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March 12, 2008

Photo: A somber visit to the Irish Famine Memorial

Journal photo/ Bob Thayer
Joe McClintock, Jr., part of an 18-member delegation of Irish dignitaries visiting Rhode Island, looks at the Irish Famine Memorial in Providence. McClintock says he was moved by the statue, symbolic of the Irish people's suffering during the famine from 1845 to 1851. The famine, caused by failure of the potato crop, decimated the nation.

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