Great Hunger Commemoration Announced
Posted in Roundabout on Mar 1st, 2012
The official Famine (Great Hunger 1845-50) Commemoration will take place in Boston in May. It will coincide with the commemoration in Drogheda, Co. Louth, which was the second largest port of departure for those leaving Ireland during the famine, with Boston receiving hundered of thousands of immigrants, arriving in coffin ships.
