Ambassador Mulhall’s Welcome for the Great Famine Voices Roadshow

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Ambassador Mulhall also gave an address at the Great Famine Voices Roadshow Launch in the Embassy of Ireland about The Legacy of the Great Hunger in Irish-America

 

Jason King, Caroilin Callery, Ambassador Daniel Mulhall

Ambassador Daniel Mulhall’s Address to Great Famine Voices Roadshow
in Embassy of Ireland, Washington DC

Deputy Head of Mission Michael Lonergan also welcomed the Great Famine Voices Roadshow to the Embassy of Ireland in Washington DC and offered his reflections on the Great Famine’s legacy.

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Deputy Head of Mission Michael Lonergan provides an overview of the Irish community in Washington DC.

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Professor Tyler Anbinder from George Washington University spoke at the Great Famine Voices Roadshow Launch in the Embassy of Ireland about his Moving Beyond Rags to Riches Famine Irish Digital Project.

Professor Timothy Meaghre from Catholic University of America lectured at the Great Famine Voices Roadshow in the Irish Embassy about the Famine Irish in the United States and his own family ancestry.

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Caroilin Callery, Director of the Irish Heritage Trust and National Famine Museum at Strokestown Park House.

 

Julie Michelle Wilson, Miss Ireland USA, who is descended from American Vice President John Caldwell Calhoun and John Caldwell Bloomfield, founder of Belleek Pottery from a Famine relief project in County Fermanagh in 1849, shared her family memories and stories with the Great Famine Voices Roadshow.

Keith Carney recalled the eviction and forced emigration of his ancestors from Cork on board the Avon, one of the worst of the “coffin ships” in 1847 at the Great Famine Voices Roadshow.
Dominic Vera signed his family memories and ancestral stories at the Great Famine Voices Roadshow in Washington.

Great Famine Voices Roadshow Washington DC Gallery