The Boston Irish Famine Memorial is a memorial park located on a plaza between Washington Street and School Street in Boston, Massachusetts. The park...
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The Irish Famine Memorial, or An Gorta Mor 'Irish Famine and Emigration,' also known as the Irish Famine Monument, is installed in Cambridge Common, in...
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The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger (Irish: an Gorta Mór [ənˠ ˈɡɔɾˠt̪ˠə ˈmˠoːɾˠ]), the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, was a period of...
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overseas with large populations descended from Irish immigrants. To date more than 100 memorials to the Irish Famine have been constructed worldwide. County...
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The Famine Memorial, officially titled Famine, is a memorial in Dublin, Ireland. The memorial, which stands on Customs House Quay, is in remembrance of...
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Irish limestone base on a concrete foundation. Oregon portal Visual arts portal List of memorials to the Great Famine "Oregon's Irish famine memorial...
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in New York City. The memorial is dedicated to raising awareness of the Great Irish Hunger, referred to as An Gorta Mór in Irish, in which over one million...
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fever" (typhoid) of 6,000 mostly Irish immigrants to Canada during the immigration following the Great Irish Famine in the years 1847-1848. It was decided...
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The Galway Famine Ship Memorial is a memorial located in Salthill, County Galway, Ireland. It was unveiled on 4 July 2012. The monument is an expansion...
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Holodomor (redirect from Urkrainian famine)
The Holodomor, also known as the Ukrainian Famine,[better source needed] was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions...
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The Western New York Irish Famine Memorial is a memorial to The Great Famine. Situated on La Riviere Street along the waterfront in Buffalo, New York...
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legacy of the Great Famine in Ireland (Irish: An Gorta Mór or An Drochshaol, litt: The Bad Life) followed a catastrophic period of Irish history between 1845...
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The National Famine Museum (Irish: Músaem Náisiúnta an Ghorta Mhóir) is located at Strokestown Park, County Roscommon, Ireland. The museum contains records...
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parts of the world. The Irish dominated the first wave of newcomers during this period, especially following the Great Irish Famine. Their arrival transformed...
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the Massachusetts State House and Park Street Church. The Boston Irish Famine Memorial is also located along the Freedom Trail, between the Old Corner...
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United States in the mid-19th century because of the Great Famine in Ireland. Some of the first Irish people to travel to the New World did so as members of...
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Kindred Spirits (sculpture) (category Great Famine (Ireland) monuments and memorials)
Cork, Ireland. Created by artist Alex Pentek, Kindred Spirits commemorates the 1847 donation by the Native American Choctaw People to Irish famine relief...
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Grosse Isle (redirect from Irish Memorial National Historic Site of Canada)
Isle(the famine) and the Irish Memorial National Historic Site, the island was the site of an immigration depot which housed predominantly Irish immigrants...
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to escape the Great Irish Famine. Their bodies were discovered during construction work done on the island in 1990. The memorial is the result of decades...
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"Irish Famine sparked international fundraising". IrishCentral. 10 May 2010. Fitzpatrick, David. Irish Emigration 1801–1921, 3 "History". Irish Famine...
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April 2013 Irish Famine Memorial, Liverpool Walks, archived from the original on 12 January 2013, retrieved 9 April 2013 Irish Famine Memorial, Liverpool...
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Maurice Harron (category Sculptors from Northern Ireland)
in Carlisle Square, Derry, Let the Dance Begin in Strabane, the Irish Famine Memorial on Cambridge Common, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Red Hugh O'Donnell...
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The Famine Memorial Fountain is a memorial to the Great Famine in Mullingar, Ireland. It stands in a public square at an intersection between Dominick...
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National Famine Commemoration Day (Irish: Lá Cuimhneacháin Náisiúnta an Ghorta Mhóir) is an annual observance in Ireland commemorating the Great Famine. A week-long...
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Cambridge Common (section Monuments and memorials)
Cambridge Common is also the site of an Irish Famine Memorial, dedicated on July 23, 1997, by then President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, and unveiled to an...
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of the Irish Heritage Trail. Rose Kennedy Garden Kevin White Statue James Michael Curley Statues Boston City Hall Boston Irish Famine Memorial Granary...
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arrived. It is sometimes called the Famine Rebellion (because it took place as a result of the Great Irish Famine), the Battle of Ballingarry or the Battle...
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Joe Byrne (category Australian people of Irish descent)
Clare, Ireland. She was one of the "Irish Famine Girls" who immigrated to Sydney, Port Phillip and Adelaide from workhouses in every county of Ireland. These...
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The Bengal famine of 1943 was a famine in the Bengal province of British India (present-day Bangladesh, West Bengal and eastern India) during World War...
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John Gordon (convict) (category Irish people executed abroad)
In September 2014, Enda Kenny, the Taoiseach of Ireland, visited the Rhode Island Irish Famine Memorial and in a speech praised Martin and Chafee for pardoning...
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