The 1990s marked a significant shift in attitudes towards commemorating the Famine, as hundreds of events took place in Ireland and throughout the Irish diaspora, some of which received sponsorship from the National Famine Commemoration Committee based in the Department of the Taoiseach, led by TD Avril Doyle.

In 2010 Britain failed to send a diplomatic representative to the opening of the National Famine Commemoration, while 14 other nations did.

Brendan Graham has also recently written a number of integrated song and narrative pieces including Writing the Famine in Fiction and Song, for The National Famine Commemoration Week in Ireland, 2010.

They've been involved also with the following organisations: Free Tibet, Royal National Institute for the Deaf ( RNID ), Cancer Research UK, Byrne for Heart Attack and asthma awareness campaigns, Daily Star ’ s Reclaim Our Streets crusade, Filan for Irish Red Cross ( by Sligo Rover's Showgrounds football match ), Byrne for Oxfam's East Africa Famine appeal ( by Celtic v Manchester United football match ), Filan and Byrne for Soccer Aid, JP McManus Invitational Pro-Am, One World Beat, Egan for Strandhill Indonesian Relief Fund ( SIRF, in aid of the South Asian tsunami victims ), World Food Programme ( WFP ), Muscle Help Foundation, Feehily for Aware, Byrne for Children ’ s Hospice South West ( by Truro charity football match ), Global Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign and Real Man campaign.

Skibbereen was the focal point of Ireland's first National Famine Memorial Day on 17 May 2009.

The National Famine Commemoration Committee has agreed that the centerpiece of the new memorial day should rotate between the Four Provinces on an annual basis.

* National Famine Commemoration Day

The National Famine Monument at the base of Croagh Patrick in Murrisk, County Mayo, Ireland depicts a coffin ship with skeletons and bones as rigging.

Population displacement and settlement along with gradual urban and commercial development, the crossroads location, the anglicizing National Schools system, the Famine as well as the incorporation of the town into the rail network ( 1849 ), all helped hasten the decline of the vernacular Irish spoken in the area.

He worked at the Commissioners of National Education during the years of the Great Irish Famine.

MNF emerged out of the Mizo National Famine Front, which was formed by Pu Laldenga to protest against the inaction of the Indian central government towards the famine situation in the Mizo areas of the Assam state in 1959.

In September 1960, the Society adopted the name Mizo National Famine Front ( MNFF ).

The Mizo National Famine Front, which was originally formed to help ease the immense sufferings of the people during the severe Mautam Famine in Mizoram, was converted into Mizo National Front ( MNF ) on October 22, 1961.

This was followed by the March 1966 Mizo National Front uprising, resulting in the attack of the military installations in Aizawl, Lunglei and other towns which followed by the declaration of Independence of Mizoram by the Mizo National Front, formerly known as Mizo National Famine Front.

Her works included The Web of Indian Life, which sought to rectify many myths in the Western world about Indian culture and customs, Kali the Mother, The Master as I Saw Him on Swami Vivekananda, Notes of Some Wanderings with the Swami Vivekananda on her travels from Nainital, Almora and other places with Swamiji, The Cradle Tales of Hindusim on the stories from Puranas, Ramayana and Mahabharata, Studies from an Eastern Home, Civil Ideal and Indian Nationality, Hints on National Education in India, Glimpses of Famine and Flood in East Bengal — 1906.

Murrisk is also the site of Ireland's National Famine Memorial, designed by Irish artist John Behan, which abstractly resembles a coffin ship filled with dying people.

The school on Fermoy Road was constructed in 1977 replacing the two-roomed " Old School " formerly known as Scart National School built at the height of the Great Famine in 1847.

High-speed buses on the George Washington Memorial Parkway, operating between downtown Washington and Cabin John, Glen Echo and Brookmont, would constitute an alluring sample of what the new National Capital Transportation Agency can do for this city.

Of course, while in this vicinity you won't want to miss a visit to Mount Rushmore National Memorial where on the side of a mountain are the famous sculptures of Presidents Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt.

The hotly debated plan for the capital's Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, a circle of huge tablets engraved with his speeches ( and promptly dubbed by one of its critics, `` Instant Stonehenge '' ), is another of Udall's headaches, since as supervisor of the National Parks Commission he will share in the responsibility for building it.

