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"Leacht Cuimhneacháin na nGael", Irish famine memorial located in Philadelphia. By 1846, Philadelphia had received Irish immigrants for six generations, but it was the seventh generation that was to greatly change the city's composition and posture with respect to immigrants. [21]
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The National Memorial to An Gorta Mór is located on a 1.75-acre (7,100 m 2) site at Front and Chestnut Streets, near Penn's Landing, and close to the site of Washington Avenue Immigration Station, where many Irish disembarked into America.
Her most well-known work is the Vietnam Women's Memorial installed in Washington, D.C., in 1993 [7] of which there is smaller replica at Vietnam Veterans Memorial State Park in Angel Fire, New Mexico. Goodacre was selected in 1997 as sculptor for the monumental Irish Memorial in Philadelphia. [8]
Penn's Landing is a waterfront area of Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, situated along the Delaware River. Its name commemorates the landing of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, in 1682. The actual landing site is farther south, in Chester. The city of Philadelphia purchased the right to use the name.
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By the early twentieth century, the Irish-American residents of the Christian Street Historic District began moving to West Philadelphia and to Delaware County, Pennsylvania. This coincided with the early portion of the Great Migration of African-Americans from the American South to northern cities in the United States such as Philadelphia ...
National September 11 Memorial & Museum, accessed Sept. 13, Irish Memorial Honors Firefighters Lost on 9/11. Voices Center for Resilience, accessed Sept. 13, List of 9/11 Memorials by Country.
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