Coming Home

The world’s largest collection of Great Hunger-related art. Opening at Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin in Derry on January 18th, until the 17th of March.
Free admission.

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Here's all the details you need if you want to view the exhibition in @culturlanndoire.
Visiting the exhibition is free of charge, as are many of the events hosted over the next month.
Visit https://t.co/BD9rNkZ1Dl for more information.

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Some progress of our awesome mural by @ominous_omin in partnership with @ComingHome_IGHM @culturlanndoire #streetart #cominghome

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Off they go... Thank you to everyone who took part in this immense journey with us over the last twelve months #ComingHome #GoingHome

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Over 8,000 people have viewed the collection. Now in final week, you can visit @culturlanndoire until this Saturday 16 March #ComingHome

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#Black47 was the highest grossing Irish film of the year in Ireland after taking in more than €1.5 million at the domestic box office.
@culturlanndoire are hosting a free showing on March 14th at 20.00 - come along and see the story of the Great Hunger

https://t.co/bdG6yRFyfl

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'The reusable coffin, colloquially known as a “trap” or “sliding” coffin, was fitted with a hinged bottom that swung open like a trapdoor when released' https://t.co/MGKURZsIIs

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When we look back on the Irish Famine, we must remember that hunger is still a problem for 821 million people around the world today.
Brian Maguire and @Concern will be co-hosting an event on March 8th discussing the modern interaction between art and famine.

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Lots of young people at @culturlanndoire this week learning about the Famine through #ComingHome // Don't miss out! Catch the collection before it returns to the US in mid-March // Programme: https://t.co/u3Z0DtpFMB

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Our event ‘Hunger today: artist Brian Maguire in South Sudan’ takes place at @culturlanndoire, #Derry, on 8th March at 7pm as part of @ComingHome_IGHM.

As well as showing his trip portraits, @Concern's @ChrisPain5 will also discuss the devastating impact of #hunger in the world.

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Trio Festivale performs on Sat at @culturlanndoire as part of @walledcitymusic. Concert includes Ian Wilson’s "The Great Hunger" which takes as its starting point the celebrated epic poem by Patrick Kavanagh, complementing "Coming Home: Art and the Great Hunger" @ComingHome_IGHM

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Just two weeks left to see #ComingHome in Derry https://t.co/TThqW2x2kt

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People fled in desperation...

Ireland’s Great Hunger & The Irish Diaspora (Narrated by Gabriel Byrne)

// 1 March 20.00pm // @culturlanndoire

https://t.co/nihzLCGtcp

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Thanks for inviting me to speak on the Great #Famine and #Inishowen Workhouse yesterday. The exhibition @ComingHome_IGHM Coming Home: Art and the Great Hunger at the @culturlanndoire is a must see, harrowing, brilliant art and sculptures.

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An immersive trip back in time- come along and listen to the stories of the famine, Feb 26-March 1. Don't miss out! Full programme here: https://t.co/nzDCh3ZNRy

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'In the hundred or so years before the famine, the thing that struck most visitors to Ireland was the poverty of the people'

'Radharc – When Ireland Starved'

20.00pm

@culturlanndoire

https://t.co/BZEmogwd1K

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'In what ways do such exhibitions seek to supplement historical understanding when direct witness accounts are less evident?' // 'Speaking Nearby', FREE lecture Dr Niamh Ann Kelly @culturlanndoire // Wed 27 Feb // 12.00pm

Visit: https://t.co/ww1z9n1Drn #ComingHome

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Tomorrow: @bbcradioulster Declan Forde explores #ComingHome exhibition with Ryan Mahoney,@IGHMatQU, musician Mick Moloney and @Quinnipiac Professor Christine Kinealy || 6.30pm

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Our "Coming Home: Art & The Great Hunger" talks series continues this afternoon at 12pm with a talk by Emily Mark-Fitzgerald on "Fact and Fantasy: Social Realism and Nineteenth-Century Famine Depiction."

@culturlanndoire | 12pm | All welcome. Free entry | @ComingHome_IGHM

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What did it mean to ‘see’ Irish famine and poverty in the 19th century? // FREE talk @emilymfg @culturlanndoire today 12.00pm // https://t.co/ww1z9n1Drn

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This evening at 7.30pm as part of @niscifest : A free talk by Dr. Alan Fernihough, lecturer in economics at Queen’s University, Belfast: "Was The Great Irish Famine An Ecological Disaster?"

An Croí, @culturlanndoire
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Join @emilymfg this Thurs 21 Feb at @culturlanndoire Irish poverty, eviction, & famine from the 1840s-1880s, exploring interrelationship between painting, photography, illustrated newspapers, and magic lanterns. Erskine Nicol, by Vincent Brooks, after John Ballantyne @NPG