Irish Hunger Memorial
Historic site · Battery Park City, New York
Dedicated July 16, 2002, the memorial incorporates an authentic 19th-century stone cottage transported from County Mayo along with stones and soil from Ireland's western coast, commemorating the Great Hunger of 1845-1852 and the more than 900,000 Irish emigrants who arrived at the port of New York in the following decade.
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Vesey Street at North End Avenue, New York, NY 10282
Photo "Irish Hunger Memorial": Michael Luft-Weissberg, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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