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New York, New York: the Irish Hunger Memorial is located in Battery Park City, a short walk west from the World Trade Center site. It looks like a sloping hillside with low stone walls and a roofless cabin on one side and a polished wall with lit (or white) lines on the other three sides. See .
Sligo (/ ˈ s l aɪ ɡ oʊ / SLY-goh; Irish: Sligeach [ˈʃl̠ʲɪɟəx], meaning 'abounding in shells') is a coastal seaport and the county town of County Sligo, Ireland, within the western province of Connacht.
The then Mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, unveiled Ireland's national monument to the 69th Infantry Regiment (aka The Fighting 69th) and Michael Corcoran in Ballymote on 22 August 2006. At the foot of the monument is a piece of steel from the World Trade Center in New York, which was attacked on September 11, 2001. The steel was ...
The Irish state has officially approved the following list of national monuments in County Sligo. In the Republic of Ireland, a structure or site may be deemed to be a "national monument", and therefore worthy of state protection, if it is of national importance. If the land adjoining the monument is essential to protect it, this land may also ...
Carrowkeel is a cluster of passage tombs in south County Sligo, Ireland.They were built in the 4th millennium BC, during the Neolithic era. [2] The monuments are on the Bricklieve Hills (An Bricshliabh, 'the speckled hills'), overlooking Lough Arrow, and are sometimes called the Bricklieve tombs. [3]
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum (also known as the 9/11 Memorial & Museum) is a memorial and museum that are part of the World Trade Center complex, in New York City, created for remembering the September 11, 2001, attacks, which killed 2,977 people, and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six. [4]
At 1,776 feet tall, One World Trade Center is the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. For fourth-generation ironworker, Tom Hickey, One World Trade Center consumed his life. He is one of ...
The Rosses Point Peninsula (Irish: An Ros) [2] is a small peninsula in the centre of Sligo Bay, County Sligo, Ireland. The peninsula shares its name with the village of Rosses Point, a popular seaside resort located on the peninsula's southern coast, roughly 7.5 km (5 mi) west of Sligo town. Rosses Point has been inhabited for millennia.