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During the “Famine Years”, over 900,000 Irish entered America through New York to escape the horrors of the Irish genocide.
Today, in Battery Park, New York lies the Irish Hunger Memorial.
It is a .5 acre site with a small cottage on it.
The cottage was once owned by the Slack family of Attymass, Mayo and was moved brick by brick to America.
The grass and vegetation are all native to the west of Ireland.
Surrounding the cottage there are stones from every Irish county, with the name of the county inscribed on each stone.
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