The statues depict the starving Irish people walking towards ships to bring them overseas to escape the hunger and poverty of the Irish famine; the women, men, and children shown in the memorial ...

Gaelic Park is also home to the Chicago Famine Memorial, paying tribute to the Irish lives lost during ... Fenway Park, a slew of statues, and more. The full trail map can be downloaded here.

Unveiled 160 years ago on Dec 1, 1859, on the shores of the St. Lawrence River in Montreal, near the site of the fever sheds that housed the sick and dying victims of the Great Irish Famine of ...

Dublin statues commemorating the Great Famine in ... beach belonged to shipwreck victims lost at sea while fleeing the Irish Famine, the Canadian government has confirmed. The bones of three ...

Irish minister Joe McHugh and historian Prof Sir Tom Devine. The memorial also recalls the thousands of people who also arrived in the city from the Highlands and Islands due to the famine ...

Each November several hundred people gather at a standing stone memorial in Williamstown – the first settlement of colonial Melbourne, Australia. They are remembering the Irish Famine orphan ...