This is part of an extensive programme of activities organised by Newry, Mourne and Down District Council for the 2015 Famine Commemoration taking place 26th September in Newry. Speaking after the talk St. Clare’s Abbey teacher Clare Donnelly said, “The children thoroughly enjoyed the experience, such a real life insight into the Famine, Living history truly at work. This is the eighth year in which the Great Famine has been marked with a formal Commemoration and the first time that the Commemoration will take place in Northern Ireland.