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DIFP Update: May 2015

30 May 2015
Michael took part in a History Ireland Hedge School and Kate gave the inaugural Spring Lecture for the Global Schoolroom.

In mid-May Michael took part in a History Ireland Hedge School in the Guild Hall in Derry which was held to mark the arrival of the surrendered German U-Boat fleet into Derry in May 1945. A podcast of the Hedge School can be found on the History Ireland website.

Above Image: Joe O’Loughlin, Michael Kennedy and Tommy Graham, at the History Ireland Hedge School, Guild Hall, Derry, 16 May 2015.

Robert Power (Chairman, Global Schoolroom), Dr Kate O’Malley, Kieran Dowling (DFAT), Dr Garret Campbell (CEO, Global Schoolroom), 9 May 2015.Kate gave the inaugural Spring Lecture for the Global Schoolroom on 9 May in the Mansion House, Dublin. Secondary teachers, about to depart on volunteer work in North East India, were given a brief history on the historical connections between Ireland and India.

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