The Irish Hunger Memorial, designed collaboratively by artist Brian Tolle, landscape architect Gail Wittwer-Laird, and 1100 Architect, is located on a one-half acre site at the corner of Vesey Street and North End Avenue in the Battery Park City neighborhood of Manhattan

Manhattan

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 in New York City

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, and is dedicated to raising awareness of the Great Irish Famine that killed up to a million in Ireland

Ireland

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 between the years 1845 and 1852. The memorial was dedicated on July 16, 2002. It is a uniquely landscaped plot, which utilizes stones, soil, and native vegetation brought in from the western coast of Ireland

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

. The memorial contains stones from all of the different counties of Ireland

Ireland

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. The memorial also incorporates an authentic rebuilt Irish cottage of the 19th century.

The cottage at the memorial is from Carradoogan in the parish of Attymass

Attymass

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 in County Mayo

County Mayo

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. The cottage belonged to the Slack family but was deserted in the 1960s. The Slack family donated the cottage to the memorial in "memory of all the Slack family members of previous generations who emigrated to America and fared well there."

External links

• Architectural Record Magazine Between Two Worlds: Remembering the Hungry By Roger Shepherd
• Jane Holtz Kay Hunger for Memorials: Article from Landscape Architecture, March 2003
• New York City Walk Photo Tour of Irish Hunger Memorial
• New York's garden monument to the Irish Famine Tourist Information Site
• Official website
• Irish Hunger Memorial brochure