Bones of Irish children were found 170 years after they died on a “coffin ship” en route to Canada in 1847. Vertebra and jaw bones were identified among the.
Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern was in New York last December to present of a sculpture to the United Nations. Entitled
Arrival, the bronze piece was created by John Behan, Ireland’s foremost sculptor, and was installed on the north lawn of the UN headquarters. Situated only yards from the East River, and standing 23 feet high, it depicts a nineteenth-century emigrant ship with its passengers disembarking. It is a companion piece to Behan’s famine ship sculpture, which site on the west coast of Ireland, in Murrisk, County Mayo.
The brainchild of Martin Cullen, T.D. and Barry McGrath,
Chairman of the Office of Public Works, the sculpture is designed to celebrate