Project Background

Title: "An Gorta Mór" - The West Australian Irish Famine Memorial
Memorial to the Great Irish Famine 1845 - 52.

Project Specification:

The project consists of the following:

• A Centrepiece Bronze Sculpture: “Uaigneas” mounted on a granite base, trimmed with a bronze Celtic Knotwork motif and a bronze dedication plaque.

• This sculpture is set in a Celtic Spiral Labyrinth composed of green and red polished granite ‘meditation paths’ with the Famine Prayer inlaid into the surface.

• The Celtic Spiral Labyrinth is formed with two contrasting colours of granite: Green Granite for Ireland and Red Granite for Australia.

• The Famine Prayer is inlaid with polished black granite into the red granite path.

• The granite is 20mm thick with a polished top surface and has been professionally laid to falls onto an 8 meter diameter reinforced concrete disc to engineering specifications.

• A painted steel Didactic Interpretive Panel has been installed on the west side of the Memorial.

•  2 No. in-ground lights are set into the granite base of the bronze sculpture.

  
  

Location: Market Square Park - Subiaco WA, Australia

Client: Western Australian Irish Famine Commemoration (WAIFC) Website

Date Completed: 2017

Project Materials: Bronze, Granite

Project size: 8m diamater with Over-life-size Figure

Dedication: by President of Ireland Michael D Higgins 9th October, 2017

Dedication Speech: by President Higgins at the unveiling of an Irish Famine Memorial, Subiaco, Perth, Australia Watch here

Speech: by President Higgins at the unveiling of an Irish Famine Memorial, Subiaco, Perth, Australia: Read Here