Fodor's Expert Review Boston Irish Famine Memorial

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Dedicated in 1998 with this memorial and a small park, artist Robert Shure's two sculptures—one depicting an anguished family on the shores of Ireland, the other a determined and hopeful Irish family stepping ashore in Boston—are a tribute to the rich immigrant past of this most Irish of American cities.

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School St. at Washington St.
Boston, Massachusetts  02108, USA

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