Professor Tom Devine, a prominent authority on modern Scottish history, warned it must not be "founded on comforting myths and unproven beliefs". Mr Devine, director of the Scottish Centre of Diaspora Studies at Edinburgh University, urged those behind the push for the memorial to the 100,000 people who fled to Glasgow to escape starvation in Ireland in the 1840s to base their campaign on "evidence and analysis of what actually happened", regardless of the "uncomfortable truths" it would throw up.
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