Commemoration of Famine emigrants in 1997

Located on Custom House Quay in Dublin's Docklands, Rowan Gillespie's sculptures depict people affected by the Famine, thin from starvation and clutching their little belongings, as though walking towards a ship that could take them to better prospects in America. Indeed, one of the first ships to New York during the Famine years sailed from Custom House Quay in 1846.

Rowan Gillespie (born 1953), Famine, bronze sculptures, Ireland 1997, colour photograph, 2006, photographer: AlanMc; source: Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Famine_memorial_dublin.jpg?uselang=de, public domain.