We look at the story and history behind it and why it's so important. The Famine Memorial in Dublin Ireland is a collection of statues designed and crafted by Dublin sculptor Rowan Gillespie and ...

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 ...

When up to 70,000 victims of the Great Irish Famine landed on Montreal’s shores ... city fathers and the construction company to erect a memorial to the victims -- The Ship Fever Monument.

Irish Famine: How Ulster was devastated by its impact ... were discovered The human remains will be buried near the Irish Memorial on Cap-des-Rosiers beach at a ceremony this summer.

Gaelic Park is also home to the Chicago Famine Memorial, paying tribute to the Irish lives lost during The Great Famine of ...

Between 1845 and 1849, Ireland was affected by a famine. This famine killed an estimated one million people either from starvation or disease. Thousands of people emigrated to America across the ...

Between 1845 and 1852, Ireland suffered a period of starvation, disease and emigration that became known as the Great Famine. About one million people are thought to have died, external when the ...