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Education Cirriculum

Education and Debate

By Tara Dougherty
June / July 2010

May 15, 2024 by Leave a Comment

Maureen Murphy and Martin Mullin talk to Irish America about teaching American students about the Great Hunger. It has been nearly ten years since New York State released a new human rights curriculum, which would include alongside its existing subjects of the North American slave trade and the European Holocaust: the Great Irish Famine.  Dr. Maureen Murphy, a professor … [Read more...] about Education and Debate

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