Briana Gibson Reeves

Made by God

February 5, 2022 IA Newsletter

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The Irish Repertory Theatre presents Made by God in the W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre February 11, 2022 - March 20, 2022 By Ciara Ní Chuirc Directed by Olivia Songer With Ciaran Byrne, McKenna Quigley Harrington, Erica Hernandez, Daniel Marconi, and Briana Gibson Reeves Small town, Ireland,1984; Ann, a fifteen-year-old girl, is found dead with her newborn baby in Our … [Read more...] about Made by God

March 23, 1847

On this day in 1847, the Choctaw Native American tribe collected money to help starving victims of the Irish potato famine. Several years before, in 1831, President Andrew Jackson seized Choctaw territory in what is now southeastern Mississippi and parts of Alabama, forcing the Choctaw to travel five hundred miles along the “Trail of Tears” to reserved Indian Territory in Oklahoma. The Choctaw people sympathized with Ireland’s forced submission to Britain, and with the starvation and disease that plagued them. A group of Choctaws gathered in Scullyville, Oklahoma and raised $170, which they then forwarded to a U.S. famine relief organization. Though U.S. contribution in aid to Ireland totaled in the millions, the Choctaw donation was by far the most generous.

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