A €9,500 chair weighing over 200kg that was made with the same historic Irish slate used in landmark buildings around the ...
They were joined by a polar bear sculpture in Longyearbyen in Norway — the ... Washington and the Ground Zero 9/11 memorial. He also visited the Irish hunger memorial, a Famine-time cottage shipped ...
A service on Monday morning at the Irish Memorial commemorated the potato famine and the struggles the Irish endured. Speakers shared about the contributions the Irish immigrants made to the city ...
The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War! Who were the Molly Maguires? Learn about this violent secret society that started in Ireland to protect peasants during the potato famine of the 1840s ...
If you’re walking the Black Heritage Trail, you could find out that Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the sculptor of the Shaw Memorial ... Irish Boston in political terms. But you can uncover richness ...
A panel of more than 60 experts (authors, critics, academics, festival curators and booksellers) select their favourite Irish novels and short stories of the years 2020-2025 ...
Through the efforts of its outward-looking people and its seafaring traditions over the centuries, Derry has managed to extend its influence far across the globe. Its strategic position on the cusp of ...
The sculptor who created the well-known famine memorial on Dublin’s quays, has revealed his late father “refused to look at” the work as he felt their family hadn’t suffered during that time.
A sculpture inspired by an Irish language poem that was stolen from outside a Belfast library before being recovered is “gathering dust” instead of being returned to its plinth. There has been ...
Visit the Irish Famine Memorial Monument A somber but impactful part of Irish history, the Irish Famine Memorial Monument is located along Buffalo’s waterfront. The location is an homage to the area ...
The sculpture shows Tobias Boland ... after the Providence and Worcester Railroad began operating. After the Irish famine in the 1840s, many more moved across the Atlantic to Central Massachusetts.
Collins, the city’s mayor from 1960-1968, on the side of the building. The Boston Irish Famine Memorial, at the corner of Washington and School streets, was erected to commemorate the 150th ...