Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In May 2024, representatives from the Liverpool Irish Festival, custodians of the Liverpool Irish Famine Trail, travelled to Strokestown in May 2024 to walk the National Famine Way, carrying with them a bronze shoes sculpture bound for Liverpool.

This commemorates the 1847 journey taken by 1,490 evictees from Strokestown Estate (Co. Roscommon, Ireland). The evictees were marched 165km to Dublin, to be put on cargo ships to Liverpool and thence to Canada. It’s estimated over half those who made the journey died before they reached their destination.

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