Top on the list of tourist attractions for many Americans visiting Dublin is the Famine Memorial near the Custom House, a heartbreaking and poignant work that reflects the most tragic period in ...

The memorial also recalls the thousands of people who also arrived in the city from the Highlands and Islands due to the famine, which saw blight devastate potato crops. Some of those who came ...

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.

marked by the Famine Memorial in Dublin He said he had checked with "all and sundry" including Alastair Campbell, then Downing Street press secretary, and "everyone" thought that reference was right.

The book will fund a memorial to those who were denied access to the poorhouse in Macroom during the Great Famine Macroom Tidy Towns secretary Lisa Manning presenting the relaunched book to Evelyn ...

died in the Bengal Famine. It was one of the largest losses of civilian life on the Allied side. But there is no memorial to them anywhere in the world - not even a plaque. Can three million ...