If you ever find yourself in Battery Park City in Lower Manhattan, turn down Vesey Street toward North End Avenue. You’ll arrive at something unusual: a collection of stones, soil and moss, artfully arranged to look over the Hudson River.  It’s the Irish Hunger Memorial, a piece of public artwork that commemorates the devastating Irish famine of the mid-19th century, which led to the deaths of at least 1 million people and permanently altered Ireland’s history, forcing the emigration of millions more Irish to cities like New York. The Irish famine is unusual in how heavily commemora...

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