‘Coming Home’ is the name of a special, and I would say, a poignant exhibition which has been running all summer in the Art Centre in Skibbereen town.  It aims to commemorate and indeed give value and respect to all the many Irish who died during one of the biggest calamities that hit this land.  […]

COMING HOME

Im reposting this post from 2018.

I attended a Cork histories conference in UCC yesterday and a new acquaintance started to talk about this particular exhibition . And this morning, by chance, WordPress brought it up from my archive.  

The exhibition  featured the world’s largest collection of Great Irish Famine-related art, sourced from Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University.