North Star Mission:
A Dublin based band formed in March 2008. Currently working on a debut album: Silver Survival Suit.
North Star Mission took its name from a book by Kenn Harper-Give me back my father’s body, The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo. The story of a young Inuit boy. When six-year-old Minik was chosen as one of six Eskimos from Qaanaaq, Greenland, to accompany explorer Robert Peary to New York City in 1897, he expected a brief adventure. Instead, he became an orphan and an exile. Treated as scientific curiosities, Minik’s father and three others quickly succumbed to pneumonia, Adopted by a middle-class family, Minik enjoyed a few relatively happy years until the family suffered financial disgrace. Peary refused to help support the boy or finance his return to Greenland and Minik languished in poverty for several years. The horrific climax to his ordeal came when Minik learned that his father’s body had been put on display at the American Museum of Natural History. Upon his return to Greenland, Minik befriended two missionaries who established a small and humble church in the middle of the cold and barren landscape. They named the church North Star Mission.
Album is currently in production, We plan on gigging in the coming months...
Email: mdolan21@hotmail.com
derekdolan75@hotmail.com
www.myspace.com/northstarmission
