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Famine museum

Saturday 14 May 1994 23:02 BST
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THE first museum to commemorate Ireland's Great Famine, which killed one million people and forced a million more into exile between 1847 and 1850, was opened yesterday in County Roscommon by President Mary Robinson.

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