Ean Emigration Curriculum - short version

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A version of Ean's emigration curriculum as presented at the organisation's 2007 seminar.

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“Peregrinari! Peregrinari! The Irish have always been wanderers. It is the curse and genius of our people.”

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Cartoon published in Punch, 15 July 1848.

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Erin - In forty years I have lost, through the operation of no natural law, more than Three Millions of my Sons and Daughters, and they, the Young and the Strong, leaving behind the Old and the Infirm to weep and to die. Where is this to end? Weekly Freeman, 1881. [National Library of Ireland]

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James Brennan, 1875 Crawford Municipal Gallery

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Joseph Wilson, 1930

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Sean Keating, 1936 Crawford Municipal Art Gallery

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Patrick Hennessey 1943 Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art

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Kate Horgan, late 1980s

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Memorialising the Ulster Scots who went to America during the 18th-century migrations. This statue is located near the harbour in Larne, County Antrim.

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DUBLIN TORONTO

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NATIONAL FAMINE MEMORIAL AT MURRISK “ARRIVAL” AT UN IN NEW YORK

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The plaque on the ground reads, “This sculpture is dedicated by Bill Durkan to the memory of the young men and women who emigrated from Kiltimagh, Bohola and the surrounding areas during the 1950s.

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Erskine Nicol, 1871 National Gallery of Scotland

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Jack B. Yeats, 1905 Private Collection

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14-year old Annie Moore at Cobh; she left in 1892 and became the first immigrant to arrive at Ellis Island.

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Erskine Nicol, 1864 The Tate Gallery Ballinasloe emigrants waiting for the train

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Erected on the 150th anniversary of 1847