The Éire Society of Boston will host  a holiday reception and talk at Boston College's John J. Burns Library on Saturday afternoon, December 6, 2-4 pm - the feast of St. Nicholas.

Members will hear a presentation by Erskine Childers on the lives of his great-grandfather—the Irish revolutionary of the same name—author of the WWI novel Riddle of the Sands, who was later executed for siding with anti-Treatyites in the Irish Civil War, and his wife, Boston-born writer and Irish nationalist Molly Childers—a portion of whose personal papers are held by Burns Library.

Mr. Childers' presentation will be preceded and followed by coffee/tea and desserts reception in the Burns Library Irish Room. "We hope that many members will join us for this renewal of an Eire Society holiday tradition, saidÉire Society President Tom Mackey. "As space is limited, please RSVP by December 3 via email to at tmackey@adrian.edu."