I’d heard about this sculpture before, altough never knew where it actually was. Down visiting family in Midleton for the weekend, and drove by it today completely by chance, had to double back for a photo.
I’d heard about this sculpture before, altough never knew where it actually was. Down visiting family in Midleton for the weekend, and drove by it today completely by chance, had to double back for a photo.
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lived in Cobh and never heard pf it. typical that one should hear about after moving to the big schmoke
I appreciate you taking the time to get a weird angle so we’d know it’s not yet another repost of the thing.
The Choctaw are apparently putting up their own memorial to the event, but [the link I found when I went to look for it isn’t available to us in Ireland](https://kfor.com/news/local/eternal-heart-sculpture-to-honor-choctaw-ireland-relationship/amp/). Still a class act, though.
*Midleton
Stunning!
It’s beautiful!
Love this story
Choctaw, great bunch of lads
mo dheartháir
A great bunch of lads.
*Midleton
It’s a giant shuttlecock.
Never forget that when those people gave us that cash they had virtually nothing themselves. It wasn’t long after the trail of tears when they were forced off their own land…and still they found it in their hearts to help people they’d never met the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
How many lives did they save? How many of us wouldn’t be alive today only that that cash kept one or other of our ancestors alive?
As far I’m concerned the Irish and the Choctaw should always have each other’s backs, forever.
Even better now, the Choctaw Nation just unveiled a statue at their capitol in Oklahoma as a tribute to the bond:
[https://www.choctawnation.com/news/news-releases/eternal-heart-sculpture-to-honor-choctaw-ireland-relationship-to-be-unveiled-at-choctaw-nation-capitol/?fbclid=IwAR1dhntdQjdTuKfqjvawUNEdnGjUSH867vKxdJl80Czw-6-qYW4aH4OUphI](https://www.choctawnation.com/news/news-releases/eternal-heart-sculpture-to-honor-choctaw-ireland-relationship-to-be-unveiled-at-choctaw-nation-capitol/?fbclid=IwAR1dhntdQjdTuKfqjvawUNEdnGjUSH867vKxdJl80Czw-6-qYW4aH4OUphI)
*Midleton
Beautiful
There is animals in fota that know how to spell midleton correctly.
Middleton Is a town in the uk with the oldest train in service.
Midleton is a town in Ireland with whisky and a bunch of feathers.
The great Choctaw people will never be forgotten by the Irish.
There is only one “D” in Midleton.
Midleton got the D.
Anyone else surprised to see Kindered Spirits here?
Fair play to them. They saw another indigenous people suffering and offered what they could during what some think was a genocide. As in the English who ruled, sat back and did nothing other dig mass graves and dumped bodies both alive and dead in.
[And the Irish recently returned the favor](https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/05/06/world/ireland-native-americans-choctaw-gift-trnd/index.html)