Commemorators began 165km journey in Roscommon retracing odyssey of desperate, evicted tenants in 1847
The bailiff, portrayed by John Kelly, with walkers in period costume participate in the eviction reenactment at the National Famine Museum at Strokestown Park, Co Roscommon . Photograph: Richie StokesA plea for compassion for those fleeing famine and persecution was made outside the gates of Strokestown House in Co Roscommon on Monday as a group of walkers began a 165-kilometre journey retracing the footsteps of 1,490 local tenants forced out in 1847.
Caroilín Callery, director of the National Famine Museum founded by her father Jim, and among those doing the six-day walk, said it was important to tell the next part of the famine emigrants’ story.
The symbol of the famine trail are bronze replicas of children’s shoes displayed in the National Famine Museum, and earlier this month the Ambassador welcomed the arrival of 15 pairs which travelled by sea from Galway to Newfoundland for delivery to Grosse Île, and other Canadian locations where the Irish made new lives.
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