{"id":3424,"date":"2018-04-11T14:31:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T14:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=3424"},"modified":"2018-04-11T14:32:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T14:32:32","slug":"crowe-attends-launch-of-famine-potato-schools-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-attends-launch-of-famine-potato-schools-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe attends launch of Famine Potato schools initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dublin South West TD, Se\u00e1n Crowe, has welcomed the launch of the Famine Potatoes schools initiative, which is organised by the Tallaght based Committee for the Commemoration of Irish Famine Victims.<\/p>\n

The Sinn F\u00e9in TD welcomed the group\u2019s plan to distribute lumper potatoes to schools right across Ireland.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the launch in Scoil Santain, Tamhlacht, Teachta Se\u00e1n Crowe said:<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to wholeheartedly welcome and commend this schools initiative organized by the Committee for the Commemoration of Irish Victims of the Famine (CCIVF).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe lumper potato was the primary food item for Irish families in the 1840s, but it was highly susceptible to blight. When potato blight struck Ireland this staple food source was devastated.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn Gorta M\u00f3r resulted in the deaths of over one million Irish citizens from starvation and it led to the forced migration of over a million more Irish citizens. The CCIFV therefore plan to distribute lumper potatoes to schools right across Ireland as an aid to teachers and students studying the Great Hunger.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must do more to commemorate the victims of An Gorta M\u00f3r and to education our citizens on this horrific period of Irish history. I want to also again back the CCIVF\u2019s call on the Government to set a fixed day in the year for the National Famine Memorial Day and their suggestion of the second Sunday in May.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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L-R: Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, Paul Murphy TD, P\u00f3l O Meadhra (teacher), Eamon O Deagha (School Principal), Michael Blanch (CCIFV) and students of Scoil Santain<\/p>\n

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Students of Scoil Santain<\/p>\n

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L-R: Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, Eamon O Deagha (School Principal), Michael Blanch (CCIFV), Paul Murphy TD, and P\u00f3l O Meadhra (teacher).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dublin South West TD, Se\u00e1n Crowe, has welcomed the launch of the Famine Potatoes schools initiative, which is organised by the Tallaght based Committee for the Commemoration of Irish Famine Victims. The Sinn F\u00e9in TD welcomed the group\u2019s plan to distribute lumper potatoes to schools right across Ireland. Speaking at the launch in Scoil Santain, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3424"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3429,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions\/3429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}