speak with Bernadette Whelan, Professor Emeritus in the Department of History, University of Limerick, Ireland. Her scholarly expertise includes extensive work on American-Irish diplomatic relations and on women’s history. Sarah’s husband John James (J.J.) was employed by the US government as Consul to Queenstown, Ireland (now Cobh) from 1882-1893. At the time, Queenstown was a major port for migration to America; these were also years when the Irish people increasingly resisted British colonial rule. Professor Whelan explains the Piatts’ sympathies with the Irish cause as well as how Sarah, J.J. and their children—some of whom stayed in Ireland when their parents returned to the U.S.—developed transatlantic identities. Interview date: August 23, 2021

In this episode, we speak with&nbsp;Bernadette Whelan, Professor Emeritus in the Department of History, University of Limerick, Ireland.&nbsp; Her scholarly expertise includes extensive work on American-Irish diplomatic relations and on women’s history.&nbsp; Sarah’s husband John James (J.J.) was employed by the US government as Consul to Queenstown, Ireland &nbsp;(now Cobh) from 1882-1893.&nbsp; At the time, Queenstown was a major port for migration to America; these were also years when the Irish people increasingly resisted British colonial rule.&nbsp; Professor Whelan explains the Piatts’ sympathies with the Irish cause as well as how Sarah, J.J. and their children—some of whom stayed in Ireland when their parents returned to the U.S.—developed transatlantic identities.



Interview date: August 23, 2021

Poets in Exile

Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836-1919) was a popular, prolific, and well-regarded poet during her lifetime, writing more than 600 poems across more than half a century. Her earliest work, composed when she was still the unmarried Kentucky teenager Sallie M. Bryan, was published by the most influential newspaper editors in the nation. She married Ohio poet John James Piatt in 1861. In the tumultuous decades ahead, her work met with robust national and transatlantic acclaim. She fell into obscurity upon her death and was rediscovered only in the 1990s, by numerous scholars working independently of one another. Since that time, she has quickly gained stature as a major artist, now standing at the brink of the American canon. In this collection of interviews, scholars who contributed to Piatt’s rediscovery tell their stories about how they came to “find” Piatt—and why she merits status as one of America’s great authors.

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