Coinníonn leacht ag imeall im bPairc Cathair Bhataire i Manhattan iseal i gcuimhne an Gorta Mór na hÉireann. Bhí é an Drochshaol go cinnte. Cuirim achainí faoi bhráid "an gorta a bhuail Éire ón mbliain 1845 ar aghaidh agus a mharaigh is a ruaig as an tír cupla milliún Éireannach" de réir Vicipéid as Gaeilge.
Cheap Brian Tolle é. Deanamh sé ó aolchloch. Is leachtán cloch cósulacht créthulach adhlactha anallód.
Thug an ailtire seo na clocha briste le Contae Mhaigh Eo go raibh ag dulta i léig ina bhfothracha ann. Ath-thóg siad na baillte folamh sin ar an mullach os cionn an bealach siúil a fhágail suas. Tá baile ó Ceathreamhadh di Dhubhagain soir na hÁth Tí an Mheasaigh. Bhí an teach bunaithe na chlann Slack na céile fir na Tolle fadó.
Chuir siad gort leath-acra a chur faoi fásra sa thir dhúchais suas ansin. D'oscail sé ina samraidh 2002. Tá áit dhá bloc siar go díreach ó suíomh ar Lár Trádáil Dhomhan. Tá tú ábalta feicéail ar an láithaireach ath-tógála sin ina grianghraf le Roger Shepherd go socair suas anseo.
Eolas:
Vicipéid (as Béarla) le Leacht Ghórta Mór Éireannach ag imeall im bParc Cathair Bhataire i Manhattan iseal.
Ghrianghrafaí súil i Nua-Eabhrac
Ghrianghrafaí níos mó le Weblicist ó Manhattan
Tá aiste le Roberta Smith ina Amannaí Nua-Eabhrac faoi tiomhnú ina dhiadh 9/11.
Leabhrán & learscáil.
Tá aiste-ghriangraf le Roger Shepherd ó Teist Ailtireacht
Irish Hunger Memorial
Many Irish people were taken by death in the great famine. I paid a visit to the memorial-stone in homage to them. I went to New York this past weekend, and during my first full day there, I walked over there.
This monument for the Irish Hunger Memorial near Battery City Park in lower Manhattan commemorates the Great Hunger of Ireland. It was the "bad time" surely. It memorializes "the famine that hit Ireland from the year 1845 on and killed across the land a couple million of the Irish" according to Irish-language Wikipedia.
Brian Tolle designed it. It was made from limestone. It's a grave-stone site resembling a passage tomb in ancient times.
This architect took the broken stones from County Mayo gone to ruin there. They rebuilt those empty walls on the top above the passage way as entrance below. The house is from Carradoogan to the east of Attymass. It was the family home of the Slack clan of Tolle's life-partner long ago.
They planted the half-acre field with native flora up there. It was opened in the summer of 2002. The place is two blocks straight westward from the site of the World Trade Center. You're able to look at that re-building site in the photograph by Roger Shepherd easily, above here.
Information:
Wikipedia for the Irish Hunger Memorial near Battery City Park, lower Manhattan.
New York City Walk Photos.
More photos by Weblicist of Manhattan
Roberta Smith 2002 New York Times article on post-9/11 dedication.
Brochure & map.
Architectural Record photo-essay by Roger Shepherd.
Scríobh mé seo/I wrote this 12ú/th Aibreal/April 2011. Grianghraf le/Photo by Roger Shepherd.
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