Kindred Spirits

Local nameKindred Spirits
LocationMidleton, Ireland

Kindred Spirits is a large stainless steel outdoor sculpture in Bailick Park in Midleton, County Cork, Ireland.Kindred Spirits commemorates the 1847 donation by the Native American Choctaw People to Irish famine relief during the Great Hunger, despite the Choctaw themselves living in hardship and poverty and having recently endured the Trail of Tears. While records of the exact amount of the donation vary, the figure usually given is US$170. In the U.S. coinage of the time, U.S.$170 meant 8.22 troy ounces of physical gold, or about US$14,000 in 2020 prices.The sculpture consists of nine 20-foot stainless steel eagle feathers arranged in a…

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindred_Spirits_(sculpture)

Address Bailick Road, Midleton P25 AY02, Ireland

Coordinates 51°54'22.006" N -8°10'28.938" E

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