Professor Tom Devine, director of the Scottish Centre of Diaspora Studies at Edinburgh University, welcomed plans for a planned monument in Glasgow to commemerate the 100,000 who fled to the city to escape starvation in Ireland in the 1840s. But he warned that it must not be "founded on comforting myth and unproven beliefs".
Far from highlighting Glasgow's generosity, almost 50,000 immigrants were sent back to Ireland.
Far from highlighting Glasgow's generosity, almost 50,000 immigrants were sent back to Ireland.
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