Windows

Like everywhere, Ireland has got loads of windows throughout its cities, above is one from Galway (West Ireland). I like to look at them while walking down the streets, especially when it shows an artistic or antique side. One thing I noticed here, the numbers : they are displayed in big size, which is particularly unusual for me but I like that style. I might post others windows later on...

The Famine Monument

The Great Famine (Irish: An Gorta Mór lit: The Great Hunger or An Drochshaol, lit: The Bad Life) was a period of starvation, disease and mass emigration between 1845 and 1852 during which the population of Ireland was reduced by 20 to 25 percent. Approximately one million of the population died and a million more emigrated from Ireland's shores. The proximate cause of famine was a potato disease commonly known as late blight. Although blight ravaged potato crops throughout Europe during the 1840s, the impact and human cost in Ireland—where a third of the population was entirely dependent on the potato for food—was exacerbated by a host of political, social and economic factors which remain the subject of historical debate.

Source : [Wikipedia.org]