The Great Hunger

Board remembering An Gorta Mór, The Great Hunger, The Famine/Genocide (WP) with an old-fashioned plough in front.

“They buried us without shroud or coffin” is a line from an unrelated Seamus Heaney poem Requiem For The Croppies.

Replaced in 2012 by Stair Na Gaeilge.

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Copyright © 2004 Extramural Activity
text: eviction, emmigration, ardoyne art & environment project X00046

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