Images from Quinnipiac University Famine Museum, Connecticut, USA

Largest collection of art on the Great Famine from the artworks of Quinnipiac University Museum. Also see short film introduced by Dr. John L. Lahey by clicking on:

http://www.historicalballinrobe.com/page/one_museums_reaction_to_the_great_hunger_through_their_art_works

Detail from Daniel McDonald's painting 1847
"Burying the Child" by Lilian Davidson
Detail from painting by Daniel McDonald - 1847
Stained-glass panel from the Museum. Notice the single storey cottages, the stone walls, the potato ridges, the woman digger and the potato plant.
Not yet known - can anybody help out with the artist's name?

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