Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum of Fairfield

10/06/2026

Many thanks to the Diocese of Bridgeport’s Fairfield County Catholic and Emily Clark for highlighting the exhibit “In God We Trust: The Knights of Columbus and the American Experience” and the sculptures on loan from Quinnipiac University, in conjunction with Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum of Fairfield.

Read Emily Clark's Article: https://www.bridgeportdiocese.org/fcc-issues/july-august-2026-grandparents-issue-volume-43-number-7/

Explore how the history of the United States over its 250 years helped shape the founding and development of an American-born Catholic institution in the exhibit “In God We Trust: The Knights of Columbus and the American Experience.” Learn more: https://www.michaelmcgivneycenter.org/.../in-god-we-trust/

09/29/2026

09/17/2026

The Staten Island Famine Monument Unveiling is Sunday September 20th and there are still seats available - Contact [email protected] to secure your spot.

08/27/2026

08/13/2026

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07/23/2026

Historic County Leitrim Society of New York parade banner finds a new home at The Kiltyclogher Heritage Centre & Sean MacDiarmada Homestead!

Please join us on Friday, August 14th @ 1:00 PM at Kiltyclogher Heritage Center for this memorable occasion.
Kiltyclogher Heritage Centre & Sean MacDiarmada Homestead
Leitrim Tourism

07/14/2026

The Famine Remembrance Park (Irish: Páirc Chuimhneacháin An Ghorta), also known as Bully's Acre, is a memorial site in Cleaghmore, Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland, functioning as the unmarked burial ground for victims of the Great Irish Famine who perished in the Ballinasloe Workhouse between 1845 and 1852, as well as in subsequent years.

Landscaped in the 1990s and formally dedicated in 1997 by the Ballinasloe Historical Society and Ballinasloe Urban Council, the park honors the famine dead through engineered landscaping by Gerry Cleary and sculptural elements including a dedication monument by John O’Connor and an urn monument by Helen Comerford.

Inscriptions on the monuments evoke remembrance, such as "Lest we forget / An Ghorta Mór / 1845 – 1848 / May they rest in peace / all who lie buried here" on the memorial monument and "In memoriam / in memory / i gcuimhneas" on the urn.

Photographs by Emily Mark-FitzGerald.

07/13/2026

'La Gaeilge' will be held Saturday October 3rd from 8:30-4:30pm at the Gaelic American Club, 74 Beach Road, Fairfield CT - All are Welcome!