Wandering at the Boston Irish Famine Memorial (10 Images)

3 min readOct 5, 2022

~ Wednesday, October 5, 2022 Blog Post ~

Me at the Boston Irish Famine Memorial (Sheena Ricarte, 2010)

I want to share these images of myself at the Boston Irish Famine Memorial. This memorial park situated on a plaza between Boston’s School Street and Washington Street features an important collection of statues.

I want to note here that the Boston Irish Famine Memorial, which is known in Irish is An Gorta Mór or “The Great Hunger,” is relevant to my blog since I am an enthusiast of international economics and finance, besides money and personal finance, wealth, and banking.

As an important sculpture, the Boston Irish Famine Memorial includes two groups of artworks which contrast the emaciated and starving Irish family struggling during the Great Famine of 1845 to 1852 in Ireland with a prosperous and well-nourished family that had emigrated here in the United States.

I must say that people who want to survive and relish what life has to offer will do all that it takes to escape poverty and hunger.

At the time of writing this blog post, Boston is the home of many Irish-Americans whose ancestors believed in the “American Dream” of financial and material prosperity here in the United States.

People worldwide flock to America to achieve their dreams despite this country’s current economic dilemmas.