In Boston, President Higgins delivered a significant speech on the Irish Famine.
Speaking in Boston’s Fanueil Hall, the landmark meeting place for American colonists who fought for US independence from Britain, the President outlined the complex legacy of the famine, and decried the failure of the world community to stamp out hunger.
You can read the President's speech here.
Some of the President's later key speeches on the Gorta Mór include:
- Speech at the opening of the “Coming Home: Art and the Great Hunger” exhibition (2018)
- Unveiling of 'Footsteps' (2017)
- 'The economic debate: from the Great Famine to Today' (2017)
- Remarks to representatives of the Choctaw nation (2017)
- Remarks marking UN Day for the Eradication of Poverty (2016)
- 'Recalling, Remembering and Learning from the Great Famine' (2016)
- ‘Feeding the World in 2050′ (2013)
- Remarks at Hunger-Nutrition-Climate Justice Conference (2013)
- Remarks at the Famine Museum (2013)