The only painting known to depict a scene from The Great Hunger will feature in a new exhibition opening this week at Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University.
The show, “In the Lion’s Den: Daniel MacDonald, Ireland and Empire,” will feature the work of artist Daniel MacDonald, whose painting “An Irish Peasant Family Discovering the Blight of their Store” is the one known painting done on the topic of the famine, which devastated Ireland from 1845-1852.
Grace Brady, the executive director of the museum, told the New Haven Register: “So to have that travel from Ireland to here is a big deal for us, not only as a museum but to be able to show it to the public along with the other works by MacDonald.
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Genocide during the slavery of the Irish by England. Millions of us are descendants of those who escaped The Famine and made ta new home in the U.S. and Canada.
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