An Gorta Mor:
A Hunger for Expression
by Elaine Alibrandi
... In July 2002, Governor George E. Pataki, along with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and President of Ireland Mary McAleese, dedicated New York State’s Irish Hunger Memorial, which takes its name from the Irish term for the famine of 1845–1852, “An Gorta Mor,” The Great Hunger. Located in Battery Park City, New York, it was designed by Brian Tolle, a resident of the city, and depicts a rural Irish landscape with an abandoned stone cottage, stone walls, fallow potato fields, and the plant life of the north Connacht wetlands.
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