Irish Holocaust Memorials Around the World
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moncler sale In honor of the 150th Anniversary of The Great Hunger, Norma Smurfit commissioned a memorial and presented it to the City of Dublin in 1997. The bronze sculptures were designed and crafted by Dublin sculptor Rowan Gillespie and are located on Custom House Quay in Dublin’s Docklands. The sculptures are a commemorative work dedicated to those Irish people forced to emigrate during the Irish Hunger years. It depicts sculptures moncler outlets uk of starving, weary Irish making their way to the “Coffin Ships” for transportation to foreign lands.
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moncler cheap moncler coats for women outlet Ennistymon, Co. Clare, IrelandThis was the first memorial in Ireland to honor those who suffered and were lost during the Great Famine. It is erected on the grounds of an abandoned workhouse moncler outlets usa where an estimated 20,000 Irish moncler coats for kids died and a mass graveyard for children who perished and were buried without coffins. It was dedicated on August 20, 1995, the 150th anniversary of the tragedy.
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“Gentlemen, There is a little boy named Michael Rice of Lahinch aged about 4 years. He is an orphan, his father having died last year and his mother has expired on last Wednesday night, who is now about to womens moncler jackets be buried https://www.hotmoncleroutlet.com without a coffin!! Unless ye make some provision for such. The child in question is now moncler coats for women at the Workhouse Gate expecting to be admitted, if not it will starve. Rob S. Constable”
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moncler outlet store Sligo Harbor is the site of a Famine Memorial erected on the 150th anniversary of The Great Hunger. The bronze statue is of a family comforting each other with the child pointing toward the new land where a ship will take them.
In the background, a plaque displays a ‘Letter moncler coats for cheap to America, January 2, 1850’.
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More than 2000 famine victims were buried at cheap moncler jackets wholesale the Famine Graveyard of St. John’s moncler coats sale Hospital in Sligo. The bronze and stone sculpture called Faoin Sceach (pronounced Freen Skack, meaning “Under the Hawthorn”) was erected in 1997 by the County Sligo Famine Commemoration Committee. The sculptor, Fred Conlon chose a bush as a memorial for the famine dead. In rural Ireland this bush was regarded as a sacred object. No farmer would cut it down because they believed it would upset the spirits. During moncler outlet store the famine many starving people lay down under it to die or were buried there.
The plaque beside the statue reads:
Reilig an Ghorta Mhir. You are entering a long abandoned Famine Graveyard. Here ends ‘Casan na Marbh’, Pathway of Death, so named because unnumbered thousands perished following its grim passage from rotted fields to odious workhouse to ignominious burial.