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Presentation of Famine Memorial Prizes

11/10/2020
It was pleasing to be able to present the GIFCC’s Irish Famine Memorial Prizes as follows:- The Irish Famine Memorial History Honours Prize at Macquarie UniversityPresented to: Max BarnettFor his work in the Masters of Research. We are living in a world seemingly in constant crisis in one form or...

Commemoration 2020

11/10/2020
In a year when so much has not been possible, it was very rewarding to achieve what we thought might well have been impossible. Being 2020, the 25th anniversary of the formation of the GIFCC, it was extremely gratifying to be able to hold the 2020 Annual Commemoration and Presentation...

AGM 2019

05/10/2019

20 th ANNUAL GREAT IRISH FAMINE COMMEMORATION

29/07/2019
Sunday 25 August 2019 Due to building works at the Hyde Park Barracks the event this year will be in two parts. 1) 10.00am we gather at The Mint Building, Macquarie Street for a seminar. Entry is strictly by reservation and pre-payment of $55 for members and $65 for non-members....

2018 GIF Refugee Scholarship recipient’s Graduation

02/05/2019
First GIF Refugee Scholarship awardee, Negar Zarei, being presented with her Degree in Nursing by WSU Chancellor Peter Shergold at her graduation at Western Sydney University., on Tuesday 30th April 2019. The GIFCC is delighted that the WSU Scholarship Fund established in 2008 has come to fruition with this result....