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An Gorta Mór: Bishop Maginn: The Road to Derry (Part 1 of 2) derryjournal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from derryjournal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Donegal recently hosted the 2023 National Famine Commemoration and here, the chairman of Ireland’s Great Hunger Bord in the U.S., proud Buncrana native and New York resident for the past 25 years, Turlough McConnell charts the extraordinary but largely overlooked story of one local man’s heroism and compassion during The Great Hunger, Adjunct Bishop Edward Maginn. This two-part profile of Bishop Maginn was extracted from Mr McConnell’s original contribution to the book Heroes of Ireland's Great Hunger’, edited by Christine Kinealy, Jason King, and Gerard Moran (Cork and Hamden CT: Cork University Press and Quinnipiac University Press, 2021), pages 179-189. The second part will be published in the Journal next week. ....
Donegal recently hosted the 2023 National Famine Commemoration and here, the chairman of Ireland’s Great Hunger Bord in the U.S., proud Buncrana native and New York resident for the past 25 years, Turlough McConnell charts the extraordinary but largely overlooked story of one local man’s heroism and compassion during The Great Hunger, Adjunct Bishop Edward Maginn. This two-part profile of Bishop Maginn was extracted from Mr McConnell’s original contribution to the book Heroes of Ireland's Great Hunger’, edited by Christine Kinealy, Jason King, and Gerard Moran (Cork and Hamden CT: Cork University Press and Quinnipiac University Press, 2021), pages 179-189. The second part will be published in the Journal next week. ....