Broken Heart Memorial 27651649807_544df2e5b1_b Due Date: 30th January

History

Memorial for people to had to leave Ireland in the famine of 1845-49

Influences Irish Identity

Impacted people and how the identify

Connects to Irish Diaspora

Project Ideas

Sculpture

Text

Illustration

Made out of modeling material

A historical document written about memorial

Pencil drawing with some text

Blueprints to make memorial

Use sculpture as a display

and have some text, describing the memorial

Important Information

Made by Maria Pizutti (CSIS Wiki)

commissioned by Gerry Barrett (Edward Hoildings, Galway) (Source CSIS Wiki)

Was made to commemorate the people who used the area as a holding station prior to emigration (Source CSIS Wiki)

My Question

What does the Broken heart Memorial commemorate and what was the consequences of what it commemorates

Where is it?

It is located in lower mallow street,limerick (source Google)

Display Layout

Use black card as base

Make bits of text pop up

Enquiry Question: What does the broken heart memorial commemorate and what were the consequences of what it commemorates

Talk about Irish Diaspora and Irish Identity

Include Reflection, credits (refer to handout for more)

Irish Diaspora (Source wikipedia: cross checked with Ireland Roots &

Are Irish people or their descendents who live outside the island of Ireland.

In the 21st Century, it was estimated nearly 80 million people claimed some Irish descent

Emigration from Ireland goes back as far as the 1700, since then between 9 and 10 million people have emigrated from Ireland

This led to people claiming identities such as Irish American the The Irish diaspora is a consequence of Irish emigration

Irish Identity is a hot topic especially in northern Ireland

Go into how identities are powerful

Irish Identity

Due to mass emigration during the Famine people fled to other countries resulting in people claiming identities such as Irish American

Make this very little or you will get bogged down

Massachusetts is the most Irish state with about 20% claiming some sort of Irish descent according to data gotten from the US Census Bureau bu the boston globe

Source Evaluation

Wesley Johnston website was a fairly objective source giving the in depth information of the famine. I liked how it was organized neatly.

Ireland Roots was a website I used to crosscheck wikipedia with, they gave the same information with different words

Wikipedia was a objective source that gave me lots of information, I cross checked just in case