Part of the Famine Memorial presented to the City of Dublin in 1997, the statures were designed and crafted by Dublin sculptor Rowan Gillespie.
To commemorate the Great Irish Famine 1845-1849, during which approximately 1 million people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland.
The cause of Famine is blamed on a potato disease commonly known as potato blight. Although blight ravaged potato crops throughout Europe during the 1840s, it had a huge impact of human cost in Ireland, where one third of the population was entirely dependent on the potato for food.