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By Michael Quinlin, Contributor
After building a $1 million memorial park last year to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Irish Famine, Boston’s Irish community is turning its attention toward people suffering from contemporary famines throughout the world.
A proposed Irish Famine Institute that blends social activism and academic research is currently in the planning stages in Boston. Organizers want to create a permanent endowment to send food, medicine and supplies directly to African and Asian countries chronically experiencing famine and pestilence. The Institute also plans to support field research that will forecast and prevent famines in the future, and to educate the public about the hunger and suffering still occurring in the world.
It s crazy to think it s been just about a year since everything in Missoula shut down thanks to COVID - I had almost forgotten that was right around St. Patrick s Day that everything closed, which meant that all the parties and events that were planned were pretty much entirely cancelled.
Now we re a year into this pandemic, and things are looking better - case numbers in Montana are down, more and more people are getting fully vaccinated every day, and we re at a point where we can conceivably start getting smaller events together in person. We ve heard about a couple of different parties that bars are holding (including one at Draught Works Brewery), but if you re more inclined to stay home for another year and celebrate at home, here s something for you.
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A key figure in the Laois for Choice movement in the 8th Amendment Referendum in 2018, Gearóidín McEvoy is a PhD candidate at the School of Law and Government in DCU. She also lectures in DCU.
For her PhD Gearoídín s research focuses on the right to a fair trial under international human rights law for minority language speakers and examines ways in which speakers of regional or minority languages access their right to a fair trial. The focus is on four case study language groups; Irish speakers and Irish Sign Language speakers in Ireland and Swedish and Sámi (Saami) speakers in Finland.
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