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Background
The city of Boston, the capital of Massachusetts, the largest financial centre on the east coast of America, New York
A British, Boston its brick houses, narrow lanes and lots of greenery reminds London.Cape Cod at 100 km deep Atlantic, and his national beaches pristine beauty of the famous dunes.
Memorial in memory of hunger.
Irish American communities Boston decided to erect a memorial in memory of their predkov-irlandtsev, found refuge in the United States during the so-called Great Famine.This scourge afflicting Ireland 150 years ago, upolovinilo population.A million of its citizens died of malnutrition and disease, and two million Irish to leave their homes and chose to seek refuge from hunger elsewhere.
Over five years Great Famine, from 1845 to 1850 in the port of Boston landed a 40,000 Irish refugees.Boston, and subsequently left the main gates of the Irish emigration to America, the last explosion which occurred in 1947, when the Boston profit 37,000 people from Ireland.Memorial-mnogofigurnaya compositions, reflecting the tragedy of the refugees and their hopes for a new life in a new land, will be installed in the central part of town.
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