Contribution by Donal O’Kelly at the Famine Walk 2024
‘On Thursday I heard Palestinian writer Adania Shibli, banned from receiving her prize at Frankfurt Book Fair, talk about how her parents kept silent about what they endured in the Nakba of 1948. It took her thirty years to realise they couldn’t talk about it. As humans we find it hard to talk about the…Continue reading Contribution by Donal O’Kelly at the Famine Walk 2024
Famine Walk 2024: Speech by the Walk Leader Faten Sourani
Saturday, May 18th, 2024 Famine Walk 2024: Speech by Faten Sourani ‘Friends, supporters, and kind people who have come all the way here today to commemorate, learn, and act. I feel deeply honored to be among you.
Famine Walk 2024
The Doolough Famine Walk will take place on Saturday, May 18th 2024. Once again, this year, walkers will gather in Louisburgh for conversation, talks and music before being ferried by bus to the start of the walk. Retracing the steps of several hundred people who made this journey in search of food during An Gorta Mór,…Continue reading Famine Walk 2024
Date for Your Diary
Afri Doolough Famine Walk will take place on Saturday, May 18th, 2024. Please check back closer to the date for further details. #afrifaminewalk #dooloughfaminewalk
Féile na Beatha Ceatharlach – Carlow’s Spring ‘Festival of Living’
Carlow’s Spring festival of living takes place on March 19th this year, with a range of compelling events throughout the day. Féile na Beatha has grown out of the Famine Walk which has taken place from South East Technological University to the nearby Famine Graveyard for more than a decade.
Date for your diary
Féile na Beatha Ceatharlach/Carlow’s Spring ‘Festival of Living’. Please join us for a day of interactive events including a Workshop, Famine Walk, and Solidarity Talk, interwoven with Poetry, Music and Musings, on Tuesday March 19th 2024. The festival is organised in partnership with South East Technological University and Carlow College.
Reflections from Féile Bríde 2024
Afri’s annual Féile Bride Peace Conference entitled ‘The Light of Peace amidst the Clouds of War’, organised in partnership with the Brigidines and Cairde Bríde, took place on Saturday, February 10th, 2024 in the beautiful Solas Bhríde Centre, Kildare town.
Sowing Seeds of Peace: a GCE Resource on Hunger as a Consequence of War
This resource is for post primary school teachers who wish to facilitate understanding of the interconnection between war and hunger. It will support teachers to explore critical topics such as the global arms trade, global hunger, and peace, through participatory and active learning methodologies which will be engaging and emotive for students.
Féile Bríde 2024
Afri’s annual Féile Bride Peace Conference entitled ‘The Light of Peace amidst the Clouds of War’, organised in partnership with the Brigidines and Cairde Bríde, will take place on Saturday, February 10th, 2024 in the beautiful Solas Bhríde Centre, Kildare town.
Hedge School 2023
Join us on Wednesday, November 15th from 10am to 4pm for this year’s Hedge School organised in partnership with third-year students from the Community Development and Youth Work course in TU Dublin – Blanchardstown.