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Strokestown Famine Diaspora welcomed back 'home' for The Gathering 2013

Project information and contact with ancestors of Ireland’s famine from Strokestown Park House, Roscommon

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Nearly all of the Famine/Great Hunger emigrants left an Ireland that would remain a single political entity for another 170 years, and a great many of these emigrants were fluent i dteanga na nGael. The government of tody's Irish state that is arranging the 2013 Gatherings apply the term "Ireland" only to the part of the homeland over which they have jurdiction, not to Ireland's NE region, and few members of that Partitionist admisintration are seldom, if ever, heard ag labhairt Gaeilge. I'd greatly appreciate it if someone would be so kind as to inform me if there is a place in the Gatherings for me, a London-born U.S. citizen whose cultural heritage applies to the 'whole Irish nation and all its parts', Éireannach atá an-bródúil as an nGaeilge mheasartha maith atá aige freisin.
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