Famine Monument
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The Famine Monument in Dublin was built to commemorate the Great Famine in Ireland from 1845 to 1852 and other famines that left over a million deaths. It was created from bronze by Rowan Gillespie and erected in 1997.
The monument is located near the harbor on Custom House Quay, on the banks of the Liffey . In the 19th century, many of those affected were forced to emigrate and thus embark for America. One of the first groups of these emigrants left the Custom House wharf on St. Patrick's Day in 1846 with the four- master Perseverance under Captain William Scott. All 210 passengers survived the trip and arrived in New York on May 18, 1846 .
A counterpart to the Dublin memorial is a group of figures from Gillespies, which has been commemorating the arrival of hunger refugees from Ireland since 2007 in Ireland Park in Toronto .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Friedrich Ludwig Middendorf : masting and rigging of ships. google Books, accessed September 14, 2014 .
- ^ The Famine Memorial and The World Poverty Stone. docklands, accessed September 14, 2014 .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 20 ′ 53 ″ N , 6 ° 15 ′ 0.2 ″ W.