In the Rundel Auditorium of the Rundel Library Building is a Rochester's Rich History Series lecture titled Frederick Douglass and Ireland by Tim Madigan.

In 1845 Frederick Douglass was invited by leaders of the worldwide abolitionist movement to come to Ireland, where he spent months visiting such cities as Dublin, Cork, Waterford, and Belfast and befriending orator and political leader Daniel O'connell. During his time in Ireland, Douglass came to feel for the first time that he was truly accepted as a human being. Douglass remains a powerful figure for reconciliation in modern-day Ireland and Northern Ireland, with plaques commemorating him in Cork and Waterford, murals honoring him in Belfast, and a statue of him in Dublin.

[source: Monroe County Library website, 2016-Feb-15]