Mary Pat Kelly
Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 1 p.m.
Sponsored by the Chelmsford Geneaolgy Club and the Chelmsford Library.
Funded by the Chelmsford Friends of the Library.

Author and filmmaker Mary Pat Kelly will visit Chelmsford and talk about her latest novel, "Galway Bay." It is the story of one Irish family's journey to America during Ireland's Great Potato Famine in the mid-19th century. Though fiction, "Galway Bay" is based on Mary Pat Kelly's own great-great-grandmother, Honora Kelly who escaped with her family from the Great Starvation of 1840’s Ireland and settled in Chicago. The family helped turn Chicago from a frontier town into the "City of the Century."

Kelly's epic novel "Galway Bay" is a universal story that for genealogists will shed light on the ancestors of today's 44 million Irish Americans.

Born and raised in Chicago, Mary Pat Kelly now lives in Manhattan. She received her PhD from the City University of New York..

Other books by Mary Pat Kelly include:

"Home Away from Home: The Yanks in Ireland"
"Martin Scorsese: A Journey"
"Proudly We Served : The Men of the USS Mason"
"Special Intentions"
"Martin Scorsese: The First Decade"
"Good to Go: The Rescue of Scott O'Grady, from Bosnia"

Read more about this author at her website: http://www.marypatkelly.com/