From a recent project we worked on with the Irish Ambassador to Canada Eamonn McKee and the Irish Embassy in Ottawa.

Visitors admire a sculpture of children’s shoes at the Basilica of St John’s the Baptist in St John’s, Newfoundland upon their arrival on an Irish research ship, Irish Explorer, on May 9, 2024. They are a part of the Global Irish Famine Way project which tracked and commemorates the exodus of the Irish during the famine of the mid 1800s. The bronze shoes cast from a pair of children’s shoes found in Ireland and believed to have belong to a child who fled the Irish Famine in 1847.  Photo by Greg Locke © 2024

You can visit this project website at https://nationalfamineway.ie/