President officially opens an Irish-Polish Exhibition on the Great Famine

Céa 8th Bea, 2019 | 18:30
suíomh: (Dublin) Royal Irish Academy

(Dublin) Royal Irish Academy

Wednesday, 08th May, 2019

President officially opens an Irish-Polish Exhibition on the Great Famine

President Higgins opened an exhibition highlighting the life and achievements of Count Paweł Strzelecki, a Polish explorer and scientist, who volunteered to work in Ireland to assist in the Famine relief efforts. 

Strzelecki developed a new mode of assistance, feeding starving children through the schools network. He extended daily food rations to schoolchildren across the most famine-stricken western part of Ireland, while also distributing clothing and promoting basic hygiene. 

 

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