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Mon 05 May 2009Skibbereen commemorates victims of Great Hunger
THE START of a week of events culminating in National Famine Memorial Day in Skibbereen, Co Cork, next Sunday featured the unveiling of a plaque commemorating thousands of Irish who died while in quarantine in Quebec, Canada.
Also yesterday the Catholic bishops issued a joint statement on overseas aid in the context of the commemorations in Skibbereen.
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