#OTD in 1847 – Choctaw Indians collect money to donate to starving Irish Hunger victims.

23/03/2019.Reading time 6 minutes.

Moved by news of starvation in Ireland, a group of Choctaws gathered in Scullyville, Ok, to raise a relief fund. Despite their meager resources, they collected $170 and forwarded it to a U.S. famine relief organisation. The Choctaw Indians may have seen echoes of their own fate in that of the Irish. Just 16 years […]

#OTD in 1847 – Choctaw Indians collect money to donate to starving Irish Hunger victims.

23/03/2018.Reading time 6 minutes.

#OTD in 1847 – Choctaw Indians collect money to donate to starving Irish Hunger victims.

23/03/2017.Reading time 5 minutes.

1847 – Choctaw Indians collect money to donate to starving Irish Hunger victims.

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‘Kindred Spirits’ Monument, Bailic Park, Midleton, Co Cork

16/02/2016.Reading time 2 minutes.

The ‘Kindred Spirits’ Monument of nine eagle feather towering twenty feet into the air, was made by sculptor Alex Pentek. Aligned in a circle, the look is imperfect, bends and creases in one feather distinguishing it from its next metallic counterpart. The feathers stand strong, made from steel and bound together with more than 20,000 […]

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