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A commemoration of Irish Famine Migrants who arrived in Toronto.
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Honouring selfless Canadians who came to aid of Irish Famine Migrants
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Leadership
Éarlamh | Patron
Her Excellency Catherine Connolly
Uachtarán na hÉireann | President of Ireland
Leadership
Mark Purdy
Chair
Robert G. Kearns
Founder & Chair Emeritus
Eileen Costello
Vice Chair
William B. Peat
Executive Director
Board Members
T. Daniel Burns*
Chair, Ad Hoc Corleck Operations Group
Barry Columb
Diana Conconi
Vice-Chair, Centennial College Board of Governors
Chair, Communications and Marketing Committee
Helen Downes
Member, Fundraising Committee
Alan Duffy
President, Ontario Regiment Museum | Founder, the Duffy Heritage Foundation
Member, History Programming Committee
Mark Duffy
CEO, OnePosting and Head of North American Operations, Accelerated Payments
Joshua Dyer
Member, Contemporary Arts & Cultural Programming Committee | Communications and Marketing Committee
Kevin Flynn
Principal, Flynn Strategic Relations
Member, Ad Hoc Corleck Operations Group
Claire Lehan
Partner, McCarthy Tétrault LLP
Chair, Governance and Compliance Committee and Member | Corleck Construction Committee
Cathy Logue
Managing Director, Stanton Chase | Global Practice Leader
Treasurer | Chair, Finance Committee
Constance O'Brien
Chair, Network Ireland Committee | Member, Contemporary Arts & Cultural Programming Committee
Cheryl Shindruk
Executive Vice President, Geranium
Chair, Contemporary Arts & Cultural Programming Committee | Member, Corleck Construction Committee and Fundraising Committee
Mike Williams
Special Advisor to the President, Environics Analytics
Member, Ad Hoc Corleck Operations Group
*Founding Director
Honorary Directors
Norma Smurfit
Chair & Founder, The Famine Commemoration Fund, Dublin
General (Ret'd) John de Chastelain
Former Head of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning, Northern Ireland
Jonathan M. Kearns
Partner, Kearns Mancini Architects
Staff
Beatriz Lôbo Campos
Programming Manager
Marinus Burden
Events Director
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