Ken Egan and Ken Robison will be in coversation about Ken Egan's new book, Irish Born, American Made.

John Egan was born to poverty yet participated in some of the most dramatic events of the nineteenth century, including mass migration to the United States during a catastrophic famine, the “opening” of Japan via gunboat diplomacy, Sherman’s March to the Sea, and homesteading in the Upper Midwest. In Irish Born, American Made' his great-grandson, Ken Egan will examine the processes by which a scorned British subject became a proud American citizen with Ken Robison.