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Ireland's Great Hunger Museum, Hamden, CT

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Ireland's Great Hunger Museum

A Hamden museum on the Irish Famine that presents it through visual art.

3011 Whitney Avenue, Hamden, CT · Hamden, CT

About Ireland's Great Hunger Museum

Ireland's Great Hunger Museum sits on the campus of Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. It examines the Famine of 1845 to 1852 and its effects through paintings, drawings, and other images. The collection includes works by 19th-century and contemporary Irish and Irish-American artists. The museum also holds literature and artifacts connected to the period. A separate group plans to open a new museum in Fairfield to display the collection.

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