The lilting tones if the Irish Harp seemed like the perfect time to conclude my Irish holiday. But one more stop before the ferry town of Rosslare.

In New Ross there is a monument to immigration. With an eternal frame.

It sits outside the migrant museum.

The Dunbrody migrant ship stands testament to the over 1.5 million Irish who emigrated to the US to escape oppression, famine and genocide

There are two plaques at the memorial. One a poem by Thomas Moore.

And the dedication plaques opened by representatives of the US and Ireland.

It makes me think that so.many of us are migrants or children of migrants, yet now we denigrate and persecute migrants who, like our forebears, are escaping persecution, hunger and displacement.

The monument is, by its existence, a memorial to the Irish famine/genocide. The Irish still carry the scars of those times.

In my 2018 trip I visited Derry Bogside and this is a photo I took then.

Genocide continues in Palestine and we should not be silent.

From the beachside village of Rosslare there is a view across the bay to the ferry harbour. Next morning I would be crossing the Irish Sea.