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Date Posted: 13:15:59 09/01/02 Sun
Author: Moderator
Subject: Patrons List et al

NORTH-WEST GREAT HUNGER MEMORIALS COMMITTEE,

c/o Top Office, AOH Hall, 23 Foyle Street, Derry City BT48 6AL

MAJOR PATRONS (Short-list)

Séamus Heaney, poet, Nobel laureate; Stephen Rea, stage and film actor; Brian Friel, playwright; Senator Tom Hayden, CA; Senator Mark K. King (W. Indies) – Authors; Christine Kinealy - Seamus Deane - Colm Fox – Fionnbarra Ó Dochartaigh, & Don Mullan (Human Rights advocate); Robert Ballagh, Dublin, Fellow of the World Academy of Arts & Science; Liam Ó Rónáin, Co. Donegal Librarian; Ivan Cooper, former Minister for Community Relations (1974 Executive); (The Late) James R. Guy, Former Unionist Mayor of L’Derry; Tony Carlin, Former SDLP Mayor of Derry; The Waterside Playhouse et al.

Clergy – Bishop Dr. James Mehaffey (Cof I, Derry & Raphoe- Retired 2002); Bishop Dr. Seamus Hegarty (R.C. Derry); Bishop Dr. M.H.G. Mayers (Anglican, Sligo-Cavan); Bishop Dr. C. Jones (R.C., Sligo); The Venerable D.S. McLean, (C of I, Archdeacon of Derry); Rev. Dr. Joseph Fell (Clerk of the Derry & Strabane Presbytery); Rev. F.L. Munce (L’Derry Methodist Mission); Rev. Rosemary Logue, Rector of St. Augustine Church, Derry; Rev. Robert Doherty, Archdiocese of Boston, Executive members of the Y.M.C.A.


Educationalists – James Mullin, Irish Famine Curriculum Committee & Education Fund. Inc., U.S.A.; Dr. J.L. Murphy, Devry Institute of Technology, Assoc. Prof. Of Humanities, Long Beach, California; Sr. C. Hegarty, Principal, Thornhill; Sr. B. Hanna, Principal, Nazareth House Primary; Ms. Catherine Boyle, Carnhill High; Ms. J.McDermott, Trench Road Primary; Principal & Staff, St. Mary’s College, Creggan; et al.

Media – Mr. Frank Galligan, Presenter, Radio Foyle; Mr. Paul Boyle, Channel 9 TV; Eamonn Friel, songwriter and radio D.J.; Mr. Seamus Finn, editor, Sligo Champion; et al

Ancient Order of Hibernians of America – Frank O’Brien, (Website creator)Troy, NY; Jim Dixon, President, Phoenix, Arizona; Carol Calderone (LAOH), Lawrence, MA; Tom Gormley, Methuen, MA; Jack Laney, Salem, NH; Bill Young, Belmar, State V-Pres., NJ; Padraic & Brian Sloan, Lincroft, NJ; Patrick Gibbons, Orwigsburg, PA; Jack Sullivan, Monmouth County Div. President & John E. Ward Middletown, State V-Pres. NJ; Jimmy Walsh, Hamilton, NJ; Thomas F. Moran, PhilaD, PA; Pat Hagen, Forked River, President, NJ; Anthony P. Dowd, Colts Neck & Patrick Torphy, NJ; Patrick Cahill, California State President; Tommy Dunn, President, Virginia State Board; Bill Reilly, Staten Island, NY, County President; Patrick Rooney, Director District 5, Queens County, & NY President; Liam M. McNabb, NY State Board Political Education Committee; Charles F. McLean Jr., NY State District Director; Jerry O’Keefe, CA, National Director; Jeremiah P. Quill, NY, past Orange Counnty President; Michael T. Coleman, Columbus, Ohio; John J. Meehan, Jr., Quincy, MA, National Treasurer; Neil McGuinness, PhilaD. PA, Finance Secretary, Division 39;

AOH – SCOTLAND
Thomas Patton (Motherwell) & T. McAuley (Falkirk)



ADDITIONAL NOTES:

1. Derry City Council has donated the site for the Northwest An Ghorta Mhor Memorial. It will stand on a spot where the coffin-ships departed. Significantly, this part of the dockside was chosen recently as the berth for visiting luxury cruise liners.

2. Sponsors include Derry City Council, Donegal County Council and Strabane Urban Council.

3. An open competition will invite designs from Irish sculptors, on both sides of the border.

4. The selection panel for the final choice of public work will include the Arts Council and the major sponsors, which could include the AOH of America, or its appointees. The Memorials Committee’s own choice favors realistic, rather than abstract art forms e.g. Briget O’Donnel and children as depicted by the London Illustrated News (1848).

5. The Memorials Committee’s chief executives, serving since its creation in 1995, include:

Daniel Ayling (Chairman) Secretary of the Derry #1 Div.
Tony Carlin, (Treasurer) former SDLP Mayor Of Derry
George O’Doherty (Hon. Sec) author & historian
Joe McCloskey (Trustee) Former Derry Div. V-Pres.
Mary Ellen O’Doherty, one of the last surviving widows of a War for Independence (1916-23) veteran.

6. A Pilot Scheme has introduced the US-created Great Hunger Curriculum into 350 colleges and schools, 30 of which will be Gaelic speaking institutions. Translation is currently in the hands of the relevant department of the Dublin Government.

7. The final part of the proposed program will be a musical commemoration, which will be captured on video and reproduced as a CD for pupils and other interested parties. An experienced composer and schoolteacher from Portadown are spearheading this project.

If you require any additional information please do not hesitate to contact our central office by snail mail, or via e-mail –
george.odoherty@ntlworld.com

NEW PATRONS, ESEPCIALLY FROM THE ‘SHOW-BIZ’ WORLD ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO MAKE CONTACT. TRACKING DOWN ADDRESSES HAS BEEN VERY DIFFICULT – ANY IDEAS OUT THERE ????

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