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Glasgow’s First An Gorta Mór Memorial Finally Unveiled In Emotional Ceremony Outside St Mary’s RC Church
The Celtic Star · Jul 25, 2021

Glasgow’s First An Gorta Mór Memorial Finally Unveiled In Emotional Ceremony Outside St Mary’s RC Church

Glasgow’s First An Gorta Mór Memorial Finally Unveiled In Emotional Ceremony Outside St Mary’s RC Church
Glasgow’s First An Gorta Mór Memorial Finally Unveiled In Emotional Ceremony Outside St Mary’s RC Church

Today saw Glasgow’s first An Gorta Mór memorial being unveiled almost two centuries after the first wave of Irish refugees landed in the city. The Great Hunger, sometimes referred to as “the famine”, caused the deaths of over 1 million people and caused a further million Irish men and women to flee the country...

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