New Quinnipiac Museum Commemorates Ireland’s “Great Calamity”
November 5, 2012Strictly From Hunger
New Quinnipiac Museum Commemorates Ireland’s “Great Calamity”
The opening of the new museum is typically a cause for celebration. But what about when the museum’s purpose is to memorialize a profound tragedy?
Quinnipiac University is opening Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, Musaem an Ghorta Mhoir (in Gaelic) October 11 in a 5,000-square-foot renovated former library on Whitney Avenue in Hamden, just around the corner from the school’s campus at the foot of sleeping Gaint State Park.
The museum is devoted entirely to showcasing Irish art depiciting the events and circumstances surrounding the Great Famine of 1845-1852 (popularly referred to as the Irish Potato Famine). It houses one of the biggest collections of art relevant to the period in the world.
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