Famine Memorial Dublin
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
Famine Memorial Dublin
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Weston Westmoreland
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Photograph - Photograph
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The Great Famine of Ireland Memorial, Dublin.
Ireland suffered a devastating famine between 1845 and 49, which starved to death over one million people and forced as many to migrate. Today, Ireland has not recover the population it had in 1844.
The memorial was presented 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. This location is particularly appropriate as many of the migration ships sailed from Custom House Quay. The memorial therefore represents the march of the emaciated survivors on the way to the ships to America.
The causes of the famine were the succeeding failures of the potato harvest due to the blight, united to the colonial oppression of the British Empire, which owned all the rich Irish lands that kept producing grain, vegetables and livestock enough to feed twice the Irish population, but exported it all mercilessly to Great Britain while the Irish died. The degree of oppression and moral misery of the British Empire is hard to believe, to the point its behavior is considered Genocidal by some historians.
The potato blight attacked Europe too, but nowhere else was the famine so terrible or lasting.
You can learn more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)
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