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Article: Building a monument to the Famine
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- June 20, 2009
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HERITAGE & HABITAT: THIS YEAR BELATEDLY saw the introduction of a
National Famine Commemoration Day in Ireland. For its inaugural
year, the event was held in Skibbereen, Co Cork, and incorporated a
ceremony at local Abbeystrewery Cemetery, where up to 10,000 Famine
victims are buried. In conjunction with this, an overseas
commemoration event was held in Canada, writes BRIAN O'CONNELL
Both these events were the first major public deeds undertaken by
the newly formed National Famine Commemoration Committee, which was
set up by Minister Eamon O Cuiv in 2008. At the time, he said:
"There is nothing else in the history of the Irish people that can
be likened to the Great Famine, either for its ...