Montréal and Buffalo: Famine Memory in Metamorphosis

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Title
Montréal and Buffalo: Famine Memory in Metamorphosis
Abstract
The author examines two monuments located in North America and raised in memory of the victims of the Irish famine of the 1840s. The Black Rock (1859) is located in Montreal, at the entrance to the Victoria Bridge, while the Western New York Famine Commemoration (1997), which was inspired by Montreal's Black Rock, is located in Buffalo, New York. In both cases, the megaliths were erected at strategic locations, Montreal's on the north bank of the St. Lawrence River and Buffalo's on the eastern shore of Lake Erie. Both these water bodies were crossed by many Irish in their immigration to and settlement in North America.
Publication
Etudes Irlandaises
Volume
Vol. 28
Issue
no. 2
Pages
99-118
Date
Autumn 2003
Language
en
Citation
O’Brien, Kathleen. “Montréal and Buffalo: Famine Memory in Metamorphosis.” Etudes Irlandaises Vol. 28, no. 2 (Autumn 2003): 99–118.
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