Cleveland's Memorial to the Great Irish Famine

The Irish Famine of the late 1840's ended up killing about a million people and forcing another million to leave the country. Many ancestors of Clevelanders left directly or indirectly because of this cataclysm. There is a beautiful memorial to "An Gorta Mor," the Great Hunger, on the banks of the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland's Flats, right under the Detroit Superior Bridge and across from the Flat Iron Cafe. My Lakeland colleague Paula Blackman did the bronze figure of a mother and her children on the river-facing side of this monument.