Museum of Newport Irish History lecture explores Irish immigrant experience Daily News staff The Museum of Newport Irish History announces the fifth talk in its 19th Annual Michael F. Crowley Lecture Series, to be presented “virtually” on Wednesday, April 21 at 6 p.m. via Zoom. Janet Nolan, history professor emerita and noted author, will present an illustrated talk entitled, “When Harry Met Mary Ann: An Irish Family in an American City,” which explores her own family’s Irish immigrant experience. The story Nolan will share is both a micro and a macro history of one Irish-American family, the Donovan-Nolans, and one New England industrial city, Lynn, Massachusetts. The story is also representative of a far larger story, the story of Irish emigrants to America and the steep slope they climbed into the American middle class, one that is echoed in millions of Irish-American families throughout the United States.