Yesterday
Kildare Street, Dublin 2.
Ciara Blanch (above) outside the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Skills campaigning for a specific day to mark the irish Famine..
Ciara’s father Michael Blanch *top second right( is chairman of the Irish Famine Community, which is lobbying to have a National Famine Memorial Day “to remember the victims and emigrants of An Gorta Mór”.
Irish Famine Community (Facebook)
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also the department of arts heritage & gaeltacht (or whatever they’re calling it now)
Yeah, but no one cares about them and they only take up valuable DJEI office space.
Their banner is very confusing
NFMD, man! EN EFF EMM DEE!
I had to think about it before I worked it out, which is not a great “sign”.
It minimal because they might need to use other side for winning streak.
What sort of oddball cares about this? It’s history and what you do to ‘remember” and event that happened a century before your birth is of no consequence.
Lots of people feel the need to commemorate many things that happened before they were born (1916, World War II, etc).
The famine was the seminal event in Irish history – 160 years later and the population of the island has still not recovered to pre-Famine levels (the population of Ireland used to be greater than that of the Benelux countries combined).
Are you trolling or stupid? It’s hard to tell with comment sections.
How many potatoes does it take to kill an Irishman?
mashed or fried?
none.
(I like that joke, you monster).
Aha… :)
What about a day commemorating the butter mountain and how it eventually became ghee?
Too soon.
Heh.
Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. Skills are with Department of Education and Skills. The clue is in the name.
You’d think, at least for the visuals, that he’d at least get more than his immediate family out
It feels like the plot of an offbeat novel told through the eyes of a ten year old girl who is torn between trying to be fit in and having to go to protests with her father.
*saves new doc containing one line to the ‘Possible Novels’ folder
those poor children, should they not be in school?
The school was eaten in black 47…
Or at least swimmin in de canal.
Not to discount this as an unworthy cause (with bad bannering) – but there are memorial events quite regularly for An Gorta Mór, especially out West. Having one day of remembrance is not always kind to the various arts and committees scattered around the country. Also….the chuggers would only pounce on this ‘Day’ and demand it be a fasting one or something which would be really crass.
We might get a Famine Celebration chocolate bar out of it though.