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Michael D. Higgins
The shape of the room is meant to evoke the feeling of a ship. As you will see in the sculptures and other artworks in the collection, ships are a powerful emblem of the Irish Famine.
I can find no language nor illustration sufficiently impressive to portray the spectacle to an American reader.
Elihu Burrit
CT Activist and Humanitarian
The Irish Famine of 1845 to 1852 was the greatest social calamity, in terms of morality and suffering, that Ireland has ever experienced.
Michael D. Higgins President of Ireland
Famine was not the stuff of art. Those who witnessed the Great Hunger, or even survived it, or even just heard of it, would have considered it improper to represent it, or elevate it to the condition of art.
Niamh O'Sullivan
Curator, Inaugural Exhibition
An event has happened upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
Edmund Burke
Irish Statesmen, 1789
The Almighty, indeed, sent the blight but the British government sent the Famine.
John Mitchel 1861
The memory of the Famine remains one of the strongest ties which bind Ireland and Irish America together.
Michael D. Higgins
President of Ireland
