Matching a set of Rowan Gillespie's statues in Dublin, called "The Departure", this set in Toronto, called "The Arrival", commemorates the 38,000 Irish famine emigrants who arrived here in Toronto in 1847, at the foot of Bathurst Street, at what is now called Eireann Quay. The park was opened by Irish President Mary McAleese in 2007.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Ireland Park, Toronto
Labels:
Canada,
downtown Toronto,
famine,
Ireland,
Ireland Park,
Irish,
Irish Diaspora
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