Irish Famine Memorial

Local nameIrish Famine Memorial
LocationBoston, United States

The Irish Hunger Memorial is a 0.5-acre park at the corner of Vesey Street and North End Avenue in the Battery Park City neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City — dedicated to raising awareness of the Great Irish Hunger, referred to as An Gorta Mór in Irish , in which over one million starved to death between 1845 and 1852 as a result of British policies that prioritized the exportation of profitable foods as most of the potato crop was wiped out by a fungus like organism called Phytophthora infestans.

Construction of the memorial began in March 2001, and despite the September 11 attacks on the nearby World Trade Center, which also affected surrounding areas, the memorial was completed and dedicated on July 16, 2002.The memorial, designed collaboratively by artist Brian Tolle, landscape architect Gail Wittwer-Laird, and architecture firm 1100 Architect, is landscaped with stones, soil, and native vegetation transported from the western coast of Ireland — with stones from all…

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More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Hunger_Memorial

Official website http://www.boston.com/famine/

Email IrishMassachusetts@comcast.net

Address 307 Washington St, Boston 02108, United States

Coordinates 42°21'26.424" N -71°3'31.168" E

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