The Irish Hunger Memorial in TriBeCa/Battery Park City, NYC.

“The Irish Hunger Memorial, designed collaboratively by artist Brian Tolle, landscape architect Gail Wittwer-Laird, and architecture firm 1100 Architect, is located on a 0.5-acre (0.20 ha) site[1] at the corner of Vesey Street and North End Avenue in the Battery Park City neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, and is dedicated to raising awareness of the Great Irish Famine. Referred to by the Irish as An Gorta Mór in Irish or “The Great Hunger” in English, the Famine killed over a million people in Ireland between 1845 and 1852. ” From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

To read more about the Irish famine check out IrishCentral

JKS 3/16/18