Sligo Historian Joe McGowan explains Lord Palmerston's reconstruction of Sligo Harbor

An extraordinary, profound bilingual exchange between 3 master historians comparing notes and perspectives on the lives of Irish people in the years of the Great Famine.
• JOE McGowan, an exceptionally articulate balanced regional expert historian (Sligo Heritage)
• GEORGES Kavanagh, Quebec-Irish regional historian on the legacy of the Sligo immigrants who wrecked on the Gaspé
• DR GEAROID Ó hAllmhuráin, Concordia University's Johnson Chair of Quebec and Irish Stories in Montreal Quebec, writer / director of the 2019 film Lost Children of the Carricks, offering bridge translations
2015 (filmed by Peter Murphy, Seabright Productions, Nova Scotia) in production for Lost Children of the Carricks (2019, Celtic Crossings Productions)
Topics include:
• class divisions
• the Stockholm syndrome suffered by local residents
• the hobbies of the wealthy aristocracy
• the impact of summer aristocracy on the lives of local fishermen
• culture of silence and dispossession
• employment opportunities for locals created by the summer homes of visiting aristocracy from England
• similarity to the life experiences of the Acadians in Atlantic Canada