Famine Statue

In Real Life:

The Great Famine or the Great Hunger (Irish: An Gorta Mór or An Drochshaol), known more commonly outside Ireland as the Irish Potato Famine, is the name given to the famine in Ireland that started in 1845. The famine was due to the unfortunate appearance of the 'Blight', potato fungus that almost instantly destroyed the primary food source for the majority population. The after-effects of The Famine continued until 1851. Although much is unrecorded, between 500,000 and one million people are thought to have died from starvation and disease. As many as two million became refugees and almost as many again are thought to have fled to Britain, America, Canada and Australia.

A memorial to the Great Hunger can be seen in the north-east corner of St Stephen's Green. It was cast by Edward Delaney using the lost-wax bronze casting method, the main technique he used between 1960 and 1970.