On September 12, 2002, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, dedicated the Victims of Terrorist Attack on the Pentagon Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery.

At the National September 11 Memorial, the names of the Pentagon victims are inscribed on the South Pool, on Panels S-1 and S-72 – S-76.

Capp received the National Cartoonists Society's Billy DeBeck Memorial Award in 1947 for Cartoonist of the Year.

At the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Berenson is memorialized at the North Pool, on Panel N-76.

Olson ’ s name is located on Panel S-70 of the National September 11 Memorial ’ s South Pool, along with those of other passengers of Flight 77.

At the National September 11 Memorial, Olson's name is located on Panel S-70 of the South Pool, along with those of other passengers of Flight 77.

Beug ’ s name is located on Panel N-1 of the National September 11 Memorial ’ s North Pool, along with those of other passengers of Flight 11.

At the National 9 / 11 Memorial, Beug is memorialized at the North Pool, on Panel N-1.

Jones ' name is located on Panel N-74 of the National September 11 Memorial ’ s North Pool, along with those of other passengers of Flight 11.

At the National 9 / 11 Memorial, Jones is memorialized at the North Pool, on Panel N-74.

The National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall is a famous monument, landmark, and tourist attraction in Taipei, Taiwan.

* The National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall Official Site

*" The Memorial Song of Late President Chiang Kai-shek " ( Ministry of National Defence of ROC )

At the National 9 / 11 Memorial, Angell and his wife are memorialized at the North Pool, on Panel N-1, along with other passengers from Flight 11.

* National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe, commemorate Italian Istrian and Dalmatian exiles and Foibe massacres ( Italy, especially in Trieste )

* 2001 – The Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial.

In 2005, Lucas gave US $ 1 million to help build the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial on the National Mall in Washington D. C. to commemorate American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

Engraving of Kilroy was here | Kilroy on the National World War II Memorial | World War II Memorial in Washington, D. C ..

Since 1963, it was proclaimed by the President of the Federal Republic as " National Day of Memorial of the German People.

At the National September 11 Memorial, Bailey is memorialized at the South Pool, on Panel S-3.

National Maritime Day proclamation by John A. Notte, Jr., Governor

The President of the United States, pursuant to a Joint Resolution of Congress, has issued a proclamation each year since 1933 declaring May 22nd to be National Maritime Day.

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Monday, May 22nd, 1961, as National Maritime Day, reminding our citizens that American Merchant ships and American seamen are ready at all times to serve our Nation in the cause of freedom and justice.

The President of the United States proclaimed the first Sunday in November as `` National Grandmothers' Day '' and urged America to say it with flowers.

* National Healthcare Decisions Day ( US )-April 16

* Liberation Day in Italy-April 25 is a National Holiday that celebrates the end of the Nazi Germany occupation in the Northern Italy.

* The Philippines celebrates National Heroes Day in commemoration of the First Cry of the Philippine Revolution on August 23, 1896.

* National Persian Gulf Day ( Iran )

* Earliest day on which National Heroes ' Day can fall, while August 28 is the latest ; celebrated on the fourth Monday in August.

* National Day, celebrates the independence of Singapore from Malaysia in 1965.

* National Peacekeepers ' Day, celebrated on Sunday closest to the day ( Canada )

* National Women's Day ( South Africa )

* National Day, celebrates the independence of Benin from France in 1960.

* National Day, commemorates Switzerland becoming a single unit in 1291.

*** National Acadian Day ( Acadians )

* HM the Queen's Birthday and National Mother's Day ( Thailand )

* National Science Day ( Thailand )

* National Aviation Day ( United States )

* National Day or Den ' Nezalezhnosti, celebrates the independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union in 1991.

* National Day of Mourning, to commemorate workers killed, injured, or suffering illness from occupational hazards and accidents.

* National Heroes Day ( Barbados )

* National Day ( Sardinia )

* National Language Day or Limba Noastră ( Moldova )

* Day of National Unity ( Georgia )

* National Sovereignty and Children's Day ( Turkey and Northern Cyprus )