| Description: | This quilt was created to raise awareness of the need for funding for research into the cause and effect that breast cancer has for women in Ireland. It was created as part of a global initiative called "Pink Quilt" where women all over the world came together to create quilts to sell as a fund raiser in each country for breast cancer research. The group that created this quilt began after a talk and display of quilts by quilt designer Gay Grant on International Inner Wheel day in 2006. The women in the Inner Wheel Club formed a quilting group to make a pink quilt for Majella Magee during her year as Inner Wheel District Chairman (Ireland), whose charities for support during her year in office were the Marie Keating Foundation Ireland and Cancer Research Northern Ireland. Majella took the quilt to all her meetings throughout Ireland where it served as a visual message of survival for women facing the challenge of being diagnosed with breast cancer.
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