Ciaran Tierney tweets:
FAILTE … to mark #WorldRefugeeDay on Wednesday, @galwayantiRN are asking as many people as possible to gather at #Salthill beach and spell out ‘Fàilte’ for a spectacular aerial photo (Opposite Coco Cafe, 6.30pm!)
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On the occasion of World Refugee Day…
Tom Moylan writes:
172 years ago there was a great famine in Ireland. This period of mass starvation, disease and emigration led to one million dying and one million more desperately boarding ships – often overcrowded, poorly maintained, and badly provisioned vessels, known as coffin ships – in the hope of escaping their dire situation and starting new lives.
The experience has made its way into our folklore, our culture, almost embedded itself into our very DNA.
When the Irish got where they were going (if they had survived the trip) they were welcomed with suspicion and hostility. In the USA and the UK they were considered a violent backwards culture that was incompatible with American and British society
There were a few who helped and made the small impact that they could, despite intense political pressure not to do so. These people are remembered by the Irish to this day – the Quakers, the Choctaw Native Americans, a few more.
Just saying. #WorldRefugeeDay
Fight!
From the Ant-Racism Network Ireland:
Yesterday another mass deportation to Nigeria took place after many Direct Provision centres were raided by the GNIB [Garda National Immigration Bureau] early in the morning. We have been informed that people including women and children were taken in Carrick-on-Suir, Cork and Portlaoise.
Out of desperation, a woman called Adekemi tried to harm herself with a knife while she was being taken from her room….
Asylum-Seeker Boat Carrying 200 Capsizes Off Australia (AFP)