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  • November 2012

  • Art & Literary Winners accounced 2012

    Art & Literary Winners accounced 2012

    20 November, 2012

    The Winners of the inaugural Hugh O’Flaherty Art & Literary Competitions 2012 were announced on Friday Nov 9th at the Official Opening of the Hugh O'Flaherty Memorial Exhibition in Killarney Library. The prizes were presented by the Mayor of Killarney, Cllr. Sean O’Grady.

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  • 2012 Memorial Weekend a Huge Success

    2012 Memorial Weekend a Huge Success

    20 November, 2012

    Every year since the Memorial Weekend was first established in 2008, the highlight of the Hugh O'Flaherty Memorial Weekend is the presentation of the Hugh O'Flaherty International Humanitarian Award, honouring individuals or organisations who have displayed the same ideals and principals of the Monsignor, who during WW2, together with his colleagues in the Rome Escape Line, saved over 6,500 people from the clutches of the Nazis who had occupied Rome at the time. This year the occasion brought together, for the first time at the event, the heads of both Church and State, when An Taoiseach Enda Kenny attended the event together with the newly appointed Papal Nuncio for Ireland, Archbishop Charles John Brown and was also joined by the British Ambassador Dominick Chilcott. This year's deserved winner was Sr. Agnes Hunt who was nominated by the Irish Council for Prisoners Overseas and was chosen due to her commitment nd empathy towards Irish Prisoners Overseas and their families. Sr. Agnes was the first woman to be appointed to a chaplaincy in a male prison in the UK, when she began a placement at HMP Wormwood Scrubs, where she remained for 16 years. During her time she formed close ties with many of the prisoners and their families.

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  • Hugh O'Flaherty Memorial Society says "Thank YOu"

    20 November, 2012

    After the most successful Hugh O’Flaherty Memorial Weekend to date, the Memorial Committee would like to thank the following Organisations and Individuals for their help in organising, promoting and actioning the Memorial Weekend Programme with sincere apologies for any unintended omissions.

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