Leabharlann na Meán

Speech at a Reception on International Women’s Day 2018

‘Coming To Terms With The Great Famine – Welcoming The New Scholarship And The Renewed Interest’

The President will unveil artworks at an exhibition entitled 'Coming Home: Art and the Great Hunger'

At the exhibition’s launch at Dublin Castle, the President will thank the organisers and representatives of Quinnipiac University, which the President says is "a university which has emerged as a leading centre of understanding of An Gorta Mór."

The President has also written the preface to the exhibition's catalogue, in which he said that "An Gorta Mór was a defining moment in the history of modern Ireland and a turning point in the history of our people."

‘Of Greece and Ireland – an ancient and enduring relationship full of new possibilities’

Lecture by Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland at the University of Athens.