WHAT’S ON AT THE MITCHELL LIBRARY DEC/JAN INSIDE: Robert Burns Celebration St Mungo Feast Day Famine in the Highlands and Ireland – display PLUS: Women, Rent Strikes and Red Clydeside – talk IMAGE: STATUE OF ROBERT BURNS IN GEORGE SQUARE The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow, G3 7DN t: 0141 287 2999 e:
[email protected] www.glasgowlife.org.uk/libraries FAMINE IN THE WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE MITCHELL CURIOUS ST MUNGO THE LEGACY HIGHLANDS AND IRELAND IN GLASGOW GETS FESTIVE FEAST DAY OF ST MUNGO HISTORY AND HERITAGE FAMINE IN THE HIGHLANDS MITCHELL CURIOUS GETS FESTIVE AND IRELAND Monday 17 and Thursday 20 December Until 29 December ] Granville Street foyer 12.30-1.00pm and Wednesday 19 A small exhibition with a selection of material December 6.30-7.00pm from Glasgow City Archives telling the story Join us for Mitchell Curious Gets Festive, of An Gorta Mor and the Highland Potato showcasing Christmas items from our Famine and the impact these catastrophic collections. events had on Glasgow. Famine ravaged large parts of Europe in the mid-1840s and millions of people died or were displaced ST MUNGO FEAST DAY over a number of years. Ireland suffered Saturday 12 January, 12noon–12.45pm particularly badly and it is thought that Granville Street foyer, Mitchell Library more than a million people were forced to Enjoy the story of St Mungo in words and emigrate - with as many as 100,000 of them song to mark the anniversary of his death arriving in Glasgow. Thousands also arrived and his feast day.