Irish Hunger Memorial - Wikipedia
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 starved to death between 1845 and 1852. In the decade after 1845, over 900,000 Irish emigrants entered the port of New York so that by 1855 Irish-born New Yorkers comprised almost one third of the city's ...
Irish Hunger Memorial - BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY
The Irish Hunger Memorial is designed to raise public awareness of the events that led to the famine of 1845-52 and to encourage efforts to address current and future hunger worldwide. One and a half million Irish were lost through famine related death and the Diaspora.
What is the Irish Hunger Memorial in New York? - IrishCentral
2024年10月23日 · The Irish Hunger Memorial in Battery Park City in Manhattan, New York, is a reminder of those that lost their lives during the Great Irish Famine.
Irish Hunger Memorial - Battery Park City Parks
The Memorial represents a rural Irish landscape with an abandoned stone cottage, stone walls, fallow potato fields and the flora on the north Connacht wetlands. It is both a metaphor for the Great Irish Famine and a reminder that hunger today is often the result of lack of access to land.
Irish Hunger Memorial - Atlas Obscura
2013年3月15日 · Located in Battery Park City in Lower Manhattan, the Irish Hunger Memorial venerates victims of the Great Potato Famine, and all instances of hunger crises worldwide.
IRISH HUNGER MEMORIAL REOPENS - BATTERY PARK CITY …
2017年7月31日 · The Irish Hunger Memorial is a public work of art located at North End Avenue and Vesey Street in Battery Park City. Containing stones from each of Ireland’s 32 counties, it was conceived of and designed by artist Brian Tolle and intended to be a contemplative space devoted to raising awareness of the Great Irish Hunger and Migration of 1845 ...
Irish Hunger Memorial New York City.com : Profile - NYC.com
The Irish Hunger Memorial (or Irish Famine Memorial), the creation of artist Brian Tolle, landscape artist Gail Wittwer-Laird, and 1100 Architect, is devoted to raising public awareness of the events that led to the "Great Irish Famine and Migration" of 1845-1852.
Quirky Attraction: Irish Hunger Memorial in New York City
2023年10月11日 · The Irish Hunger Memorial contains an authentic, roofless Irish cottage, limestone from all 32 counties of Ireland, as well as a garden area with native Irish plants. The walls are adorned with poetry and depressing writings about famine and hunger.
Battery Park City's Irish Hunger Memorial: In the Beginning
2015年6月1日 · Last month, the artist Brian Tolle, designer of the Irish Hunger Memorial in Battery Park City, gave a talk about this half-acre site that commemorates the Great Famine, a tragic episode in Irish history that began in 1845 and took the lives of an estimated one million people.
New York’s Irish Famine Memorial re-opens after $5m renovation
2017年8月2日 · After a nearly year-long renovation that cost more than $5 million, the Irish Hunger Memorial in downtown Manhattan reopened for visitors on Friday, July 28.