IPC Presents: Deer Island Famine Memorial Mass
Irish Pastoral Centre 540 Gallivan Boulevard, Dorchester, MA, United States +1 moreThe Great Hunger Memorial is a 16-foot tall Celtic cross located on Deer Island in Boston Harbor. In the late 1840s, the Boston Corporation erected a hospital on the island. Irish immigrants, who arrived on coffin ships, were quarantined there. The memorial commemorates the 850 people who died on the island between 1847 and 1850,...