Also known at the Potato Famine when successive crops failed and about one million Irish died, many others emigrating.
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The Murrisk Millennium Peace Park...
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...where this very moving sculpture named the Coffin Ship is displayed.
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It was unveiled in 1997 to mark the 150th anniversary of the Irish Famine.
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We saw another monument at Salthill...
...with views that emigrants might have seen as they left their homes for a new life.
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