Kindred Spirits Memorial

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Kindred Spirits commemorates the 1847 donation by the Native American Choctaw People to Irish famine relief during the Great Hunger, despite the Choctaw themselves living in hardship and poverty and having recently endured the Trail of Tears. 

 

 

 

 

 

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Institution: 
Alex Pentek and Midleton town council
Official/Unofficial: 
Official
Physical Aspects: 

The sculpture consists of nine 20-foot (6.1 m) stainless steel eagle feathers arranged in a circle, no two feathers being identical, forming a bowl shape to represent a gift of a bowl of food

 

Date of Dedication: 
2015
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