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'Friends Goodwill' Memorial
'Friends Goodwill' Memorial
'Friends Goodwill' Memorial
'Friends Goodwill' Memorial
'Friends Goodwill' Memorial
'Friends Goodwill' Memorial
'Friends Goodwill' Memorial
'Friends Goodwill' Memorial
'Friends Goodwill' Memorial
'Friends Goodwill' Memorial
'Friends Goodwill' Memorial
'Friends Goodwill' Memorial
'Friends Goodwill' Memorial
'Friends Goodwill' Memorial
'Friends Goodwill' Memorial

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Upon a two-stepped base, the upper step clad with marble tablets, a family group of three in eighteenth century dress, the woman holding a leather bound book in her right hand, the boy holding his shoes in his left hand and a small bundle in his right, the man with his left hand resting on the boy's right shoulder.
Title

'Friends Goodwill' Memorial

Date

1992

Medium

bronze, concrete & marble

Accession number

BT40_FP_S019

Work type

Statue

Owner

Mid and East Antrim Borough Council

Custodian

Mid and East Antrim Borough Council

Work status

extant

Unveiling date

16th May 1992

Access

time restrictions apply

Signature/marks description

at the foot of the back of the woman's dress, within an etched rectangle: ED BARTON / 1992; and to its right: CAST / BRONZE FOUNDRY DUBLIN

Inscription description

in white painted lettering on a plaque attached to the upper step: THIS MEMORIAL, UNVEILED ON 16TH MAY 1992 BY PROFESSOR BOBBY MOSS PH.D OF SOUTH CAROLINA, / IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE FIRST ULSTER EMIGRANTS WHO SAILED FROM LARNE / IN MAY 1717 UPON THE "FRIENDS GOODWILL", BOUND FOR BOSTON / THEY WERE TO BE THE FIRST OF MANY. / "THERE IS NO OTHER RACE IN THE UNITED STATES THAT CAN PRODUCE / A ROLL OF HONOUR SO LONG AND SO SHINING WITH DISTINCTION / AND WHO SHALL DENY OUR CLAIM TO HAVE DONE MORE, MUCH MORE THAN ANY OTHERS TO MAKE THE UNITED STATES?"

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Located at

Curran Road, Larne

BT40 1BX

Located in the middle of Curran Park, on the south side of Curran Road.