Tuesday evening saw the Launch of the Famine Exhibition in the Tholsel by the Mayor, Councillor Kevin Callan. This excellent exhibition, curated by Mr. Brian Walsh of Louth County Museum, highlights the impact that the Great Famine had at both a local and national level through a series of 32 panels. The exhibition underlines the importance of the potato in the national diet and how the blight had such a devastating effect on the island of Ireland.
Those present at the exhibition launch were also treated to an outstanding performance by students of the County Louth VEC Adult Education Centre entitled "Leaving from the Steam Packet Quay - Drogheda 1847". The performance provided a look back in time at our own Drogheda Docks during the worst year of the Irish Famine in story, poetry and pictures.
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