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.
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€9,500 chair made with rare Irish slate and weighing in at 210kg goes on displayA €9,500 chair weighing over 200kg that was made with the same historic Irish slate used in landmark buildings around the ...
The Boston Irish Famine Memorial, at the corner of Washington ... The sculptor, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1848. The Saint-Gaudens family fled the Irish famine when ...
Dublin is one of my favorite cities on the planet ... Standing around his monument are the pillars of the Famine Memorial. These markers commemorate the infamous Great Famine of the mid-1800s. This ...
The national parade in Dublin saw an estimated half a million people line ... He also visited the Irish hunger memorial, a Famine-time cottage shipped over from Ireland and rebuilt within eyesight of ...
The public are being asked to help document and preserve Dublin’s old bilingual street signs with their unique Gaelic ...
In the first act of the wittiest Irish play of the nineteenth century, Oscar Wilde’s “Importance of Being Earnest,” there is much ado about a shortage of food. The fearsome Aunt Augusta is ...
His latest book is Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine. From 1845 to 1851, Irish potato crops were destroyed by a novel pathogen, the fungus-like organism Phytophthora infestans.
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