Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum

[postulater]

29. When you go, you might walk along the river in downtown Dublin to see the famine statues there.

A couple years ago on Easter Sunday morning, I was in Dublin and woke early to walk through the downtown. As I turned the corner onto O'Connell Street I saw the Post Office blocked off with police fences. There were military people with machine guns guarding the street corners.

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/nangar16/5660406114/]Machine guns on the streets of Dublin[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/nangar16/]talisker![/url], on Flickr

It was the 95th anniversary of the Easter Rising and a ceremony was being rehearsed on the Post Office steps.

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/nangar16/5659834565/]95th anniversary of the Easter Rising GPO[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/nangar16/]talisker![/url], on Flickr

Along the river a couple blocks away are the statues commemorating the Great Starvation.

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/nangar16/5660410308/]Famine statues by the Customs House[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/nangar16/]talisker![/url], on Flickr


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The reminder of what happened to my ancestors links me to every other person who is or has been victimized by another group for immoral purposes and it strengthens my support for others who may now or in the future be subject to the same type of crimes.