the Great Hunger
An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar speaking at the National Famine Commemoration, Stephen St. Car Park, Sligo.
An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar speaking at the National Famine Commemoration, Stephen St. Car Park, Sligo. By Irish America Staff
The
2019 International Commemoration of the Great Irish Famine will take place in Phoenix, Arizona, on Sunday, November 3.
Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and Chair of the National Famine Commemoration Committee, Josepha Madigan T.D., made the announcement in July.
“This year’s commemoration represents an opportunity to not only recognize the work of the Irish Cultural Center and McClelland Library in Phoenix itself, but to honor the memory of those who left Ireland during the Famine itself, the subsequent years of emigration which saw many Famine Irish and their descendants make an enormous contribution to the western U.S., and the