Search for diaspora speaker:Lorraine Higgins (KildareStreet.com)

Seanad: Statistics (Heritage Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (16 Oct 2013): Lorraine Higgins: ...event, Back to our Past, will take place this Friday in the RDS. The wonderful success of The Gathering, which led to thousands of additional people visiting these shores, has created a new interest among the diaspora in developing further links with this country, particularly in individual counties. Is there a better way of doing that than by acquiring family information? The 100-year...
Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2012): Lorraine Higgins: ...led to 1 million people dying prematurely from starvation and disease and 1 million more emigrating. The event of which I speak is An Gorta MÃ³r, the Famine. Now we are seeking to summon the Irish diaspora from all around the globe to these shores to celebrate The Gathering in 2013, yet there has been no formal announcement of a date or venue for the national day of commemoration of the...

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