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Taken during a visit in early 2026 to the Doolough Valley Famine Memorial, during filming for an upcoming exhibit on the Choctaw-Irish relationship at the Choctaw Capitol Museum.
View of Alex Pentek’s ‘Kindred Spirits’ sculpture in Midleton, Co. Cork.
Historic marker for the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek. CC|BY Original author: Dominique Conway
‘Eternal Heart’, created by Choctaw artist Samuel Stitt. This sister statue to ‘Kindred Spirits’ in Midleton, Cork, sits outside the Choctaw Capitol Museum in Tushkahoma, Oklahoma.
Detail of the 2025 annual Choctaw Trail of Tears commemorative, cycle, which Dr Padraig Kirwan participated in as the first Irish rider invited by the tribe to join the journey.
Detail from the Choctaw Cultural Center in Calera, OK.
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