Whilst the Irish National Famine Commemoration Committee sponsored an important range of high-profile projects – including the National Famine Memorial in Co. Mayo (1997) and a fund for ...

A heartbreaking Irish famine story of death and despair in a small west of Ireland village. A group of 600 Irish starving during the Great Hunger set out to Doolough, in County Mayo. to find food.

This year's National Famine Commemoration will take place in Kilmallock, Co. Limerick and was announced by Patrick O’Donovan, Minister for Arts, Culture, Communications, Media and Sport, and ...

The Irish government designated May 17, 2009 as the first National Famine Memorial Day. On that day, Irish peopl... CHRISTINE KINEALY @IrishCentral. Jul 23, 2009.

The Famine Memorial marks the end of the National Famine Way, a 165-kilometer trail retracing the path of thousands who walked from Roscommon to Dublin in 1847. Life-sized bronze sculptures of ...

The National Famine Memorial Day was first organised in 2008 to mark the great famine, known as An Gorta Mór (the Great Hunger). Between 1845 and 1850.

The Famine Memorial marks the end of the National Famine Way, a 165-kilometer trail retracing the path of thousands who walked from Roscommon to Dublin in 1847. Life-sized bronze sculptures of ...

T he Famine Memorial marks the end of the National Famine Way, a 165-kilometer trail retracing the path of thousands who walked from Roscommon to Dublin in 1847. Life-sized bronze sculptures of ...