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Events for 16th May 2025 › Talk

7:30 pm

Vere Foster: Changing Lives for the Irish Poor with Jean Cannon & Ian Wolseley – a Barton Civic Society talk

May 16 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Cost: £4 Heritage Talk
Joseph Wright Hall, Queen St
Barton-upon-Humber, North Lincolnshire DN18 5QP

During the Great Famine of the 1840s in Ireland, Vere Foster assisted the poor, helping with the re-settlement of thousands of emigrants to North America escaping starvation and disease.  For those unable to emigrate he set his sights on improving their life chances by lifting educational standards in Irish schools.  Jean Cannon revisits this momentous […]

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