Professor LeAnne Howe on Singing, Still performance about Choctaw gift of Irish Famine relief in 1847
Marita Conlon-McKenna discusses her new digital story about Daniel Tighe and Strokestown’s Missing 1,490 Emigrants
Day 5 Longwood-Maynooth c.27km. Cathal Póirtéir speaking in Gaelic on Irish Famine Pot in Enfield, County Meath
Day 6 Maynooth – Dublin c. 27km. Famine Way Walkers Re-enact the arrival of the 1,490 at Spencer Dock, Dublin (2017)
Day 3 Abbeyshrule-Mullingar c.27km. Prof. Christine Kinealy (of Quinnipiac University) in Mullingar Famine burial ground
Day 4 Mullingar – Longwood c. 30km. Cathal Poirteir on the impact of the Great Hunger on Irish folklore, song, and the Gaelic language
