Irish American Writers and Artists and Union Pacific Railroad Museum co-hosted a Salon to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Trans-Continental Railroad. The event was held on June 1, 2019 in the museum’s beautiful building in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Follow the link to the Irish Echo report on the event.
left to right: Theodore Wheeler, Felicity White, Maggie Smith Hurt, Vanessa Dobles, Bob Churchill, Drucilla Wall, Adrian Koesters and Eamonn Wall
Eamonn Wall is a native of Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, Ireland. He has lived in St. Louis, Missouri, since 2000. Eamonn Wall is the author of eight collections of poetry as well as three books of cultural and literary criticism. His essays, articles, and reviews have been published in journals and newspapers in the USA, Ireland, and elsewhere. Eamonn Wall works at the University of Missouri-St. Louis where he teaches courses in Irish, Irish-American, and British Literature, directs UMSL's Irish Summer School in Galway, and serves as the director of the Irish Studies Program.
