Telephone service came to this town between 1954 and 1968.[3]
Notable local inhabitants include the artist Alemayehu Bizuneh (born 1934). He studied in France (1966–70), and Germany (1975–76) and later had a residency at the National Museum of Ethiopia in 1980.[3] Hirna is also home city of former Deputy Prime minister of Ethiopia Addisu Legesse.
Demographics
Young boy tying his bull in Hirna
Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency, in 2005 Hirna has an estimated total population of 16,726, of whom 8,360 are men and 8,366 are women.[4] The 1994 national census reported this town had a total population of 9,353 of whom 4,534 were men and 4,819 women.
References
^Rimbaud mentions Hirna in an itinerary he included in a letter written 26 August 1887 to his employer Alfred Bardey. I promise to be good: the letters of Arthur Rimbaud, translated, edited and with an introduction by Wyatt Mason (New York: Modern Library, 2003), p. 268
^Harold G. Marcus, The Life and Times of Menelik II: Ethiopia 1844-1913, (Lawrenceville: Red Sea Press, 1995), p. 91
