Speech at the opening of an exhibition about Pawel Strzelecki

09/05/2019 28 min
Speech at the opening of an exhibition about Pawel Strzelecki

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President Higgins opened an exhibition highlighting the life and achievements of Count Paweł Strzelecki, a Polish explorer and scientist, who volunteered to work in Ireland to assist in the Famine relief efforts.

Strzelecki developed a new mode of assistance, feeding starving children through the schools network. He extended daily food rations to schoolchildren across the most famine-stricken western part of Ireland, while also distributing clothing and promoting basic hygiene.

See: https://president.ie/en/diary/details/president-officially-opens-an-irish-polish-exhibition-on-the-great-famine

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