The AGM and dinner will be held on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at The University Club, 2047 Mansfield Street, Montreal.  The Annual Meeting will begin at 5:30 p.m., the pre-dinner cocktail will be from 6-7 p.m., and dinner will be served at 7 p.m.

Our guest speaker this year will be Professor Maurice Bric, a distinguished historian from University College Dublin. Professor Bric was educated at University College Cork, The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Pennsylvania. He currently teaches history at University College Dublin. He has published extensively on the histories of Ireland and America and his most recent book, Philadelphia, Ireland and the Reinvention of America, 1760-1800 won the prestigious Historical Research Prize for 2009. He has also held a number of posts in public service in both Ireland and within the wider European Union, most recently as Chairman of the Irish Research Council. In the late 1980s, he took leave from his academic career to serve as Special Advisor to Ireland’s Foreign Minister. He is also a Board member of the Fulbright Commission, the Institute for British-Irish Studies, the European University and the Royal Irish Academy, of which he was a recent vice-president. He lives in Dublin, Ireland.  Professor Bric will speak on "Reflections on Modern Ireland:  The Past as Future".